my fc project
 

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i bought an fc for 500dollars... nice body no rust no wrecks but the previous owner had done a nasty paint job. well the first thing i noticed wen i popped the hood was that he had done a tune up and put the trailing plugs on the first rotor and the leading plugs on the second rotor... so i figured hey maybe i can get a hell of a deal. bein the engine had a mere 80,000. so i towed it home and got the plugs right. changed the oil checked fuel pressure. typical stuff like that and well she didn't start... well after that i decided to tear it down after finding out that i had the sixport nonturbo motor. well all i can say is this punk didn't know a thing about rotarys. he'd done a t2 conversion. and simply bolted on a s4 turbo and all the other basics. held custom modded the wires. so he could use the original harness on the s4 turbo conversion. he also removed the oil metering nozzles so the motor is screwed up.

i didn't know. so oh well. its still got a good body with no rust. now i live in alaska... now most of you are like isn't that where they live in igloos and dogsleds to school. but for those of you who are geographically inclined understand that simply getting a rotary here is well difficult. so i have a thousand differnt paths to choose from. because if im gonna eat the shipping im gonna make it worth my while.

i am a mechanic and also am a certified welder. so brackets and such are no problem i can make what ever i need. but i have the extremely rare opportunity to work on rotaries becuz of my location. so all of this to simply ask does anybody know if you can bolt the six speed rx8 transmission to the twin turbo out of an fd? see i figure yeah they will because its still a 13b motor right so makes sense. but i do not know for certain and nobody local has been able to help me out.

also i will be uploading pics of my fc as soon as i figure out how to load them up to the computer. thanks for the knowledge ppl.

good luck

go to the second generation section and read the Factory Service Manual and the FAQ posted by Icemark.

You Can't bolt a transmission to turbo's. :rlaugh:

Unless your willing to throw about 15 grand into sourcing, purchasing, shipping a 13B-REW TT motor/trans/ecu/harness, and installing said motor/trans etc into an FC, While retaining the Seq. Turbo setup, I would say stick with a 13B or 13B-T.

And unless you have the RX8 trans laying around, stick with the 5 speed, and maybe a better diff ratio. I haven't got a clue about the transmission fitting, but you could possibly do a custom housing/adaptor.

My 91 turbo RX7 can go faster than i would ever want to. :scared:

Also learn to search and find things out for yourself, because people will flame you if you post questions without researching the answer first.

Good luck man.