had a nice photo of my 79 figured I'd share

 

 

Good to know they got rotaries in Idaho We might be moving there in a few years!

 

Thank you very much!! Wish I saw your post earlier. I got the car form the original owner back in June of 2017.

 

If you spend any meaningful amount of time in there you want to cover up all those insulation batts. You don't want to be breathing that ****. Sweet car though.

 

 

That's a really clean FB. Wish I could get away with no AC, but here in Texas, it's a necessity.

 

 

Gorgeous car! Do you have a build thread for it?

 

Thank you! Yes, please read your pm

 

Been a while but blew a motor and got it rebuilt by kevinbtz

currently putting breaknin miles on it then boost time

 

What is the name of the wheel and what size? Looks really good!

 

 

My new S3

 

Looks to be in very good condition. Kilometers?

 

63000km

 

@Normjet very nice. Did you import that from the UK? It has the urethane spoiler, UK style stereo, square mirrors and FC style indicator lens on the front guards next to the RX-7 logo badge.I understood NZ delivered cars to be more similar to Australian cars in appearance (rounded mirrors, side indicators in the black body protector mould forward of the wheel).

 

Good spotting, Yes it is an import from the UK. I also believe the ports are bigger almost like a stage 2 on these models ?

 

Awesome. I love the look of the UK model. They came in different colours, like yours which is the very rare L6 paint code (Ocean Blue / Rhyl Blue) We can't import them here unfortunately.

Yes, the UK 12A on the series 3 is the same as the Aus-spec ones. They have very tall primary ports. In factory guise, they don't really make any more power, but they have more potential when you open the exhaust and modify the carburettor. I managed to get 120rwhp out of a stock s3 12A engine at 8000rpm (Dyno Dynamics figure), which is excellent. It actually made more power than my s5 13B turbo block running a modified Nikki carburettor (no turbo).

 

Oh right cool, yea it doesn’t seem anymore powerful than others I have driven, interesting that it has extractors on it but they are very small, I’ll post up pics of the engine bay when I can but it definitely needs to breath more

 

What fuelpump and exhaust did you run to manage this rwhp Greg?

 

 

^ Wow you've done well picking that one up.

 

At the time it was factory fuel pump, basic mild steel extractors to firewall, merging into single 2.5" mild steel pipe with two straight through resonators and final 2.5" straight through Magnaflow muffler. I had a electric cooling fan and Davies Craig EWP as well. I think these 2 mods would have been worth 5-10rwhp.

I have a video somewhere. It was done in 2002/2003.

After this run, I had the carburettor extensively modified with larger chokes, mechanical secondaries, rejetted and a number of other modifications, which definitely increased power further.

 

There should be photos attached