This has been debated so many times...you CAN or CAN'T use s5 vert lights on an S4 coupe???

 

I have JDM savanna tails on my 87 na, I know I've seen cars with similar lights, stock. Whats the deal?

 

i've seen the same thing. i guess the JDM's were on 86-91 models and we got the crappy ones and then decided to use them over here too in 89. don't know

 

"And besides that I normally completely agree with you, the arguement that the early Rotaries had them is lame. No RX-7 had round tail lights for the first 10 years of production."

There were Mazda rotary-powered cars before the RX-7, several of which, including the R100, RX-2, and early RX-3s had round taillights. Some RX-3s and the RX-4 had hexagonal taillights but in the same basic pattern.

The 81-85 RX-7 had the smoked round lights similar to the 89-91 FC. The 96+ FD in Japan also had smoked round taillights.

 

You must be talking about a JDM or European version, because every FB I have ever seen had square tail lights behind smoke plastic.

 

holy crap this board is busy! i tried to go through the whole forum, but it's next to impossible, there's SO many threads and **** gets posted so fast! (i guess this site doesn't crash too often?)

anyways, thanks for the replies...now that i look at it, i guess i don't really know if many people do this little conversion b/c all the 2nd gen rx-7s i DO know in detail are few, and just seeing an FC drive buy, you (at least I) can't really tell if it's s4 or s5...so anyways, thanks

 

For the umpteenth time, there is no difference between US and Japanese market taillights! There's no such thing as "Savanna" or "JDM" lights. All Series 4 (86-88) cars had the same lights, and all Series 5 (89-91) cars has the same lights, regardless of where they were sold. Hope that's cleared that up.

 

be there.. done that. bought my lights for 175 .

 

I bought mine in Japan, so when I said they were from a Savanna, I didn't mean they were series 5 lights, they really came from a Savanna in Japan.

 

s5 lights are getting so rare now is sick. I hope no one with an S5 gets in a mild fender bender and needs some new rear lights, insurence is just going to total the damn car cuz of the price of the lights.

 

I realise that, but by calling them "Savanna" lights, you imply they're different to US-spec S4 lights, which they aren't. I was just trying to kill all the confusion and misinformation out there.

 

S5 coupe lights will fit on an 88 vert

I bought a set of S5 tailights from an 89 coupe and put them on my 88 vert. I had to do a little cutting but nothing major. It only took about an hour and I had them on. The only drawback is that you won;t have a keyhole but who the hell cares-use the trunk release.

If anybody says otherwise I've got pictures to prove it.

The benifit of this is being able to use coupe tailights on a vert is that they are a whole lot easier to find than S5 vert tailights!

 

Zactly
We're on the same page. I was just clarifying.

 

I consider myself lucky getting my lights from a 91 RX7 na for 50 bucks and the exchange of my crappy square lights!

 

There is a lot of them on ebay right now some are expensive and some are cheap. Might try to grab some of those.

 

man dont we all love these tails. there has to be some j yard in the states that have like 30 89 to 91 rx7vs