Updates? I'd like to see more pictures of the car ...

 

okokok so we want an update!
pics!
pics speak a thousand words!
more pics!


hope its going well for you, thats a HUGE project.

 

After starting 4 threads about this project, he's selling the whole thing. Pretty freakin lame if you ask me.

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.php?t=560883

 

Looks like he gave up on it. I liked the idea,but wondered why try and reinvent the wheel. Meaning why not do the tried and true LS1 swap and be done in just a few months with no special parts? Whenever you buy a rare JDM engine and try to make a hybrid car of course your going to spend a ton of money and get hardle anything back in return upon resale. Thats 95% of the reason I stuck with a domestic engine...was tired of special ordering mazda parts and paying a fortune! Anyone looking to do a engine swap in a RX-7 should read this and reconsider that rare..cool JDM engine!

 

Seems to me that the hard part is done. He has the cradle and tranny mounts already fabbed up. The rest should be fairly easy.........or am I missing something.

 

Some people like a challenge and some people like to play it safe and let other take on the challenge and when you "no special parts" there was a time when somebody thought you no what would be cool a ls1 in a rx-7 at that point they where reinventing the wheel and when building at least my car i dont think of it well if i sell it this mod or swap will make worth less or more i just do it to make my car more enjoyable to me. But to each his own

 

I think I agree,but dont completely understand you. Is english your second language?

 

SO close to being done with most of the hard **** out of the way. What a shame

 

I understand what you're saying, but keep in mind, one of the other primary benefits of the LSx setups is that they actually fit under the hood. No moving crossmembers, no pounding firewalls, no custom hoods. 2-3 hours building some mounts and it just fits. 2J not so much.

 

I know he can't make the full swap

 

that sucks , i was looking forward to seeing one of these done .......damn

 

How is the 2Jz coming along. Is their any pics of the stock hood closed with the 2JZ in it? I am thinking of doing this swap as well.

 

even Sp engineering didn't use stock hood

 

I guess nobody has used the stock hood.....

 

look at a turbo horn inside the nose ...

 

Well that sucks. I wonder if you can set the engine lower with a dry sump style setup.

 

God, that is ugly...and fast. ehehe

 

BEAUTIFUL! I think it's great that you are building your dream car. I just recently finished a 2jz project myself. And I know all too well that when you do something like this you are bound to catch some heat. Last year I swapped and RWD converted a 1st Gen DSM. It was my first car and when the 4g63 puked her guts out at 160mph I couldn't just let her die! And I was tired of losing to supras on the freeway so I dropped in a 2jz. Needless to say the DSM community was a little less accepting than I thought they would be. Anyway, long story short. Awesome build! Awesome attitude! send me some pics if you got em' and maybe a vid or 2, this looks like it can be a fun project to take on.

 

ancient thread...........! and its dead.

 

who said its done?? i dodnt remember telling anyone its over!!!! i sold the SHELL not the project and got a new car for the swap!!! so for those of you who have a hard time with the search here you go!!

 

How dare you build your dream car! What an arrogant, ignorant bastard you are. God will punish you severely......

You know I love RX7s. I have owned many and own one right now. I almost stuck an LSX motor in my GTUs. I am going 20B N/A. I just find these RX7 fundamentalist to almost be pathetic. I think it says a lot about society. People can find anything to get pissed at. I myself am a Gearhead first, Rotaryhead second. It is all about your own way and g-force. I want a LSX FD so bad I almost at times wish I had just bought one of the many for sale now.

Good luck with the project. Glad to see your still moving forward.

"Anyone can restore a car, it takes a real man to chop one up."

 

I shut my mouth. My apologies. Glad to see this is still going

 

Nice Car. Best of luck with it. I can't wait to see it finished.

 

Does anyone sell the 2jz engine cradle? Is that the main difference between the LSx conversion?

 

From reading the forums, it seems that the LS conversion also moves the steering rack and needs spacers to eliminate bump steer.

Will this work for the 2jz conversion as well? Why does it seem like the 2jz conversion is doomed to live with bump steer vs. the LS conversion?