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Old Jan 14, 2003 | 09:25 PM
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seeing that rex and hearing a vette was strange indeed.

I hate to say it...but i actually liked it in a small town muscle car sorta way.


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Old Jan 14, 2003 | 09:29 PM
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It's true if you can't afford the car then you shouldn't buy it. I didn't plan for my motor to have problems and it is still in the air about why it blew. This was my fault for not having it checked up by a pro after I added mods.
Being in college it is very hard to maintain this car without a job but now that I look in my bank account I have enough saved for a new motor and I will do it right this time and hope to not have any major problems for years and years.

I think modding any motor and running the hell out of it will kill it's life and people will want more and more out of the ls1 and the same thing will happen. Your best bet is to wait until you have money to buy a car that was super fast from the factory and was made to reliably go that fast time and time again.

The rx-7 is a sports car not a race car and should be treated as such.

Disrespectful I am not and do not intend to be.

I know a reliable 11.8 second car can be achieved over and over again with the rotary.

I'm done with this thread. It's called an opinion as in I'll tell you what mine is every time and I'll also hear yours.

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Old Jan 14, 2003 | 10:20 PM
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... because it's the easy way out and it just admits that you are stupid and can't figure out how to have a relaible fd. If you are doing this you don't even deserve to have a rx-7...a chevy that every piece of **** car in the US has... This should be illegal what morons.
You don't call this disrespectful?

You blowing your engine may or may not have been your fault, but the bottom line is that the rotary engine is very difficult to tune reliably. This is fact.

I think modding any motor and running the hell out of it will kill it's life
Obviously.

and people will want more and more out of the ls1 and the same thing will happen.
The upgrading potential is a lot greater for and LS1 than a rotary. I mean, a stock Z06 motor *starts* at 405 hp, NA. And it's reliablity has been proven.

Your best bet is to wait until you have money to buy a car that was super fast from the factory and was made to reliably go that fast time and time again.
So you are essentially saying that an FD RX-7 is not made to go super fast in a repeatable and reliable fashion? I'd say the reliable part is right.

I am in no way bashing the rotary motor. I think is a great engine. But I just get a little irked when people come on here and spew a bunch of unfounded crap.

So you actually dug this thread out from a week ago just to bash the v8 conversion?

As far as expressing your opinion, you are calling chevy engines pieces of ****, and the people who do the conversion morons. You shouldn't bitch about people retaliating to you 'expressing your opinion'.
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Old Jan 15, 2003 | 02:54 PM
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Wow...

"Wow."

This is the most articulate response that sppooge would understand.... "Wow." again....


Wow........


What a maroon!
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Old Jan 15, 2003 | 03:25 PM
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From this post snook wrote:

if it were that easy to just do the reliability mods and be careful then everyone would do it and have a reliable fd. Don't kid yourself the fd isn't reliable. This is why everyone has that idea about them because they have experienced it or know someone that has.
Doesn't sound like snook is really convinced that the 13B is reliable.

That is why many are considering the LS1. Cost wise, I took a look into the 20B forum and a turnkey conversion was listed there as $35K. That's quite a bit beyond the $14-22K numbers for the LS1.
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Old Jan 16, 2003 | 02:21 PM
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From: HinsonSuperCars.com
All Southeastern RX7club members:

We will be attending the Alabama SCCA autoX event on Feb 16th in Birmingham. Hopefully some of you guys will be able to make it to the event. There are only 50 slots available, so you need to go to www.alscca.org to preregister for the event.

We will tape the event and add more footage to the website. I hope to see you guys there.

Brian Hinson
www.HinsonSuperCars.com
LS1 powered '93 RX7
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