fre

holy hell I want that car That would make my 11 second ride look like a turtle.

pianoprodigy

Tim,

That is what I want to do. Twin-Turbo V8. I'd like to have the money to build the motor and trans to handle the 800+ hp before putting it in the car even though I won't do the turbo kit for a while (I know it's not available yet), so I may have to drive around with the POS rotary for awhile so I can save to do the swap and build the motor for boost.

snub disphenoid

I would like to see Hinson's 1000+RWHP shop car go against an RX-7 myself. Hell, I'd even like to see their 691rwhp car go against a fast FD. They put $10000 into the car and it ran a 6.0@112mph on a shakedown run, which you have to respect.

RexRyder

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the kit from grannys speed shop is approx 2k, motor/tranny was 3.5k on ebay with no ECU. thats 5k, and its just the motor/swap stuff. You must have got the extreme hook up on your ****.

academytim

I've got video I took here at a local track where one of their customers was running 10.3x's consistently on drag radials. He had essentially a stock LS1 with a t04 turbo running about 5-6psi. He guessed he was making mid 400s. Hinson's full interior car ran high 9s before he ripped the engine out and started working on the twin turbo monster. I can't wait to see that thing run. They didn't install a parachute on the back for nothing.

academytim

I wouldn't exactly call the rotary a POS, but I hear ya. There's only so much you can do with a 13b, and you generally pay for the performance with reliability. I don't care what anyone says...a 500hp 13b is going to have a VERY short life. 500hp out of an LS1 is nothing...you could still get 100k miles + with that. I daily drove my stock FD for over a year before I got another daily driver, and it did just fine. However, in its current state of mods...I wouldn't want to be driving it everyday.

hondahater

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very impressive I"m definately not into the v8 swap thing but that is just rediculous! Man post some vids when it is done. HOw is that going to do for the 50/50 weight issue or is this going to be a 1/4 car only?

kukri

kit from grannys is 1.5 K and i didnt get whole kit either..tranny was taken out of totalled 2002 camaro, motor was rebuilt out of a camaro and car wasnt really worth much..so there you go...if you're smart there are ways to get performance cheap

RexRyder

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Well yea im sure if neone looked hard enough they could get deals on the engine, tranny and other conversion parts, but u said the car, wheels, suspension. c'mon a good set of wheels will set you back a g, throw in another g for suspension, and another for rolling chassis. ur **** doesnt add up

kukri

who said that i bought new wheels first of all
im sorry i exagerated it cost me 5.7K

and body a lil beat up, but not too bad
also i can get any kind of performance parts and upgrades for cars/trucks for dealer prices

if you didnt know buying **** like exhaust retailers make close to 50% off of you, i didnt buy the exahust, just the mufflers

academytim

I'm sure the turbo system adds some weight to the front, also what you can't really see...is that the turbo pipes actually go into the firewall, where they will feed into an air/water intercooler...then will go to the throttle body on the intake manifold which as you can see is rotated on top of the engine so the TB faces the firewall. Pretty badass if you ask me. I'm sure the 50/50 will be a little off (52/48 maybe?), but this car is pretty much being built for drag only. It has a parachute installed on the back...so I don't see any autocrosses in its future.

kukri

haha what are you doing for rear end and suspension?..that's gonna be a street legal 8 sec car with parashute?? that's coo

academytim

Just to clarify...this is not my car. That is the current Hinson Supercars project. I'm not sure what all is going into it as far as rear end or suspension...but I heard it will have a powerglide transmission.

binz

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sorry forgot to use the grammar check. thanks for spotting that.

mark57

Man - that's wild. But how will it hook up? Electronic traction control?

For the life of me, I can't understand why so-called forum "purists" pooh-pooh a V8 swap and don't pooh-pooh the difficult, impractical 20B swap.

PBR

I just ordered the HSC LSx engine mounting package. whoa 5k on the swap? My wheels and tires cost more.

ForceFed

Lets get something straight here. I'm not saying you should swap a V8 into your FD RX-7. But can you tell me any practical advantages of having a 13B-REW in a FD OVER having an LS-1 or LS-6 in your FD? Just because its different? Thats the most bone headed statement I've ever heard, kiddie. Don't get me wrong, but when the engine blows in a car whose engine is engineered with inherent shortcomings, I can't turn a blind eye, no matter how "different" it is.

pimpncuba

maybe the difficult, costly, and impractical nature of the 20b swap or any rotary engine demands some sort of admiration. take a lamborgini. it's expensive and fast as nuts but you can barely park the car due to poor review visibility. but people admire the hell out of the car. a similar parallel with a rotary swap. take a corvette. very affordable and still fast as nuts, but you can have one as a daily driver, easily. a similar parallel with a v8 swap. in my opinion the lamborgini gets more looks on the road because of its rarity, which is because of its impractical nature and cost. whereas around where i live vettes are a dime a dozen. not saying v8 swaps are that common but, because of the unfeasiblity of a rotary seeing a high powered rotary in my opinion is more of an oddity and makes it more desirable and admirable than a high powered v8. </2 cents>

RexRyder

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ok, kinda makes sense now. but most ppl cant get the extreme hookup like you do, so the average swap will be more.

gerbraldy

This is an rx7 forum, if your a real rx7 (rotary) gearhead you don't care what kinda car you drive, as long as you can put a rotary engine into it. THe poohpooh 20b swap is done by lots of people because they want awesome torque along with assloads of horsepower, which you get along with the oh so sweet rotary engine sound. Lets see a slightly modded ls1 rev to 9k

kukri

I think seeing FD is desirable than seeing a vette no matter what kind of motor it's got in it.. when i rode in a FDs i didnt give a damn if its got a rotary or not..it was the cool fact that it was an FD - a rare great looking and handling car

lol gerbraldy..you dont have to have a rotary to be a real rx7 gearhead..I love FCs and FDs..

and why would you need 9K when motor make like 400 torque slightly tuned thruout most of the power band?

turboR1

ALSO.. keep in mind here MR Mullet that our engine is ONLY a 1.3 liter compared to your big *** v8. IM more impressed with a 1.3 liter putting down 400rwhp then a v8 twice its size. AND I think that frankenstein rx7 only shows that you have no idea how to work on the orginal engine that was in there and had to wuss out and get something you were more familar with.. obviously the rx7 is not the car for you.. go buy a vette or some other gm

only reasons rotary's are unrealiable is because of the lack of knowledge of the owner..

rxse7en

I'd watch that 1.3l claim.

kukri

well the v8 dont have turbos...where 1.3 putting 400 rwhp down have turbos..what's so impressive about that? supras put down 600-700 rwhp with bigger turbos without the rebuild.. some civics put down 500+whp with the turbos.. therere aint nothing impressive about rotary. which is why some chose the small blocks..that make way more sense..
I'm sure FC/FD with a good sounding v8 turns waay more heads than ur common rotary one.
I hate american cars beacuse they are heavy and handle like ****..but i hate torquless rotary..which why i did what i did.. why would i got out and buy a vette for almost 10x the money i paid and get less performacne. Obviously rx7 with a v8 is the car for me and rx7 with rotary is car for you so you shut up and be happy with your rotary, no reason to get mad at me because i get way more performance and reliability for the money

SirRX7

OK lets all take a deep breath before its too late.
First... For those of you telling V8-7 owners how this is a rotary forum try again. It is the RX-7 club NOT the rotary club. On top of that if you haven't noticed this is the kills section and had you read this section's rules you would have seen that all cars and all kills are welcome here. You don't have to like his car or what he's done to it but you WILL respect his right to post here.

If you want to bitch about his choice of powerplant take to to the difference of opinion section.

BTW, since I'm posting.... Nice kill even though the swap isn't my thing.
I do find it funny how people don't break out the silly, "you've destroyed the handling" line when someone speaks of how they've swapped a 20B into their 7.

Thank you, have a nice day and carry on.