jlopez82

Okay, so on the way to work last week this total dipshit in front of me (on a one way access road and around a sharp curve by the way) decides he should make a "u-turn" in the middle of the frickin road. I tried to switch lanes, braked, but it was too late and as he proceeded to acheive the world's slowest u-turn I nail him in the his rear driver-side Q-panel (his fault thank God). Long story short, my car is jacked up front but the motor and tranny are untouched. As we all know the work/money situation is tight when you are in college and on your own two feet so I opted to buy this (help me out here) GXL/GTU(?) no motor/tranny for sixty bucks, straight body, never wrecked and with less rolling miles than my comatosed-*** FC. So two questions: (1) I am more than sure there is nothing special I have to do for this swap besides swap my motor/tranny, ecu, diff, driveshaft, new hi-flow fuel pump. I also plan to put all the "better peices" from my old FC on the new FC. Anything at all I should look into that I may be not thinking about? and question (2) What is my new FC? It has four pots up front, non-ABS, five lug, two seat, manual rack, (this is the part that gets me) electronic sports suspension- which will be tossed for world famous racing beat/AGX combo. But seriously none of that points me in the right direction. Help me out!

P.S.- I am not stupid enough to put a good motor with less than 20K into another rx7 without porting that mother first. A friend is doing a good sized street port for dirt cheap and I am excited at what my rx7 comrades are telling me to look forward to. I can't wait, but, how different does it feel? Where does the power start/stop? How much power should I expect? I'm hearing with the my mods it should be between 45-65 hp, is that true? I thought only 20% (50 hp or so) at the most. And besides a new hi-flow fuel pump, is it necessary to upgrade to bigger secondaries? When I do my T04E upgrade (.52/1.0) I'm doing injectors but whats the best? Help me out, and you will have done a good thing. Thank you endlessly.

jlopez82

Come On! Help me out here, please!!

bigdv519

iTrader: (3)

OK, ok...So your doing a chassis swap. If you got the time, I would install custom ground straps and all new bushings. Thats about all I can think of now. Sorry, I dont kow what kind of car you have.

"P.S.- I am not stupid enough to put a good motor with less than 20K into another rx7 without porting that mother first."

If i have this correct, your going to disassemble a new engine...to port it.

rs_1101

my thoughts exactly. at some point youve got to sit down and ask yourself 'im scared of doing a motor transplant, should i REALLY be worried about porting my motor?

Jrodwnc

if it aint broke...........dont break it

jlopez82

Im not scared about the swap, done plenty of motor swaps, just no rotaries. I bought my car with a rebuilt motor and was just waiting to find an excuse to port it. Didn't want to plow into some moron to achieve it, but swap=time to port

Jaiyurai

iTrader: (30)

to PORT a rotary, you're basically doing a rebuild on the motor. dont bother unless you have the money.

jlopez82

I know that, Should I do it, is the question. Im slightly concerned about fuel enrichment. I have a couple buddies saying not to worry about fuel until I take another step after the port. Like I said it will be done cheap.

kiwi

wait, u have a rebuilt engine and u want to rip it apart again to port it? what exactly is the point of that?

nice find on the chassis though.

jlopez82

POWER GAIN! HELLO! With the mods I already have the power gain should be worth it. Especially for the cheap price, and the motor coming out of one car and going into another, its a good time to send my 150k tranny for a rebuild and the lonely motor gets a port, make sense? Im just wondering about the fuel.