Posted: 2/15/2003 6:35:57 PM EDT
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Quoted: Cool race car Is that your race car? Are you driving it? |
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Quoted: I go out for a few hours and look what happens: Someone raids my garage and steals my g/f. Man, I miss my cars! Nice shots, LG! Have fun? -934 |
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Quoted: Quoted: Cool race car Is that your race car? Are you driving it? I think they only made 25 of them: [img]http://www.carclassic.com/images8/CY60/CY60-4.jpg[/img] |
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Quoted: You cheated![:D] You know that's what I drive. Hah, you didn't note that the headlights are on but not raised and you are seeing them through the 'flash to pass' lense, so there. Hey, how is that cheating? I knew by the photo regardless if you (allegedly) provided the info prior. Sorry I didn't mention the FTP lights, I figured everyone would know anyway. [:D] -934 |
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Quoted: Dies that RX7 have a rotary motor Larry? Are you running a boost controller? I love all power adders..ESPECIALLY TWINS! No EBC on this one. The second gen RX7s did not have the twin turbo, just a two stage turbo. The 3rd gen had the twin turbo. I do have the Racing Beat exhaust, the injection has been tweaked, a lot of junk has been pulled off, and I run a K&N air filter. Even without the EBC, it's still making close to 300 HP as it is, out of 80 cubic inches. |
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Quoted: Quoted: You cheated![:D] You know that's what I drive. Hah, you didn't note that the headlights are on but not raised and you are seeing them through the 'flash to pass' lense, so there. Hey, how is that cheating? I knew by the photo regardless if you (allegedly) provided the info prior. Sorry I didn't mention the FTP lights, I figured everyone would know anyway. [:D] -934 Up to and including 88, the RX7 did not come with fog lights. Last summer, a lady backed over the nose so I had them put a 92 nose on it, complete with fog lights, from a wrecked 92 that a friend had. I had to wire it for the fog lights since there was no wiring provided. I wired it so I can run the fogs with just the parking lights. The 89 and later with the fog lights have to have the headlights on to run the fog lights. I am very pleased with the setup now. I also put in the later 2nd gen tail lights, the ones that are mostly red with the individual circular lights, instead of the slit type on the early 2nd gen. |
| Rotary motors are very interesting to me. Ive never opened one up but Ive heard they are hard to work on but can rev extremely high. I thought a dual stage turbo was for twins? One kicks on at a certain rpm and the other turbo at a higher speed or rpm? IVe always loved the idea of being able to adjust boost in the car...cant do that with a supercharger...at least I havnt made a way to do it yet[:D] |
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Quoted: Rotary motors are very interesting to me. Ive never opened one up but Ive heard they are hard to work on but can rev extremely high. I thought a dual stage turbo was for twins? One kicks on at a certain rpm and the other turbo at a higher speed or rpm? IVe always loved the idea of being able to adjust boost in the car...cant do that with a supercharger...at least I havnt made a way to do it yet[:D] Actually, the rotary is easy to work on. Instead of a block, you have 5 housings, a front housing, a center housing, a rear housing, and two rotor housings. You lay out either one of the end housings, insert O-rings into their proper places and stack the first rotor housing. It does get intricate with the O-rings between the housings. You have to have a steady hand and patience. Next, you insert the eccentric shaft, which acts as the crankshaft in a rotary. Now you assemble the seals onto the first rotor and insert it into the housing, aligning it with the eccentric shaft. Next comes the center housing with it's O-ring seals and you slide the eccentric shaft through it. Then you stack the second rotor housing, repeat the process for the second rotor, and then the end housing. You then insert the main oil seals on both ends of the eccentric shaft, insert these really long bolts, and secure the housings together with these long bolts. There are some ancilliary items on the outside, but that's about it. They are stacked together. Any mechanic worth his salt could learn it if he was interested in learining something new, but most are quite comfortable with their piston engines. Anyone who tells you they are complicated hasn't put one together. They are easier, no valves to adjust, no cam, thee internal moving parts. The most complicated parts on a rotary are the electronics, which is the case on any later model car. All the early models came with 4 barrel carbs and a lot of people put Holleys and other aftermarket performance carbs on them. |
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Quoted: Very cool custom job. Last time I drove an RX7 was a friend's turboed 12A first gen. Disgustingly fast. Too bad it was stolen. So many cars, so little time and garage space. -934 |