Hello,

I would appreciate it if someone could tell me what is done to this engine as much as there is to be seen. What mods? Thanks a lot for help
Here is the picture:

 

Whats done to it? It looks like the turbos and IC are gone completely and it is now an N/A FD. It does have a greddy elbow, intake and torque brace.

 

it also has alt. + water pump pulley kit

 

where the **** is the forced induction?
if you are considering buying this do not
also MDI coils/or ignition /relocated dont know which it is(i.e coils ignition, but its one or the other) say them in my hyper rev and its in jap. that why i dont know which one it is

 

Damn, that poor FD... In you didn't notice, it's RHD.

 

Sweet mother of god, it has white wiper blades!!!

 

Yeah it is RHD
I was also wondering what has happened to the forced induction.
What would be the point of removing it ? Does this car have any power at all left in it without the turbos?
Can this be turbocharged again easily, installing a single turbo maybe? What would be the cost to turbo this again?

I am new to this forums and RX-7s, i know my way around Supras very well but i am now planning to buy and RX-7. I bought actually this car already and it is en route to me at the moment . It has full rollcage and F-Con V Pro ECU, it was pretty cheap so i bought it and figured that if it is not good enough to keep i can sell it and make a little profit. The rollcage in the car alone costs 3,5-4K USD in Europe And the car cost me about 7,5K total with all the customs taxes and transportation paid so i think it was not that bad deal maybe.

 

^^ ^^ Forget about whats done to it, its whats not do thats important.

 

Can we get some more pics of the car?

It seems as though this might be a track car. I have seen a couple of FD's gone NA, that were strictly track driven. From the pic it might have a gutted interior, but not sure. It might have some porting done to the motor also. Keep in mind that a turbo system adds atleast 50 lbs to the car in the front.

You couldv'e got your hands on a well sorted track FD. What are your plans for this car.

 

Removing it makes the engine last longer, and yes it has much less HP. I do not see this done very often - it's kinda pointless considering how the rest of the car is built for extreme performance.

If you install a single turbo, you usually have to upgrade the intercooler anyway. So I'd say that if you plan to go single you won't spend more than normal on this particular car. But we have no idea what kind of fuel system is installed in this car, and fuel upgrades are a big part of going single. I don't know much about that F-Con V Pro ECU, but make sure it can support bigger HP and boost.

Well good luck I think you'll need some. Ok, a lot of luck. Read the FAQ thread and get familar with the car in general so that you can ensure everything is maintained and sturdy before you go building it back up again.

Dave

 

Yes, this is prepped for track. Here are the pictures, feel free to check them out.
Any idea what exhaust is on the car? Actually i have a small company which is mostly my hobby, we sell performance cars from Japan and occasionally convert them to left hand drive. Since i just bought 3 cars i had space for one more and thought it would be nice to have an RX-7. My plans - either keep it as a hobby car (i have none at the moment since i sold my Supra) or sell it. And yes, the car is gutted, as you will see from the pics.

http://www.immobilarie.com/index.php?id=9&gallery=6

 

I would get some more information on the car before you either:

1. purchase it
2. mod it

The reason is that it may be a built NA motor. In that case, you don't really want to just go and slap a turbo on it. Obviously someone went to some trouble to make it NA (i.e. it would run like crap on the stock ECU, so it's probably running an aftermarket unit) so I would find out exactly everything done to the car.

I had a video a few years back of a built NA FD flying around the highway system in Japan. It was damn loud!

 

Well, in Japanese auctions you always do not get all the info, so i am in the dark on this one.
I was just thinking out loud when i asked about the turbo installation question, since i am not familiar with RX-7s.
If you saw the website where the pictures are, there is a Supra we had, it had over 800hp and it turned out to have a fully built engine with very expensive parts, we did not find that out before we accidentally boosted it to 36 psi and it held. So we opened the engine to see the damage and we had a nice surprise So it could be that this engine is heavily modified or then again it could be not.

But i will let you know how loud it is when it arrives
Thanks a lot for all the information guys, i realy would like to have an RX-7 as my next hobby car so if i decide not to keep this one i guess i need to keep my eyes open and buy one more

Any clue on the exhaust ?

 

The ABS has also been removed.

If it's a track car, why do they still have a full-size normal battery up front??? Still running the stock AST (very poorly placed)? Strange.

 

Looks like one of the older Trust/Greddy exhausts.

 

Yeah, i noticed the huge battery aswell.

 

thats a shame whats been done to that car!

 

Uh... The ABS unit is still there. This is a right hand drive car.

A lot of Japanese tuners don't seem to change the AST. Ever look through a RX-7 Hyper Rev, So many of the feature cars have the stock AST.

 

I have to disagree with you on this. This would be a perfect car for some wanting to get a reliable track car. It has a lot of very top quality parts on this car. I would bet the suspension is pretty trick as well.

I think you got a pretty good deal if you use it for what it was built for.

 

The ABS is still on the right side of the engine bay in a RHD drive car....and it's missing. The gamma is messed up on my comp here at work so I can't view pics very well, but I sure as **** don't see an ABS unit there!

 

Nope. That is why Feed torque (engine) braces dont work very well on USDM cars.

This is a clearer pic of a RHD engine bay.

 

I stand corrected.

So all of the stock ignition stuff has been removed then. OK.

 

you should definitely post a vidoe of it running and being driven when you get it, i would like to hear it, never heard an NA fd before, though it is probably similar to an NA FC. Good Luck with the car. Almost looks like an Apexi Gt spec exhaust.

 

Yeah, i will post a video of it. Not a problem. I found a vid on Youtube that has a NA FD in it. Doesn't seem to be slow as hell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K43_ew6A7_w

 

that NA FD is a 3rotor, yours isn't.