what is required to put a small block chevy engine + tranny into my 85 or would a brand new rotary be a better idea?

 

Wrong section but check out http://www.grannysspeedshop.com/

 

1. A frozen heart grannys speed shop sells stuff for the conversion though (google it)
2. ehh, rebuilt or look around for a cheaper engine someone has...

 

Small block chevy conversions are those without imagination or talent.

 

Yeah...you should put the hamster motor in it!!

two hamsters that spin around there little excersice wheel...only problem is they blow up every 30k!! and cost $6k to replace!

 

I talked to a guy that own's a rotary speed shop and has been working on rx7's for 15+ years and i talked to him about me doing a 350 swap in a first gen and he told me that, unfortunately, the best way to have a rx7 making big horsepower while keeping drivability is to drop something besides a rotary in it. Even if you can get a rotary to make lots of horsepower reliably you still run into the problem of destroying transmissions. This guy then showed me a gear out of a trans that had all the teeth sheared off.

He told me that one of the best things to do would be to adapt a built T56 to a work with a nasty rotary and if you gonna do all that work you might as well just swap in a much nastier and more reliable and drivable v8.

and by big horsepower I don't mean around the 500 area.