Just wondering if anyone else in the area has done the ls1 swap in there fc, or even fd. I am just now getting the headers and clutch etc put on the ls1 before i swap it in. As soon as i get the wiring figured out i will have it running hopefully sometime in june. Just wondering if anyone else has done it in the area. I will post up some pics of the swap tomarrow.

 

I haven't seen the LS1 swap, but I did see an older 350 in a FC that was pretty beat up...

 

I have a 5.0 liter FC and will eventually swap to LS1 or LT1, let me know how it goes.

 

there is a LT1 FI swap on craigslist right now. Very celan and well done.
http://seattle.craigslist.org/car/156595749.html

 

Don't do it man.

A V8 in a RX-7 is an abomination.

Your karma will suffer greatly.

 

Hey nothing wrong with bigger motors in lighter cars, anyways thanks for the input, motor went right in tonight just got to do all the wiring should be running soon.

 

i'm in the middle of an ls1 swap right now & my brother's doing a lt1 swap....
what choices do you have after getting hosed by a local shop & having no motor.

 

for those that have a problem with a swap into an RX7-
when Carrol Shelby put a big, heavy, Ford V-8 into a small British sports car, it was applauded and revolutionary for it's time, although he was just doing what had already been happening in the hotrod community for some time.... it's now the most popular kit car replica ever, recognized world-over as the shelby cobra.... even if it's not an original. some even handle better than the original.

when hotrodders began putting chevy smallblocks into all sorts of cars that had previously housed flathead motors, was the same argument made?

the way I see it, the V8 swap into a RX7 is no different..... the way some of us think outside the box is a just little different.

 

I once met a man that said "when I swap an engine I look for doube the hp, if I cannot achieve that then there is not point"

I don't see any issue with it. It is a great swap. I personally my only rx7 be a v8. I would need one that was a rotary though.

 

Your the guy that bought my FC wheels a few weeks ago, right? I still wanna see your FC when you get it goin. It would give me some thoughts for when I go LS6 in my FD.

 

What up man, yea thats me. I put the engine in last night so i just need to work on the wirring and getting it back together. hoping to have it done with in the next few weeks. Yea i will hit u up for sure. do you know ayone selling some fd wheels?

 

now putting a piston engine is a FD would be sacreligious. The reason a lot of us find it wrong to put a piston engine in a rotary equiped vehicle is the fact that they are two different beasts. When Shelby did his swap he was just putting a large more powerful piston engine into a car that already came with a piston engine. I guess the way I see it is that FBs and FCs are a lot more common, cheaper, and easier to come by than the FD. Any way you look at it though it is "unpure" to be putting piston engines in rotary vehicles but damn the power increase you can get from swapping a v-8 in. Not to menion if you could find room to get forced induction on one! The chassis probably would last too long though!

 

the rx7 is allready out side of the box with a rotary engine.... putting a v8 in it is more like going back into the box.... lol

 

I say to each there own. Just don't do it half ***. (This goes for bolth sides of the rotary/piston debate.) CJ

 

Im putting an ls1 into my FD when I blow the current motor, I see nothing wrong with it.

 

there is room for forced induction in both the FC and FD. bryan hinson of hinson supercars is running a turbo LSx FD in the pump gas drags... running low 8's maybe 7's in the 1/4...
hinson also does custom forced induction setups in both FCs and FDs... where there is a will, there is a way.

I've also seen photos of a supercharged LSx FC putting out 700+hp and 600+Tq... they used a supercharger kit for a GTO and modified it to fit.

a stock LS1 puts down ~350 hp with a tune, add a cam and headers- you're over 400 Hp and Tq easily..... still dead reliable, totally streetable & running on pump gas too. ported heads, a big cam, and a bottom end built to match it... 600-800 hp N/A is not out of range. there are some going even bigger N/A with stroker kits.

 

Envious rotards, bwahahaha. It always comes down to some smartass stroking his antiquated 15 second car while nipping at the heels of the almighty V8. Keep barking little doggies!

 

haha ^^^^ this guy is the biggest hypocrite. anyways good job, IMO anything making good power is cool, regardless of what it goes into.

 

15 seconds.....you must be talking to the kiddies with the 1st and 2nd gens. CJ

 

Your FD is the exception. The fact that you haven't given up on it makes it special.

 

If my 1st gen is anywhere near 15 seconds I am going to have a fit

 

15k miles

 

If you have a engine builder that knows what he's doing, a tuner who is knowledgeable in his field, and not some backyard mechanic putting it all together....the rotary engine can be a very strong and reliable perfomer. Anyone can throw and engine together, put boost to it, and make good power.....but to make it last, you can't half *** it. (Seems like this is a major problem with most of the rotary crowd.) When you do something the right way, it costs $$.....the second problem with %90 of the crowd. Most of the guys are to poor, and end up re-using worn out peices.

CJ

50k hard miles on my FD engine.

 

Remember James with the silver FD? Guess what he ended up doing before his motor blew? It's good to see a formerly hardcore rotary modder see the light and realize that the fatigue factor of safety with a 500hp rotary is much lower than with a 500hp LT1. Lets face it we all love our cars. Heart disease need not limit their lifespan.

 

Like i stated earlier, to each his own.

When it comes to forced induction, its just as easy to screw things up with a piston as it is with a rotor. My older brother runs a supercharged 95 mustang. He ran it to low on fuel, ended up going lean. Burt a hole in 3 different pistons, and cracked the block nearly in half. Whats funny is that the only thing holding the entire engine together was the gurdal. It made 500rwhp on pump fuel (On the GZ dyno) and was pretty quick. However, it made buying a new rotary engine look like chump change. HP is expensive, no way around it.

88 get your car running soon. Whats all left to do on it? It would be cool to meet up at woodburn again. I'll be down there for the season opener of the friday night drags as with my Dad, and maybe my older brother. Let me know, CJ

About James....one of the reasons he sold the engine was because someone offered him a nice chunck of change for his entire setup. From my understanding, he could'nt pass up the deal. I whent down to his house one day to pick up some fuel, so thats how I know about it.