My Friend just got hit by a drunk driver last night. (He is okay) He offered me whats left of his 98' Corvette for $500. He was hit in the rear passenger side. So the engines and all of that stuffs okay.I was wondering if I should drop it in a 83' RX-7 that I already have the engine out of?


Please don't hate me to much for considering putting a V8 in my 7.


Thank You,

Jonathan

 

Answer---> no

 

If its what you want to do, hell yeah go for it, I have put some thought into a v8 2nd gen myself.... but be warned, there are alot of purists in this forum, and you should prepare your flame suit.....

 

The real question is, how long before this thread gets moved........

 

I hate you......

Come on man! A 98 Vette drivetrain is worth way more than $500. If nothing else, you could buy it and part it out. If this is a condition price, then that is a different story.

If you need convinced then you already know the answer.

 

there will be no "dropping in" about the project if that's what you decide to do.

 

The rear end has been pretty much taken off. So the engines pretty much the only thing worth taking and $500 is "his I'm sorry for blowing the engine that this one will be replacing" price. ( If that was confusing all it means is that he blew the 83's engine.)

 

if the engine is in good shape, get it. i doubt youll be able to put it into your first gen, but ill buy the engine long block, tranny, wiring harness, and ecu from you.

 

wait, is that LT1 or LS1?

 

Corvette is a LS1, camaro has the LT1. And I say go for it for 500 for the engine is well worth it.

 

Honestly, pick up a 3rd gen shell and put it in that. The suspension and drive train are already setup much better to handle the power and the LS1 seems to be the preferred V8 swap for the 3rd gens. Now before everyone gets their panties in a bunch, the swap is very do-able and has been done quite successfully with no weight or handling penalties.

For the die hard doubters and purists, read through the 'other engine swaps' section. I have no idea what the 98 engine puts out, but with some minor engine mods, along with beefing up the suspension, brakes, installing a TII tranny and beefing up the weak parts of the stock 3rd gen diff, if it doesn't smoke a mildly modded 3rd gen, it will quite handily keep up with it.

 

King I am having that same debate with myself right now! I have a 13b twin webbers. If You can pick up that ls1 for 500 you SURE as hell better do it! I am looking at around 3 grand for a swap with a 6 speed. The swap into an fb or sa is completely different from what I hear than an fc or fd. If you are stuck on it like I am,,, then you just have to deal with it. There is a v8 rx7 form with a guy named PYRO that has already done this swap, but from what I can confirm, he is the only person so far to have done it. Also, good luck with your stock rearend holding up to that much torque. I don't give it long. So be prepared for that too.

 

'98 camaro also had an LS1, IIRC '96 was the last year for the LT1 if not for sure '97.

I say do it if you have the skills to do it. For $500 for the after math of the 'vette and if you can actually afford this sort of project you'd be nuts not to... IMO

 

this will be a very expensive project. so..send it all to me

 

get it. if I read this right, he destroyed your 12a in your '83. Either sell off the parts and get a new 12a/13b/-re/-rew, or drop the money into putting in the LS1. I'm pretty sure that the '98 'vette had 350/350 out of it's 350.

 

if your curious about the ls1 fitting in it will the radiator needs to go pretty far up front but side to side there is plenty of room.... currently there are a couple that are supposedly "in the works" yet to see any pics but one guy "pyro" has definetly got an ls1 FB up and running.... this prolly isnt the forum your gonna find to much info in however....

 

that is a question for v8rx7forum.com

 

k it will fit in there, and I would personally say you would be better off putting it into a FC or FD. From what I have heard they take to it a bit nicer. But I know that 98 was a bad year for the LS1's and tranny's. Go to any LS1tech place and more often then not they will back that statement up. If worst comes to worst this is what I would do. Buy it for $500 and sell everything away and get more money to do a SIMPLER SBC conversion in yours car and make more power then a stock LS1. That is just my two cents on it and I have been part of 4 different rx v8 conversions 1 FB, 2 FC's, 1 FD

 

Mr. T is correct. Previous GRM Challengers and their slalom times on such V8 abominations has shown that the FC and FD cars remain competitive in regards to handling. There has yet to be an SA or FB GRM Challenger that stayed a good handler after any of the V8 swaps, and some of them were sporting the Granny's stuff.

 

There's nothing wrong with a 98' Ls1. There's guys on the corvette forum running 200-300k miles on their 97-99' Ls1 motors. I believe the 98' Corvette had a weird fuel pump system, but it had nothing to do with the motor itself. 2001 LS1/Ls6 corvette engines had problems burning oil because of the rings, but was only an annoyance and didn't hurt the motor itself.

I say get an FD shell and do the swap, or sell the motor setup to me so I can do the swap for my FD.

 

Doesn't the vette use a transaxel setup? wouldn't he need a T56 from a TA/ Camaro? I believe in the 3rd gen's the pullies on the Vette's are too wide as well? Someone please correct me if i'm wrong. (also when did they start using the throttle by wire deal?)

 

Yes you would need a transmission from a Camaro or Firebird(auto or 6spd), as the C5 has a transaxle transmission setup. However, I don't believe he's getting the corvette tranmission anyway, if I read his posts correctly. I couldn't tell you the differences in accessories or throttle by wire between corvettes and camaros as i don't have any experiences with the camaro/firebirds.

 

I'm sorry for not being able to reply to you guys sooner. But the site wasn't letting me in.

I already know what to do to get the engine in there. Except for a few things like fuel and the wiring harness; nothing important.

Some things I was worried about was the chassis stiffness. So I don't twist my frame like one of my friends did. I realy don't want to put another frame on.

There are now 3rd gen frames in reno trust me I've looked!!!

Thank you for your reply's

Jonathan