Well some of you may know, i'm not sure, but i basically lost compression on my rear rotor, my guess, big vacuum leak, along with boost creep( i was running a turboback, intake, rtek 1.7, 720cc secondaries, and walbro fuel pump, with no ported WG, i know i'm dumb but i'm young i'm learning). This weekend we finally go to swapping the motor when the famous ray crow had time in his schedule to lend a helping hand. Things wen pretty smoothly i must say, except when the Knock computer box broke( under the dash on passenger side), and the oil metering line snapped like an old person with artheritis. The first pics are the old motor, the new motor is a reman with 10k miles on it and i believe its going to have great compression just by listening to how strong the wooshes were. This isn't like a guide on how to do it just showing some fun over the weekend.

 

i see no pics...

edit** there they are

 

here go some more.

 

last batch

 

Nice man. Great pics, let us know how it runs.

 

https://www.rx7club.com/2nd-generation-specific-1986-1992-17/my-first-motor-swap-bit-scared-515223/

mine is better...

you didnt even take the hood off? and you dropped it in long block...wish i could do that. i had to do it in short and then put stuff on later cause i am waiting on gaskets...keep me updated.


-Matt

 

no, he did short block with accessories. You can see the tranny still in the car. Still impressive to do it with the hood on. I pulled it off first thing.

 

that doesnt look like a stock turbo!!

Where in VA are you at, Im in richmond, there arent too many turbo 2nd gens around here.

 

its not stock hahah, i'm located in Fairfax, Virginia/ Vienna area.

 

what a mess! good luck with that man, looks like a PITA with all that emissions and ac crap in there.

 

Well she's already in sooo not too bad,only thing left is to put on belt onto air pump,put on intercooler, two little copper rings for the oil control, and make a TID, and wait for this lil ****** to come( thanks to felixwankel88) in the mail another one look here at pics

 

I will be heading up the Woodbridge Megameets when it gets warmers so that is up in your area.
Are you going to the rx-7 race at VIR in two weeks? Alot of us richmond RX-7 guys should be heading there to watch (my track car isnt ready to run yet unfortunately)

 

I may go up there to watch, i'm not sure how far that is from me, i didn't evne know there was an RX-7 race but if i'm up and running fine by then i'll be happy to go.