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peejay 01-15-18 06:17 AM

Twin Dizzy Confusion
 
I have a '73 12A and 4 speed.

What CONFUSES me is that the Internet says this should have had a top mount starter. It does not, it has a bottom mount starter, and what looks like a generic ribcase 4 speed. (I assume, it looks like every other ribcase I have seen in pictures)

Would an RX-7 starter work with this? I've heard that the starter will interchange with single dizzy ribcase bellhousings, but then I have also heard that all twin dizzy had top mount starters...

KansasCityREPU 01-15-18 08:59 AM

My dual dizzy has a bottom mount starter. Not sure about the strater interchange with an RX-7.

Jeff20B 01-15-18 10:24 AM

The late 73 RX-2 wagon had a twin dizzy bottom mount starter setup. It was kind of a mutt year, like how the 83 was kinda that way.

peejay 01-15-18 06:02 PM

Well, it IS a four-door car.

Hmm. It occurs to me that the pile of parts that came with the car included TWO radiator/oil cooler assemblies. I wonder if the engine I have is even from this car.

But it's still a twin dizzy and it's still a bottom mount starter...

surem03 01-15-18 07:47 PM

It could be a rx3 transmission. 73 rx3 had bottom mounted starter and rib case transmission.

peejay 01-15-18 08:25 PM


Originally Posted by surem03 (Post 12246068)
It could be a rx3 transmission.

I would hope so, it came out of my '73 RX-3...

Well, apparently it did, anyway. The PO partially disassembled the car in the late Seventies and then it all became a home for wayward mice.

surem03 01-16-18 07:32 AM


Originally Posted by peejay (Post 12246075)
I would hope so, it came out of my '73 RX-3...

Well, apparently it did, anyway. The PO partially disassembled the car in the late Seventies and then it all became a home for wayward mice.


what car is the motor and transmission in right now??

peejay 01-16-18 11:30 AM

It's on a Harbor Freight furniture dolly...

lduley 01-16-18 01:35 PM


Originally Posted by peejay
It's on a Harbor Freight furniture dolly...

Vroom vroom!! :lol:

73rx313b 01-16-18 03:18 PM

Pretty quick dolly i bet!!

surem03 01-20-18 08:08 AM


Originally Posted by peejay (Post 12246075)
I would hope so, it came out of my '73 RX-3...

Well, apparently it did, anyway. The PO partially disassembled the car in the late Seventies and then it all became a home for wayward mice.


Any pictures of the rx3??

peejay 01-20-18 09:12 AM


Originally Posted by surem03 (Post 12247133)
Any pictures of the rx3??

No. It was six years old when he parked it, so it's pretty rusted. Also dented all to hell.

surem03 01-20-18 10:21 AM


Originally Posted by peejay (Post 12247144)
No. It was six years old when he parked it, so it's pretty rusted. Also dented all to hell.

ok, I have a lot of rx3 parts. Hence why I asked... still will like to see it thou... I've owned a lot of rx3's.


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