1,500 miles on my LS1 powered '93 RX7
01-14-03, 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.
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.
Last edited by Snook; 01-14-03 at 09:37 PM.
01-14-03, 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 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
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.
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'.
01-15-03, 03:25 PM
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From this post snook wrote:
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.
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.
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.
01-16-03, 02:21 PM
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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
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
