In 2000 I decided I wanted to repower this car, I wanted to go the turbo rotary route. Bought a 13B from a cosmo. And started on the mods to make it go. Ended up chopping the tunnel for the RX7 gear box and getting some nice customised celica struts for bigger brakes....
Anyway not much happened from there...other priorities. Last year I began where I left off, but changed my mind to go with a 20v Blacktop 4AGE engine, rather than the turbo rotor. My daily is a blacktop 4age powered Carib, and its a really nice engine. I'm just learning as i go, so made sense to have a working version to compare it to lol.
Here is the engine bay, chopped and all. Not beyond repair though.
I had done a fair bit of research, and new i was going to need to change the ignition to coil on plug. The modification is not particularly hard for this, but wanted to try it on a working engine, before i started fitting it to my car.
So i bought this 1999 Levin BZ-R for a donor. De-reg'd but still running and driving. Perfect for testing before pulling the engine out.
Coil on plug setup tested and working. Yay!
Video of startup. Very exciting.
https://youtu.be/UUzKnKyeOGM