Solo Car Build: X Prepared RX-7

Andy McKee’s RX-7 has gone through several classes, wining at every stage. It’s now a 350hp, 2000lb. winged and very fast  beast.

Andy McKee's X Prepared 1993 RX-7 has spent most of its life as a dedicated SCCA Solo competition vehicle, getting more extreme along the way. As it sits now, prepped to the X Prepared rules, very little of the car is as it was when it rolled out of the factory in Japan. But every change was made with a single purpose in mind: make it faster.

This particular RX-7 has a storied history of winning. It was originally built as an A Street Prepared car in the mid-'90s by Craig Nagler and Tri-Point Motorsports, which went on to campaign Mazdas in the World Challenge Championships. Nagler won the 1996 Solo National Championship in ASP. McKee bought the car in 2004 and took it to Super Street Modified in the first year the class existed, where he won three National Championship in eight years (in the 11 years the SM2/SSM class has been in existence, RX-7s have won nine times; Erik Strelnieks (3) Carter Thompson (2) and Dan Chadwick are the other winners). Then in 2012, McKee decided to take the car to XP...