Pics of my current winter project
 

Dropped it in tonight for a test fit. A few things I need to do before I can bolt it in:

-Slot the engine cradle a tad to make lining the engine mounts up easier.
-Relocate the HUGE Racing Beat swaybar down to clear the oil pan.
-Remove stock exhaust manifolds
-Check tranny tunnel clearance

Once I take care of those few odds and ends, I can bolt it in and start working on the easy stuff. WHEEE!!!

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Yes, it's an LT1. Yes, it's a 6 speed. Yes, it's a 10th Anniversary. Yes, it will be fast :)

Excuse me while I go and have a flame suit tailored for me. :)

Screw the flamers, that is awesome. I'd shake your hand if I met you in person. :bigthumb:

I was wondering why I saw a leveler when the pictures were loading.

It looks like ur old FMIC is still in there, hmmmmmm, had another one blow on you eh? I've got about two rebuilds left in me before I drop a V8 in my FC once and for all.

the first picture makes your headers look like a custom exhaust job (exhasut out of fender)

very nice, what tranny you putting behind that?

88Integra - Yes. I've had one too many rotaries pop on me. This one popped a week and one day after I bought it. (Dale Clark's old car)

It put down 371HP to the wheels though before it bit the dust.

ls1hybrid - It's a 95 LT1/T56 combo. Should be good for 0% traction until I go wodebody. :)

grannys kit?

Haha, I've got a 327 waiting for the day i get bored enough to do this. Thankfully I've yet to lose a rotary engine, although I'm sure I should have (17psi on a 180k mile high compression engine, shouldn't live THAT long should it!?). Should make for an interesting show at the drag track when people expect a fairly slow import .

Nice, indeed.

I noticed a conspicuous lack of flamage here-

Are we getting soft on this here forum? :D

No, people have just finally started popping engines and understand peoples frustrations at times when they have an excessive string of bad luck. :)

i think a v8 conversion would be kinda cool.... not for me. ill stick with rotary. but go for it. it looks cool and will be fast as hell

Yeah no suprise mine popped huh sonicrat? oh well i told u it was all temporary. maybe its time for a V8! or not, i got RA seals. lil bit cheaper than a lt1.

I was amazed yours made it so long, with how ghetto-fabulous half of the setup was, I really thought it was going to be short-lived, was hard to figure out WTF that car was wanting to do since most of the wiring was replaced/changed/etc.

We are getting soft.

I think the first thing that I thought about once I saw the TB and noticed it was a V8 was..

"I wonder what that thing is gonna sound like at the lights?"

damn, must sound very interesting to a guy beside him who knows thats no normal import ;)

Thanks for the kudos guys!

I'm tempted to keep it import looking as much as I can. I wonder how the LT1 will sound through the N1 GT-Spec?

Yeah, it's a Granny's kit. I should have bought the Hinson cradle, but oh well.

Only complaints so far:

Needs a better cradle design. The routing of the power steering hardlines through the cradle is a bitch and you have to tweak the lines here and there. I would also slot the engine cradle and supply engine mounts with studs sticking out. Trying to manhandle an engine on a hoist and lining up the holes in the cradle with the threads in the engine mounts is ridiculous. Slot them horizontally and provide engine mounts with studs! You're done!

Other than that, it's been pretty straight forward. They didn't mention you have to remove the steering rack though! I didn't have to totally remove it, but just remove all the brackets and pick it up a bit as part of the kit had to go under the steering input shaft. Bolted down, there was NO room for it to fit.

Can we at least have a moment of silence for Dale Clark's old car??? *sniff sniff*

OR, the lack of doing things properly!

I respect D. Clark; but I never liked his upgrading methods :(

A 10th... you son of a bitch!! ;)

That is excellent. :) Very nice....keep us posted.

Crusty is LS1-bound, and I've got my eye on another 10AE shell to do the same to..... muhaha.

I love it! Exactly what I am going to do except LS1 instead of LT1...

got the busted 10th anny

need the LS1 and a garage haha

Hahaha... I've started a trend! Stay away you bandwagon jumpers!!! :)

haha, i've been wanting to do it for a VERY long time...

just finally found the right car to do it on... being in college kinda cuts back on fun time in making most of the rx-7 community hate you for throwing away the "soul" of the car :rlaugh:

Wow, this is great no flammage...Already saw your car on torquecentral...very nice

Dale's car deserves better than a V8 swap. Sorry, Ive just known the car for about 4 years now and all the hell its gone through and accomplished. To each his own.... However I've never ridden in a V8 that goes like a 20B. Its a 10th anny I'd just rather see it with it's own blood type, not 1 out of 1500 gone to the darkside.

My .02

how come you left the I/C and piping in there? seems kinda lazy :)

Well, it would be lazy if I was going to roll the LT1 as an N/A :)

hahah, actually I have the kit sold to a local guy and he wants to swap it over to his car while they are side by side so if he has to do any cutting or bending, he can see exactly what needs to be done. I'm just waiting on him to return from vacation.

Likely because it's at least 100 times easier to bolt the motor and transmission in the car together, and doing that without someone to push down on the transmission will accomplish nothing but a bent tailshaft and a hole in the firewall :D


Car looks nice, looks like it's coming along great. For your motor mount issue, I got mine in by leaving the motor mount plates on the block loose until I got the lower mount studs through the cradle and got the nut on them. It took some pry bar action and a few cuss workds, but it really wasn't that bad. Once you get the studs to drop in, tighten everything down and it will be fine without slotting the cradle. Slotting it won't really hurt (unless you REALLY slot it) but it's not required.

As for the power steering, my car doesn't have it so I can't really help ya there. But good luck :bigthumb:

Looks Great!! I would have loved to do the LT1, but $200 was too good to pass up on a 98 Vortec. I like the Fuel Injection, but I think that using a carb is going to be a whole lot simpler and cheaper.

And I already have my windshield sticker picked out: FRIED RICE

Later,
Bill

Lookin' good!

hey how does the car handle?????
hows the weight?

i hear people always saying that it will be to heavy but then again i hear people saying the engine is about the same weight

o and is the gas milage better then a 13bt?!?!?

It's not running yet. I should be finished with it by the weekend.

The weight is fine. I measured fender drop before and after and it didn't drop at all in the front. I've driven an old school all-iron Chevy powered 2nd gen and rode in an LT1 powered 'vert. Both felt like there was no change in handling.

The LT1 vert gets 24mpg in town and 26-28 on the highway.