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i bought an fc for 500dollars... nice body no rust no wrecks but the previous owner had done a nasty paint job. well the first thing i noticed wen i popped the hood was that he had done a tune up and put the trailing plugs on the first rotor and the leading plugs on the second rotor... so i figured hey maybe i can get a hell of a deal. bein the engine had a mere 80,000. so i towed it home and got the plugs right. changed the oil checked fuel pressure. typical stuff like that and well she didn't start... well after that i decided to tear it down after finding out that i had the sixport nonturbo motor. well all i can say is this punk didn't know a thing about rotarys. he'd done a t2 conversion. and simply bolted on a s4 turbo and all the other basics. held custom modded the wires. so he could use the original harness on the s4 turbo conversion. he also removed the oil metering nozzles so the motor is screwed up.

i didn't know. so oh well. its still got a good body with no rust. now i live in alaska... now most of you are like isn't that where they live in igloos and dogsleds to school. but for those of you who are geographically inclined understand that simply getting a rotary here is well difficult. so i have a thousand differnt paths to choose from. because if im gonna eat the shipping im gonna make it worth my while.

i am a mechanic and also am a certified welder. so brackets and such are no problem i can make what ever i need. but i have the extremely rare opportunity to work on rotaries becuz of my location. so all of this to simply ask does anybody know if you can bolt the six speed rx8 transmission to the twin turbo out of an fd? see i figure yeah they will because its still a 13b motor right so makes sense. but i do not know for certain and nobody local has been able to help me out.

also i will be uploading pics of my fc as soon as i figure out how to load them up to the computer. thanks for the knowledge ppl.

 

If you have a mazda dealer up there, you might be able to get a look at an RX8 on a rack. That would obviously be great for you to look at. I personally do not know if it will bolt straight up, but I think I remember hearing that It did. I know that the ratio for 6th is about the same as 5th on the rx7, if not slightly lower.

Failing that, you could check the rx8 forums and ask them that question.

As for the other stuff on that motor, does it still have the NA vacuum actuated 6 port manifold with the turbo?

As for doing the turbo swap correctly, check aaron cake's site, it goes through a pretty damn good step by step.

The fact that you are a mechanic, and a certified welder will work in your favor, should it come to fabricating brackets and parts. Wish I had my miller with me instead of in southern california...thats for damn sure.

Best of luck to you here, make sure you take advice from people with a grain of salt, dont be afraid to ask questions, but do some research on your own too. Not everyone here is a Mazda master tech.

Oh, and quick word of advice...dont derail threads (I know thats not your intention) but just throwing it out there. If you have a question, post a new topic, unless you find one that has something along those lines already.

 

i will admit i am a newb to this site and how it works. also i would classify my self as the average male meaning to hell with directions and intsructions.

all that vaacum stuff was removed when i bought the car i thought it was a t2.

after looking at the rx8 tranny im a go against it. cool idea but eh. ild still like six gears though just to say i have six gears. lol.

i found this website claims they have a motor mount to fit an rew motor into the fc chasis. so its called motivefabrication.com i posted the forum on second gen specific. i might try this place.

 

Welcome to the rx7 community.

Go to this we site under products go to FC and u should see the motor mounts.
http://www.banzai-racing.com/

Good luck wit ur build

 

The site www.motivefab.com is my site, and I do all of the fabrication. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I do have the mounts in stock and ready to ship.

 

It'll bolt up, I'm 99% certain. Take a look on RX8club.com if you want someone that's more of an expert, but the renesis will bolt to the rx7 transmissions, so, it would follow....