Straitup D's RX7 Rebuild

[Straitup D]

no its not mine its my homies, but it looks like some of you hare have/had some of these odd things in the past.

the car is a 1983 mazda RX7 GXL i would give it 8.5 / 10 stars she is clean leather and NO RUST AT ALL

so two weeks ago he sold his supra ( the one that i was going to get ** linke goes here**) and some other things to get a new motor for his 83 rx7 that has been down since 05 and will be back on the streets. so with his loot that he got from selling some old shit he found a running but undrivable ( rust / old ) but the moror was sopost to have been rebuilt not long ago he plans on picking that up this next sat

well on mondays we have our guys nights so they can git away from there wives/GF's. so we took some parts off the car had a few beers and one of the guys, it was his first night out there, he was all fuck it man lets pull that thing out!!. not but an hr later he is on one side and i am on the other and we pulled it out

we where all amazed to get it out and so we tore it down till we found out that we did not have a big enough wrench to pull the block apart but oh well, we are one step closer to getting that classic back on the road.


ill get some more pics of this "Dusty Robot" this monday when i am over there, they will be up by like 3-5 am that night :lol:

and i will be updating this thread weekly




oh and BTW when his was running i had one and i also ran in o the new owner of it, it was kick ass, he even gave me a spin around the block in it

 

[Straitup D]

Week 2 Update

well it was a good night of wrenching. we have the motor ready to get pulled with teh exseption of the exhaust manifold, more of an update later, its late and i am sleepy.
the car that will be running

donor

and just for fun peep this mickys cap

 

[ij1889]

congrats guys on the rx7, should be a fun build

 

[keke]

Looking good. Can't wait for more updates.

 

[TsunamiTam]

hello fellow 83 rx7 owner!
i also have an 83 but mine is the lowest base model
(no sunroof..no anything...)
im planning on swapping the current 12a-carb. for a 13b-t, next spring.
i might have missed this but what are u plans for the engine?
rebuild? 13b? 20b?

 

[Straitup D]

he is taking the motor out of the 80 and swapping it into the 83, ill have more of an update soon, and i might get a 12a to put into the old chassy so i can try my hand at drifting

 

[Straitup D]

week 3 and 4 updates

yup, we did not get shit done last night

but last week we pulled the motor and stripped it down to the bare block. seeing a small roadblock that there are 2 small ports on the exhaust side that are not on the '83 motor. a quick call to racing beat to see what there flanges are like we will not have any problums with the exhaust. so all of the gaskits are going to be getting picked up next week and this project will be on hold until after deer season

and more pic's cuz pics are fun !!!!!!


thurmal reactor (sp) what the fuck look at all of the ports that come out of the manifold !?!?!?!? :zoiks:

and the motors are made in Hiroshima japan
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its hard to see but only 58K on the car

motor from the 83 (blowen) see the exhaust ports, only the 2 larger ones

see the two extra holes next to the other ones, that was our small hold up