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03/13/2015 at 10:21 • Filed to: None
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Apparently this RX-7 got an '04 Holden/Vauxhall Monaro LS V8 and T-56 straight from a press car that crashed with only 450 miles on it. Did I mention it also has !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! thanks to a set of twin turbos? Many kudos to the owner for not wanting to screw with the factory body lines too much. It's also hilarious he originally bought this car with a blown motor simply because he liked the looks of the body and only knew that RX-7s typically blew their motors...which he originally fixed with a Rover V8.
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StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8
> daender
03/13/2015 at 11:24 |
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God that car is just perfect, sounds amazing too. Clean turbo set-up, and kept the lines looking perfect.
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> daender
03/13/2015 at 11:24 |
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What body lines are left intact? the roof? This is far from the cleanest RX7 I have seen pictures of... FD-3S RX-7s are one of the most gorgeous front-engined car designs ever... they don't need much of anything added on, and most add-ons are not aesthetic improvements.
And every time I see a V8-swapped RX7 because somebody takes the easy way out, instead of learning about the fascinating rotary engine, and building them correctly, reliably, and also driving and maintaining them properly, (and treating a rotary engine like a piston engine isn't doing it properly.)
It makes me want to put a 3 or 4 rotor engine in a classic early C3 Corvette, instead, as payback.
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daender
> BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
03/13/2015 at 12:49 |
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Unlike a V8-swapped RX-7, a Wankel-swapped Corvette C3 might get you shot/hanged in some parts of the South and Kentucky.