Hi everyone,

I'm 18 so I don't know much, but I've been lurking on the rx7 forums for a long time while researching my grandpas rx7. His rx7 is a 85' GSLSE that has pretty much been given to me to restore. I grew up knowing of a car in storage in his garage but i never knew it had been an rx7 all along until I started learning more about cars.

So here I am looking for answers to my questions. Currently I am trying to figure out how to squeeze 250 rwhp NA out of the gslse engine. I'm also swapping the front and rear subframes from an 86' FC into the car.

I look forward to getting to know you all.

Thanks,

Roosh

 

welcome to the board.

congrats on getting such a great gift from your grandfather. they are awesome cars!

that said, i read your post and you seem to have plans, that i feel i need to comment on. i know it's unsolicited, but here goes anyway.

leave the car alone ... at least for now. put it back together. make it roadworthy and drive it as it for a while. you're 18 - i get it. i also, get that you're 18 ... you might not get it. get it? drive the car with an open mind, maybe even look up some old articles (Road & Track, Car & Driver, etc.) and see if you have the same experiences that they describe. see it for what it is before you try to figure out what it could be. you may or may not thank me later.

now, that said, you're probably not going to get 250 to the wheels out of it unless you turbocharge or turn it into something you're probably not ready for. the subframe conversions are a matter of taste, so i'm sure we can all debate on it if needs be. the one thing that is not debatable is that the live axle setup gives the SA/FB generation it's character, and you simply don't know what that character is yet.