And if they want a Rotary eXperiment 7 they'll buy....

but like I said, too tired to rant right now.. maybe later. Till then keep reading my sig and user title.
[Bad day, trying not to be mean right now]

 

I happen to like my FC either way.

This thread will end up being a beating of a dead horse. So I'm not bothering posting my opinion.

 

Agreed, it's a car nothing more nothing less. Is it ugly..hell yes, but alot of us have ridden something ugly just cause it/they looked fun.

 

Bahaha agreed.

 

I'm feeling better now Let's see.....

Well - to some people anyway. I've put more time, energy and pain into my cars than anything else in my life. So ya know - I get kinda attached ^_-
Ugly body kits? Slammed? etc.. I just go "blah, looks bad/anti-functional" - but it doesn't fundamentally change what the car is.. Like some things..

If you live your car-life black and white, number by number. Yes you can haz more powas from a V8 for similar weight [until the 16X anyway..... XD] - it's just that I don't live that way, and I don't like cars to be treated as "nothing more, but something less" [Yes that's not exactly what you typed, but that's the implication of a V8 swap] ..even my poor beatup old Nissan Pulsar NX I loved for what it was. [1.6L, computer speakers+inverter+iPod, T-tops, 4-seater, woefully powerless]

Perhaps too it's the way my car behaves sometimes: Almost every time it acts up, I've been working on another car of mine - it's like it's crying for attention by breaking something on itself. I am fairly convinced that it really has some sort of jealousy.. It's like a living thing, like a kid.. It drinks gas, needs its oil changed, it spits coolant when it doesn't like it, it craps out the exhaust, and it runs around - sings when it's happy. It doesn't need a heart transplant to be happy - I love it for what it is. I doubt your parents told the doctor to rip out your heart to put a high speed pump in, and shoot you full of steroids.

I can't change your actions, I can only try to influence them.. "Why do you need a V8 swap?" "Why can't you build a rotary?" "Why not get a Supra?" etc..

btw, the Supra thing... They're very similar looking - there's even that old body kit that makes the FC look exactly like a Supra on the front.. Is there something fundamentally wrong with that car too? It seems like it would be easier to do a V8 swap on that... Piston-Piston.. Or A different straight-6+turbo[s]..

 

Most v-8 swaps are for more power. Can you make power out of the rotory? Sure. But parts are harder to find, cost way more, and well, that 454 has a way higher hp starting point. Guy could probably put a lot more hp to it now, whereas for you go get over 500hp on a rotory, very tough, without tons and tons of cash.
Not to mention that 454 is a lot more reliable with its high hp.

Would I drive it, **** yea, would I say its a beauty, nope, I love my rotory, I wouldn't mind having that 454 7 sitting next to my stock 7 in my driveway anyday. One track/fun car, one original 7 too... Best of both worlds with 2, 7's

Bet my neighbors would love to hear that beast starting everyday at 6am LOL.

 

lets just pretend its not there like the purple elephant in my bedroom

 

 

id appreciate that engine more in a respectable chevy, Imo putting it into a japanese car ruins the motor lol

 

lol! That too! [Though I'm not so worried about all say.. Most Camaros being swapped to electric motors or Wankels or anything ^_-]

Nate>> I'm saving that pict XD

 

I think that a guy that loves the track, would like the power to weight ratio option, hence why putting that huge motor in that feather of a car.
I wouldn't mind seeing that same motor in a nice chevy, but hey that power/weight ration could never be duplicated with no big camero, or the likes....

I wouldn't mind seeing that swapped 7 take a run down the stripe against a likewise camero with that same motor.........

I wouldnt do it if I only had that 1 7 though.

 

it doesn't matter what car you put that engine in! an all IRON big block plus the IRON transmission probably doubles the weight of the car.

or when you drop a 1500lbs drivetrain into ANY car its going to be heavy..... that Fc is probably pushing 4000lbs!

 

Still a 9 sec car no matter.
Thats a tall order on the rotory.

 

Gonna have to disagree here. 99% of v8 swaps tend to the cause the owner can't build or tune a rotary properly. They get the swap kit, toss some basic bolt-ons and that's as far as it generally goes.

 

Not all if us drive ina straight line.

 

"Ask any racer. Any real racer. It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning's winning."

 

Not my choice of engine but if I was to ever get another rx7 (been years) the rotary would most likely be the first to go haha. Nothing against them cause they were fun, but I have my ideas.

 

You do when you visit the track. I like my track cars to still be streetable/legal. Not that I have one now, sold it for a family mover lol.. Dunno if this one is though.

But 7500 is way to high a price tag anywhow.

Don't get me wrong, if I had a choice between a highly modified rotory, that had good hp numbers, and this car, it would be the rotory.
Please don't get me wrong I love the rotory and it being different.

I only posted it due to it not being a 350 swap and being a bit different with the choice of the engine swap.

 

I'm gonna have to go with what 87 t-66 said on this as well.