Evan

Yeah it makes it a complete bolt in swap (with the use of longer bolts through the chassis rails). its 100% reversible. There's some more mounts on the rear of the subframe still to come, will see more of that when the engine mount set up is done.

Hello, someone asked for an update so here's one. Between finishing my degree last year and paying down student debt not much time/$$ was allocated/able to be justified on this thing, until 2 weeks ago! I purchased some steel about a month ago and then, 2 weeks ago, dorted around to Haydens (4age mini guy) with the FC subframe and said steel with the intention of pointing at things, saying some stuff and hopefully ending up with subframe that had an FC centre and tubed side bits. Well Haydens old man got all curious as to what we were doing and was all 'nah mate just chop that bit out and put that 50x50 RHS you got there back in its place'.... ok then. First up the subframe was welded to a steel frame table thing, with extra bits to locate the suspension pick up points. If you look there, the top of the back half of the subframe is ~18mm below the top of the front half. First gen rx7s don't have that drop in their chassis rails, the common solution is to put a spacer on the back, but because we are using a bit of 50x50 to replace the whole side we don't have the need for the spacer. also the distance between the top of the front of the subframe and the top of the front A arm mount is also 50mm, which is convenient. Around now words were said as to whether or not the subframe was square, measurements were taken and we decided it was. more measuring was done before the grinder came out. *sitting next to a first gen crossmember And then the chopping began, followed by a test fit of 50x50 RHS success. The same was then repeated for the other side, the rear A arm mounts have been replaced and some holes were drilled in the RHS to bolt it up with the chassis. Lots more measuring and all the bits were glued together before the whole lot was cut off the table. The result: A test fit was done today, It slotted right in. And one sides worth of FC arms/hubs/struts were test fit for good measure So far its working, but its not yet finished, coming up next is the engine mounts. After that I have to see if the certifier likes it, they haven't seen any of this yet so it may be a fail...

hold on, there should be an update in a couple of days if everything that's being worked on right now goes to plan...

I thought this thing was sold? Just put factory shit back in it and be done with it.

I'm coming down for the warbirds.

Logan is on here. //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/user/11121-mkii-gte/

I'm going to have to miss this! will be heading to Beach Hop. See you next month!

I yarned to Arrow about this at the CRC Speedshow late last year (or whenever it was) and they said yea no worries. Talk about mixed signals.

comissions 15%(?), freight for an engine was $300 from memory. + whatever freight in Japan costs. Anyway you going to flick it as a rolling body?

Its a bit of a gamble but would it be worth considering rolling the dice on an import block? something like this, they recon its done 40k, buy now at just under $700. http://page19.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/x321827241

A j160 rx8 6 speed will be fine behind a 12a. Its the speedo drive that'll make it not worth pissing around with.

RX8's don't have a speedo drive in the gearbox, they get their speedo reading off the ABS sensors on the wheels. looked into it awhile ago, would have to fiddle with things/make something up to make the speedo work.

yea but ideally it sounds like he wants to take the mazda donk out? Personally I think it would be cooler to have a BMW 4 or 6 in it rather than a Japanese something. but thats just my 2c

I vote no cross-breeding

Oh this week? sounds good to me.

I vote vents.

I watched a couple of youtube vids on this process a couple weeks back when you said you were going to do this. They all (well most of them) said to dry the part with a heatgun/blowtorch/something hot rather than let it dry on its own, hitting it with a gun apparently stops it from starting to rust straight away, I guess it burns off any residue or something? Maybe try doing that and see what happens? looks like a rad way of doing this regardless.

Are you going??

you got the rxxxxx or rrrrrrx or whatever it is one didn't you? its pretty tidy.

wana roll it in with the Auckland meet or na?

Yea was a pretty good show, that silver rx7 rules. I should of said hi but I was waddling around with some other people so didnt get the chance.

Yea I should be able to make it if I remember.

I just searched 'cosworth' the other day to see what would come up and it did...

I'll just leave this here http://page12.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/p375057263

sing out if you want a auto sparky and I can give you a number for a guy I know (he's a self employed mobile auto sparky) he should be able/willing to help.