Tore apart my friends 85 GS this weekend, only took about an hour to get the motor out.

Man I can see why you guys like them! So much easier then secondgens. Just a few wires, fuel lines, throttle cables, and bolts and its out!

Sooo my quest now! A cheap project First gen! Ill start localy trying to find one .

 

I wanted and still want a FB.

 

hmm, an hour for your first fb? Not too shabby, My only complaint is the damn banjo bolt on the oil cooler. Other than that its a breeze.

 

wait, did you do YOUR CAR or YOUR FRIENDS CAR, cause the title says your car then u said yer friends car, lol sorry im a tad confused

 

think he's saying that this was the first time he's tore apart a first gen....

 

Ya that banjo bolt nearly killed me i needed to take off the whole oil cooler cut off my old oil cooler line the put the 23 mm wrench to it hammered it on good and full out jumped onto the wrench to get it to pop lose... thats after about two and a half hours of trying to get it from above and below the car.... annoying

 

Glad he has a Beehive, DAMN.
Even on my second get, it only took a few minutes.

 

that reminds me, i need to track down a FC oil cooler...

 

Are you talking about taking the engine out? "An hour" isn't really a reasonable time for "tearing apart" anything, except maybe the pieces of the engine if you have a wreckless cause for abandonment. I can swap race engines in an hour, and that's being hot-to-trot, and having done it several times. Of course, there's less **** to take off in a racecar, and everythings easier to get to. It takes me the better part of an hour just to take all the bullshit off a street engine/car so I can start taking the mounting hardware off.

 

I just gave one away.

*SMACK*

 

why FC?

 

Oh and to the race guy.
I did this in 35 degree weather outside, on jackstands with someone who had never torn apart a rx7 before. I had no air tools, no lift, no previous experiance other then my second gens. We striped the engine bay from completly stock and had the motor out of the car within an hour. I think we did a good job, considering it was the first time either of us tore down a first gen.

Cpt Gloval has a 86 13b in his GSL SE. Dunno why he needs one though, mabey they are easier to connect or something??

 

i've got an FC engine waiting to go into the SE. the line fittings on the stock oil cooler are cracked and leak about a quart a week when the car runs.

 

want an FB cooler? the only thing thats different by the looks is the mounting brackets, and i think FC is aluminum not steel... sorry i need to keep my FC cooler i just got for my FB.

 

that is pretty much the only difference. i do believe the line fittings are arranged slightly different, too. how much do you want for it, shipped? are the fittings cracked at all?

 

yea the fittings are slightly different but no big deal since i have to get new lines anyways. I plan on doing a beehive and air/oil cooler setup on my 85... not sure what we'd sell it for. I'll take a pic of it tommorow hopefully and get it to ya...just shoot me a pm to remind me. It is used and slightly bent, so if you plan on making a show car you might want to look somewhere else but it does the job.

sorry about the thread hijack

 

lol. no way. i plan on driving the **** out of my car once it's back on the road. i'll shoot you a pm.