Hello everyone. Im in the process of building a 79rx7 drag car. Its tubbed, 4-link, 28x11.5 slicks, pinto rack, 2nd gen front strut asemblies, completly gutted, 12 point cage. I removed both bumpers and plan on leaving them off. The rear bumper will be replaced simply enough with thin sheet metal but the front of the car is going to be a little more dificult.
Have any of you permanently removed the bumpers and what was your solution for filling the void where the bumper used to be? Are ther any companies that offer a front spoiler that replaces the stock bumper? My goal is to have this car at 2000 pounds, ready to race. Any suggestions whould be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Nate

 

lol 2000lbs is a EZ goal what type of motor are you going to run?

 

im doing sheet metal over the rear. and if your looking for a diff front for the car look try www.rx7mall.com or some other sites that sell body kits or you can use front bummers off of other cars and fab mounts

 

Mariah has a front air dam that replaces the front bumper.

 

Im using a NASCAR Buick v6 from the mid 90's and most likely a powerglide trans.
Im going to run the motor normally aspirated with NOS for now but I am piecing enough stuff together to convert over to twin turbos. Im having a lot of fum building this car. I had picked up the Buick motor real cheap and although I dont know much about rx7's, it seemed like the perfect chassis for the v6. I am realy impressed with the quality of the car, compared to the american cars I usually work on.I guess you can only realy see how well they are put together by cutting them appart!
I am the worst body guy in the world so I am dredding tring to fab my own front air dam/bumper. Keep the advise coming and thanks for the replies.

Nate

 

what are you doing with the stock motor? lol dont say you took it out to put the v6 in it... errrr bad new member... the 89 90 eclipse front bumper will go on it without much mods there is a guy that just post his car on here yellow f-ing 7 or something like that is the name of the thread it cant be to many pages backmaybe 1 or 2

 

tnttimber you have a PM

 

Im getting stones thrown at me from all angles on this project but what can I say, I like to build stuff that is diferent from everything else on the block. My friends chastise me for building non-american and then I catch flack from the Mazda guys for not going rotary. Oh well! I guess Ill have to race evereyone to find out whos crazy

 

if you built the rotary you would love it more than a push rod motor look at some videos of a 3 rotor or a 4 rotor

 

Just look at some videos of directfreaks 13b..... 500+ horsepower if I recall correctly. Or there is always Robert of rotaryshack as well, making 680 rwhp with a 12a..... I would be more proud to say "Yeah, my 1.1 liter just stomped all over you 5 liter (or bigger)."

Also, you're going to catch hella flack here for non rotary motor swaps.

 

i think hes got more than that now 700+ something cant remember the numbers its like 730 maybe?

 

457 @ 18 lbs of boost on pump gas
480 @ 21 lbs of boost on c-16

but yeah hes got a faast *** car and a sleeper too!

 

Oh, well regardless, that is tons of power for a 1.3 liter. And extremely fast.

 

I got the Buick motor for so cheap that I couldnt resist putting it in a car. The rx7 seemed like a good choice, I want it to run in the 7.50 range. Please give me some more input on the bumper situation.

 

man, dont listen them. ive been a rotor nut going on 16 years and i still would like to put a grand national motor in one of my first gens. i think it would freakin fly and be a little more reliable and have better fuel economy than a fully tweeked rotary. i know b/c of the FD i had. but, i can't seem to make myself quit spending money on these little bastards. so im starting my GSL-SE project here in the next few weeks. after i get out of school, im either gonna build the bridge i have sitting in my shop or sell all the stuff i have for it and build a peripheral port. my friend had one 13 years ago and we delivered pizzas in it at domino's. 30 minutes or less the cool thing was when people would call back up to the store and either be pissed off about it or asking questions like "what the hell kinda car was that guy driving? that thing sounded mean as ****." ahhhh.....the memories from my youth.

 

In one of my cars I bought it had the rea taken off and cut, and shaped aluminum was fit into the gap.Looks real nice too. I would say for the front why not try going all fiberglass???