I saw a Brownish/goldish FB vert headed towards Springfield/Kingstowne on the Franconia-Springfield / Fairfax County Parkway... 7:45 PM, 20 August...

Who are you? Fess up! It looked sweet. I woulda flagged you down had I not been going in the opposite direction.

 

Wow, an FB vert! I wonder how many were custom made.

 

You should've come to our little meet in Springfield last night... Three FBs... The FB 'vert you saw, My freshly painted 85 GS, and a freshly painted GSL-SE.... It was FUN!!!! Check the NE forum for events.....

Dan

 

Damnit!!! I need to fix my car so I can dome to these meets! The closest I would've come would have been to have an SE alxe and front struts in the bed of my pickup.

I really need to find a place to put these. I am NOT lugging that axle up to a 4th floor apartment.

 

There was a company on the west coast that did the FB vert conversion...

There's a good thread on it somewhere here....

I'll look fit it...

 

This one was made by a company from Orlando, FLA..... I think it was "global coachbuilders"... The guy said they were sold new, from the company....

Dan

 

The Company was called Pacific Avatar.
Here's a good thread:
https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...ht=convertable

And a bunch more:
https://www.rx7club.com/search.php?searchid=85046

 

You should have turned around and followed to the meet, lol. I rarely see any RX-7s on the road and almost never see any FB's. Three in the same place was a pretty good showing. It was fun, and nice meeting everyone.

 

Yeah that was a fun meet, I was the painted GSL-SE Dan's talking about.

 

Sorry, the convertible was mine and the color is Maya Gold. Pele what does yours need to get on the road again?

 

Cash... Lots and lots of cash... And a good bit of time.

I gotta sandblast and powdercoat this SE axle and Miata Torsen Diff housing...

Weld angle iron over the rust holes in the rear wheel wells.

Remove the engine and have it street ported...

Install the CP Rack and pinion kit.

Install my spoiler and front air dam...

Get it painted...

Research what I wanna do with the suspension...

 

Sounds like you have your work cut out for quite a while! It should be a very nice car in when you're done. Keep us posted; I'll be interested what you think of the CP R&P when you get it installed. See you around.

 

Reccomend an engine builder in the area? I'm thinking Rotary Resurrection.

 

My only first hand experience is with Peter (PFS), and Brett (Rotary Performance)--and remans from Malloy. Any of the places in this thread have their good recommendations, as does Rotary Ressurection. Talk to some of their recent customers, keeping in mind different people will have different experiences, employees come and go, and their workloads at any point in time can affect the how the job gets done. If I needed an engine, I would probably look at Pineapple, KDR, and Brett who is local (Manassass) and has a great reputation. You should definitely consider him. http://www.rp-performance.com/