Hey from Tallahassee!
 

Hey from Tallahassee Florida!

Have been lurking the forums (mostly the classifieds...) ever since I picked up my FC a year or so ago.

I traded a 300k mile 240sx for a barely-running 1990 GXL on the night of the first Hillary-Trump TV debate. In hindsight, I probably should have sold the 240sx outright and pocketed a bunch of extra cash. I sold the motor to someone who said he was putting it in an RX8, and swapped in a Ford 5.0 out of a Foxbody (sorry). That was fun, I even got the stock hood to close without any subframe spacing. That got old, those engines really don't fit well in the bay, so that motor was relocated into a 240z (not as sorry), and the car was swapped to an LS1/T56 setup (sorry again). That's been fun, car just got a Ford 8.8 rear end conversion. Suspension is all freshened up, from some Fortune Auto coils to Ronin camber links and new bushings and ball joints everywhere.

I also own a soon-to-be-turbo 97 Miata, and a sitting-on-jackstands 78 280z.

Have always wanted an FB (with a rotary...), but the recirculating ball steering has always put me off.

Hello from the West Coast. I just bought an FB this week, running junkyard rescue. The carb is leaking and the paint is ugly but it doesnt have any other major problems. The steering feels a little sloppy but it drives well. (I've only ever driven a camry, I'm used to rack and pinion) A Junkyard swap could make a manual rack pretty easy. Im going to rebuild the carb, and paint the car, and go from there. I've been considering a roll cage, but I'm a tall driver and my head is already pretty close to the roof.

Pretty cool!

I know swapping the FC subframe is sort of common, though getting the suspension geometry right requires a good bit of fabrication and at the end of the day its still McStrut.