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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 12:16 PM
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How much HP in a stock 85 GSL

Well like the title said how much HP in a stock 85 GSL.
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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 12:31 PM
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There is a wonderful, magical button. It looks like this:

USE IT!
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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 12:32 PM
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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 12:39 PM
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Anyone?
You're one lazy son of a bitch, aintcha?
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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 01:01 PM
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I did search and I posted that at the same time as you did
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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 01:10 PM
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Hey untamed. We don't mean to come off as ******** but seriously we get these easy to find questions ALL THE TIME!! In all honesty it is very easy to find this answer. That is why the SEARCH button has been addressed in a previous post.
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Hey untamed. We don't mean to come off as ********
Speak for yourself.
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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 01:34 PM
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Speak for yourself.
Your good at it
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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 01:43 PM
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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 01:45 PM
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Stock 12A's were rated at 100HP. Using the aforementioned search button would have easily revealed this.
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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 01:47 PM
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100 hp rated at factory.. god its called google, im a newb hear for cripes sake but i have a clue. look in the1st gen faq section for future questions before consulting the experts here (not me of course)
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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Rogue_Wulff
Stock 12A's were rated at 100HP. Using the aforementioned search button would have easily revealed this.
As i said before I did search the 1st gen forums, and couldn't find anything, maybe I was using the wrong words to search with.
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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 06:13 PM
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Good specs page for all model RX7's

http://www.rx7.org/public/rx7specs.html
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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 06:33 PM
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Wow, I'm a newB also... guess I will keep my "stupid" questions to myself. Sheesh!
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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by FCKing1995
Good specs page for all model RX7's

http://www.rx7.org/public/rx7specs.html
Thanks
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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 09:46 PM
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Wow, I'm a newB also... guess I will keep my "stupid" questions to myself. Sheesh!
Sounds like a good idea, I didn't know it would cause a problem.
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Old Jul 11, 2006 | 10:46 PM
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Wow. I thought we were rated at 105 lbs/ft of torque. Woohoo an extra 2 ft/lbs LOL
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Old Jul 12, 2006 | 12:23 AM
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Ouch, poor noob get raped! Couldn't we be a little more gentle? How about, welcome to the forum, just type in the search box and see what you get or look in the faq section up top.
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Old Jul 12, 2006 | 12:25 AM
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So, 100hp, you get a noticeable improvement with header and exhaust. Messing with the carb will give a little improvement, some drill holes in the air cleaner or run a dryer duct for a faux cai. Weight reduction helps alot also,
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Old Jul 12, 2006 | 01:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Untamed_RX-7
Well like the title said how much HP in a stock 85 GSL.
Welcome to the forum and some of the characters who inhabit the darkside.

Your question has been basically answered, 100hp for the totally stock US model 12A engine. This is the detuned version to satisfy emission controls. The rest of the world received the engine with up to 115hp.

This power is at the flywheel, what you get at the rear wheels is about 82hp.

Keeping to the stock engine and improving with bolt-on and take-off components you can get an extra 50hp. Add a small turbo gets you another 50hp if the engine is in good condition. Now if you rebuild the engine with larger ports then it is a different ballpark, up to 300hp or 400hp if you go turbo. Your car may end up not street useable or legal, but it is an easy way of spending money without effort.
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Old Jul 12, 2006 | 01:48 AM
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I find that most new poeple cant just use the search button(the pull down) try using anadvanced search to better your reasults.
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Old Jul 12, 2006 | 02:37 AM
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Welcome to the forum, and the Dark Side. We are generally a good bunch, but on occasion we have our bad days answering the same newb questions over and over. We really don't mean to chase you away. We have over 1000 pages of threads and occasionally a question gets asked that has not been answered somewhere in there, but it can usually be found using the search function. Unfortunately, with so many pages, searches can produce a lot of garbage. I have found that somedays it pays to wade through all of it because I still learn something, even if it wasn't what I was looking for.

Somedays I just sit and read to see if I can find some little tidbit that I didn't know and if these old brain cells manage to remember it, I can pass it along. Doing so has resulted in a rather high post count, but I can't say I'm smarter than many others with smaller counts.

Now that you have recieved your first flame, and it was a bit overly harsh, hang around, you will come find the forum can be a 2nd home, quite useful, informative and occasionally stupidly humourous.
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Old Jul 12, 2006 | 02:38 AM
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So, 100hp, you get a noticeable improvement with header and exhaust. Messing with the carb will give a little improvement, some drill holes in the air cleaner or run a dryer duct for a faux cai. Weight reduction helps alot also,
weight reduction adds power? sounds like a typical honda drivers point of view... heh, just joking, i know what you meant, just messing with ya
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Old Jul 12, 2006 | 10:08 AM
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I don't mean to be controversial here, but isn't the official rating for a stock 85 GSL 105 HP, not 100 HP? I think "newb" questions about "stock" questions that the "experts" have answered "a thousand times" are a good idea, a lot of times the "stock" answers aren't quite right!

Ray
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Old Jul 12, 2006 | 03:12 PM
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^^Nope, officially rated at 101HP.
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