hi ok i am thinking that my dad is starting to like rx7s alot now. but my dad would like to know what frame does the rx7s have?


Damien

 

frame? its a unibody

 

hehehe, there is a sort of half frame built into the unibody but it is not a seperate frame like a truck or old 70's style car.

 

it has a frame made of surger and spice and everything nice...its a unibody

 

thanks can the rx7 be made into a convertible

 

yes sir it can...it can be made into an airplane if you got the time and the money

there is a few pics of the convertible 1st gen...they made them owners made them but if you have a good car i would not try this..get a cheep parts car for a few bucks and do it to that car

cheers PaTricK

 

It's been done, not really recommended.

Easier to just get an FC convertible, or a Miata if you don't want to drive a tank. A 1.6l Miata feels almost exactly like a Series 1 RX-7 to drive.

 

can, but only if you're exceptionally good metal worker and welder.

 

There were a few (very well-engineered) convertible conversions done in 1981 or so by a California company (you could order these cars from the dealer if I remember correctly). The car was called the Pacific Avatar RX7.

Pacific Avatar did not stop at simply chopping off the roof either. These cars were also powered by a turbo'd 12A producing somewhere north of 160hp (vs. 101hp for the stock 12A at the time) and went zero-to-sixty in around 7 seconds--- not overly quick by today's standards but faster than most cars built back then, including the Corvette and Porsche 928 of the same era.

Of course, the price for one of these in 1981 hovered around 40K--- four times as much a a stock 7 sold for. By comparison, a Ferrari 308GTS of the same vintage was around 45K.

Needless to say, not many Pacific Avatars were sold. But if you could find one now...

 

I tried to make mine a boat....it was brilliant...truly it was...

 

lol i started a thread in the lounge about turning a 1st gen into a speed boat...are you being for real or mocking me......if so lets see some pics woooot

 

for real...check my old thread about turning my 7 into an amphibious vehicle...during some flooding in jan this year, I rather haplessly drove my 7 into literally a lake...so 'no' to actually doing fabrication and 'yes' to figuratively making it a boat

 

ah yes i remember that thread...so you got it working right?

 

for the most part..turns out I have some ignition problems to solve...nothing a set of new coils, plugs , etc won't fix

 

 

http://www.mazspeed.com/JeffB3.jpg

 

wow that looks cool thanks