rotarybeast7

i need someone with experience to help me w/ my 2 rx-7 projects involes tranny swap and new seals

Rocking Rotary

iTrader: (14)

Location always helps

JSmith0101

iTrader: (6)

Wisconsin, duh.

What sort of seals? Baby seals?

rotarybeast7

milwakee area and needs new coolent seal and apex seal

JSmith0101

iTrader: (6)

Just one of each?

rotarybeast7

it has a blown coolent seal and not sure how many apex seals are blown so i need someone in milwakee area to help me yank the engine out and see what needs to be fixed

rotorhead_izzy

iTrader: (36)

i'm about half an hour away from you, not a whole lot of experience tearing these engine apart, but if you need some help i might be able to.

Xeros

grab a reman if you have the cash. Or you can tear yours down using the many manuals posted here and even take a shot at porting if you have the *****.

Rocking Rotary

iTrader: (14)

A spec could always do a rebuild for you.

rotarybeast7

how difficult is a street port going to be? i would send the engine away for a rebuild but i don't have the money and i feel i'll learn the most about a rotary engines if i take it apart myself.

Xeros

very true. In my opinion its best to do it yourself as logn as your ultra **** and careful doign it step by step, you should be able to rebuild it on your own with out too much hassel. Also, porting takes the right touch, you have to be very careful and you have to know what kind of overlaps and size your gunna need to do it.

rotarybeast7

what is a good place online that has a good step to step manual on how to rebuild an engine?

84-7GSL

I would buy one of the several rebuild videos that are available and start there. I think Atkins rotary has a good one.

JSmith0101

iTrader: (6)

Anybody know about the RE 13B DIY? I thought those were supposed to be pretty good videos. Other than that, yeah, Atkins is really good from what I've heard. Don't forget your handy dandy FSM, that's always good, too.

Maybe even find an engine in a salvage yard, and practice the proper teardown procedure on it and how to make sure what is and isn't in spec. I did that, and it saves you the worry of totally screwing up your engine that is supposed to run again some day.

rotarybeast7

thanks i think i'll get the video. Is there any good salvage yards around milwakee area or wisconsin in general? also where would be the best and cheapest place to buy rebuild kit with new seals

JSmith0101

iTrader: (6)

There are A LOT of salvage yards in Wisconsin. I know Gibson's Auto Wrecking in Neenah has over a dozen RX-7s, most (except the TurboII) have their motors.