No ****, Robin.

 

Some things should not be brought back from the dead. Another common motor in what was once a unique car. Move this thread to the appropriate section please.

 

power is power....

i know the point of owning an rx7 is for the rotary and all. but face it, an ls1 fb is a beast no matter how you look at it, its still a light engine with gobs of torque, power and potential. i would love to have an ls1 fb.

 

Couldn't agree with you more.

 

eh, dont know about... i was looking at it once, found an ls1 from a z28 full ecu, wiring harness and t56 trans for 1400, somone to fab the kit and install for 1200 and a nice shell for 500 bucks.

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3100 + misc parts like radiator, exahust ect.

lets say 5k would have gotten me an ls1 fb as compared to a super mint sr20det s13 coupe, guess what i would rather own.

 

Yeah, that being true and all, why bring a car so old and out of date into the world of performance unless you are just a fan of the car itself? Buying an FB to drop an LS1 in is absurd because of the amount of suspension modifications and everything else you would have to do to support it, and if you want great power to weight ratio, there are plenty of lighter cars out there to start with. I bought an FB because I love the rotary engine, not because I am a fan of Rx7's by any means. Engines and the engineering behind cars are the exact reason I am into the cars, not the cars themselves.

 

Head over to the other engine conversion sub-section and look through Grannys website.

 

Thats a pretty damn nice set-up, V8 RX-7's are sweet, I kinda want one someday.

On an totally unrelated note:

Seriously, whats with everyone stealing my "Rx7's ruined my life" avitar? I was the first to have that, thats atleast 3 people that have stolen it now.

 

valid point, i love the body style and the feel of an fb. always have, i love the rotary as well due to the same reason's you do. but you give that body style a reliable source to make alot of power and you have a winning combination. its the same reason you find people doing sr20det swap's into datsun 510's.



i would love to have an ls1 fb for a track car / weekend toy, as well as a nice mint low mielage gsl-se for a DD

 

im just waiting for my friend to wreck his corvette

 

I've got an 85 i am considering putting a 302 in since the old owner took everything out to do it. My FB that im buying will be my 'other weekend car'.

 

I own a 01 ws6 that just ran a 10.99@120. It is a 3780lb car and I would not trade it for the world. I like my FB because its a bit nostalgic, but more importantly has a rotary. My main reason for buying the rotary at the time was simply to learn about their operating princaple. I am a Master tech by day, rotary newb by night. I am goin to go drink some more beer. Oh, and why did someone bring back such an old thread? GrannySpeedShop.com!

-Ray

 

.......yeah so this thread makes me sick....i just got that puke taste in my mouth..... yeah funny how my Fb Rapes all the mustangs and camaros in town both in str8 lines and on the turns....and when i get it done it should be raping more than stangs and camaros.. anyhow this thread should be locked, moved, or deleted.....

 

This thread is absolutely pointless.
Honestly, a lot of engines can make a car "fast", it just depends on how much money you have PERIOD.

 

You know, one engine conversion that I would LOVE to see would be a RB25DET or 2JZGTE engine. I love the RB25 from the Skyline, but the 2JZGTE is just raw power when done properly. The sounds both these engines make is orgasmic as well. I just love a good inline 6 engine.

 

yes that would be nice, but i think that swap would be somewhat redundant since those motors are both iron blocked. add that w/ turbo accessories and a nice sized turbo, you'll be well over an LS1's swap weight.

 

i tend to disagree its not about money imho...its about how well you drive the machine. for instance when in a high speed run can you shift and eliminate the tick that comes fromt he synchros and drivetrain matching up to tire speed and engine revs? a neighbor once told me that its not what you have undre the hood but how you drive it that will win the race. now im not telling you to try and have a flawless shift everytime some idiot at a stop light wants to do a 0-60 race, but what i am saying is that piston (power) or rotary (fun) engine shouldn't make a difference in a race, but how you drive it and maintain it does....

so he did a LS1 conversion for more raw horsepower per pound of vehicle weight....that just means that the best chance anyone has of a fair fight as far as a battle of 7's go is to take a windy road and hope that your shifts are cleaner than his and that your overall technique for driving at high speeds is better than his...you can pump 1k HP from a skyline but if you cant drive it properly or if you let your clutch slip in a turn then you wasted horsepower/money as well as letting the opponent catch up.

IMHO, and please feel free to flame asway, is that no matter how you build your 7, it is always going to be biased towards handling instead of straight line power, and even if you swap an LS1 or better engine (like a carbed 460) undre the hood), you will still probably upgrade the suspension at some point and still maintain the handling edge of the car. i personally would rather stick with the rotary and throw down in the twisties but regardless i do like the swap...it looks clean and i bet that you got the straight line power you wanted. once again i would rather improve the handling and overtake someone in the corners, but to each his own.

it looks like a lot of effort was put into this swap and i look forward to videos and audio clips so on and so on.........

BTW that is a beautiful LS1 what are the future plans for the motor?

oh yeah...and to everyone else....feel free to flame away for the support/almost non support of the piston to FB swap

 

Yea only the people with slow cars complain about these swaps.

 

How is this any different than a 400+hp rotary powered FB. The carwas never up to the task of handling that kind of power, and takes a ton of modification to put it to the ground safely and affectivly. You'd know that `if you owned one.

 

Thats entirely possible. But either way it would still be very interesting to put a 1200hp 2JZGTE engine in a very light 1st gen.

 

This is why we do not want V8 threads in the 1st gen specific section. Because it is a touchy subject.

I am going to have this moved before it gets out of hand.

 

yay!

 

I don't browse the v8 section. I'd rather see this than the 300 turbo 12a threads.

At least this was about someone actually doing something wiht these cars. Not some ricer dreaming about being able to pull on minivans for once.

 

You could put a gas turbine engine in it too and blow everybody else off the road too! What the hell is the point? This is a timely debate for me, I just picked up an 85' GSL-SE with either a stuck or blown seal (hard to tell, I'm three hours away at college and have had about 2 hours total time to work on it!). After checking into parts to rebuild it...ouch...I thought long and hard about a 5.0 swap since I live in redneck country and you cant walk through a junkyard or farmer's field without tripping over a small block ford. But I realized that every time someone would say something about it I would tell them that it was 5 liter powered with a hint of shame, it just doesn't fit the nature of the car. sure it's cheap and fast, but an FB is a car with soul. If I wanted something that rumbled, i would have bought a Camaro, I wanted a rotary because it's unique. So after I use my tuition to pay for my rebuild....ger

 

rx7 should stay rotary