I was with nothing to do today and being tired of driving my maverick I figured I would go look at a few cars

well took a look at this 91 Z-28 today and took it for a spin and this 1st gen Rx-7 pulls up on me and I throw the rev at him figure ah ha I gonna kick his *** bad


well at the launch we spun the tires and so did I not used to low end power.
though he spun a bit longer then I

well I start to pull from him and before the car shifted me into first I had a tad bit on him though he I look over and the guy if friggen gaining on me

by the time we hit about 80 he had about 2 cars on me and I was like WTF?

come to find out the bastard was not stock at all

he pulled the orig motor out and did a lot of HEAVY porting. made the thing a periphrial port. the guy was claiming something like a 10krpms redline.
the car hs been worked out and had some weight reduction
think he was talking something like 240hp in a 2100lb car

though next race I took was a honda SI and well.... he kinda lost


the stuff you do with cars from a car lot

I love sleeper cars,after I get my 5.7 IROC I am going to buy a cheap Gremlin or Pinto and drop a huge motor in it and a quiet muffler on it just for $hits and giggles.

the guy was not quite at all but then again if you have heard a rotary with a free flow exhaust you know that it is not going ot be quite

though I should have figured
sounded like a bad miss if you ask me though now that I think about the idle was almost like a chainsaw with a huge *** lumpy cam in it

Odd...my friend has an RX-7 around the same year as yours, speed....of course, it's still got all the legal exhaust crap on it for emissions....it's probably one of the quietest cars I've heard. (around 6k the rotary gets that great humming sound; quite cool). It needs some major body help, but we still took it out a few times before winter....affixed a pair of empty Pringles cans with the dualies out the back and cut off the ends, went out and toasted some rice....must suck to be beaten by a Pringles Powered car. :lala:

You gotta love the sound of a ported out 12A motor. Chainsaw is the closest way of describing it. But they do gain some wicked torque with the porting. My buddy had one with a Porshe body kit and a modded 12A. No joke about reving to 10 grand. After you port that motor it pulls hard all the way up there. Its like a valve job, head job, and cam swap all in one...and it only takes a little time and a grinder. Talk about gearing too, my firstgen had 4.1x gears, and a first gear that hit 8 grand at about 20mph.

Come on speed, when you gonna port your motor? Have you decided what to do with the 87 yet? Are you putting a new motor in?

-peace

well the N/A is back in
and that thing is not running right

so..... still working on it
prolly missed a snesor or have a vac leak so going to do a run down of everything sometimes soon


but if and when I get the new driveline I am going to rebuild the turbo motor I have and do some nice porting to it

just need to get the bugs worked out a little better this time when I put the turbo in

and you know something

swapping motors sux, but it is goign to be a while before I get the turbo setup back b/c I am tired of breaking u joins and tranny parts.

From my understanding, the 13B is a bitch to port, a very delicate job at least. The thing that's so great about rotaries is that torque band... it's pretty much flat, slowly heading up to it's peak... stackability is also cool, what I want to know is when that 4 rotor :hail: 2.6L is going in man. (550 Hp anyone?) That would be good for low 10's :rockon: Oh well, I would easily beleive a 10k rev, the things do 7k stock.

it's the 6port 13b that is a bitch

the 4 port turbo motor is not that bad though if you go too far you start going into the water seal or the piece that holds the corner seal up.. not going there...
just going for a nice large street port


and you get a PP where both intake and exhaust are in the rotor housing it is like putting a HUGE *** cam in your car, and doing massive port work on the heads

problem is the idle has a pulse at about 1500-2000 rpms just like a car with a big cam.... but when the rpms pick up those things take off


and Azure if your friends car is quiet it is b/c he is prolly still running the stock muffs with the three inline cats on the car
and the stock manifold is the biggest POS I have ever seen

you put a header on with a straight pipe and the cars get a lot louder

able to hear me about 3 blocks away on my stock port with nothing more then a header, and pre-silencer


damn chainsaw

I'd believe that, though I still love the quietness...lol....perhaps I just enjoy the change, I dunno. Saw your full stock RX, looks a lot like Dennis'.....

yeah kinda miss it myself


car is LOUD


but stock it's not that bad even when you get on it

If you guys ever get the chance to go see the SCCA ProRally, do it, I highly recomend taking along car guy friends, might not be a good day out for a non-car interested gf. Not only is if fun (and Free!!), but there is a highly modded RX7 that runs it. All the turbo cars there were running rich, but this guy's car was in a league of its own! All the others you could here from about 1/4 mile away (remember this is in the quiet woods). You could hear that thing back firing like you wouldn't believe from about 1/2 mile away. Then you hear it spool up, must have been up near 10k wow.

BTW, you will see more WRXs (non-us spec) and evos of varying generations per sq mile there than anywhere else in the country.

I just went to the one in Atlanta MI (i live in MI and never heard of it before) last weekend and I think that rallying has to be one of the greatest tests of skill (driver) and trust (navigator) ou there.