MAX-IMAL

Hello I'm new to this forum, I want to buy an FB as a proyect car, rally purpose, I already own an FC n/a but that's my daily driver, beside that I like the look of the FB, my question is what's the difference between models and would like to know the upgrades to the 12A engine like weight reduction and all that stuff.

Thx

Max.

inittab

Wecome to the 1st Gen forum Max!

Check out this page, it pretty much covers it all:
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/S.../firstgen.html

Again, welcome to the forum and good luck with your project car!

Blitz0309

Welcome to our little niche. Weight reduction really just comes down to how serious you want to get. You can pull out all the goodies down to a bare block in your engine bay, you can pull out your spare tire, jack ect... You can replace your glass with a lighter lexan type material. You can chip off the sound deadening material, you can get fiberglass parts, take out the dash and make a wood, or buy a cf one. Its just how much weight you want to loose.

MAX-IMAL

Great!! Thank you.
What about upgrades to the 12A engine b/c i don't want to swap a 13b, i want to try to keep it original and yet take the most power out of it.

851stgen12a

Start by porting the motor, a 12A with a good street port will make close to 180hp with all the bolt on goodies...

80 project

Does a street port require removing the motor?

Mr BiG G

yep....u gotta disassemble the entire motor port the intake and exhaust ports and then put the motor back together....well worth the time/money spent!

timmya2

so i guess that leaves street porting out of the questions huh :P


jk

MAX-IMAL

Ok, street port it is, i'm gonna rebuild anyway, the thing is that i'm gonna participate in a rally cross country race that is held in Mexico It's called The Panamerican Race and its about 3069.8 Km of race across the country, so that's why i'm rebuilding.

CheddaKing

A GSL-SE comes witha 13B stock and is Fuel injected... so your not restricted to the 12a. You get more torque and HP from the start with a 13b, so that might be worth considering(and you can still streetport the hell out of it)

MAX-IMAL

But i'm looking a 1979-1980 i don't think it came with fuel injected engine, beside its just a classic and old car race like a jaguar 1953, Mercedez 1950, Studenbaker 1945 and cars like that.

CheddaKing

Didn't know you were looking for a series 1, so yea, your stuck with a 12a if thats your choice.