you dont even need a 20b you could have just gone 13b re which is a beast that what ima do rortary is king!!! v8 are cool to but rotary can take more abuse!!
Most of the major car manufacturers bought rights to make this engine, its a shame they didn't bring the technology and reliability to the rotary. 5.0s are cheap, reliable power houses, coupled with a t5 or c4 tranny they are virtually unstoppable. Very compact as well, if you could mount it far enough back in the bay you could get close to the original balance of the chassis. Ford and Mazda are pretty much one and the same now so kudos on this swap.
very cool man i am putting a 350sbc in my 1982 rx7 right now but i am doing every thing my self i made my motor mounts and trans mount i kinda wish i would have just got the grannys kit but its to late for that now what kind of changes have you done to the car since 07 if i may ask
I haven't done anything as far as upgrades, the chassis has like 250k miles and it's really starting to show. Chasing electrical gremlins and fixing the clutch linkage which has bent/broken countless times at nearly every point in the system, is keeping me pretty busy. Motor rebuild/e303 cam and solid axle 4 link in the uprade schedule for the future.
@metalmanga and I'm sure a 20b would cost less than a domestic v8... oh yeah, and be smog legal like my 7... oh yeah, and have parts so readily available that I could actually buy them in the U.S. maybe I should have gone 20b... LOL
@metalmanga your an idiot you can pull way more hp out of a v8 than you can a 4 cyl or rotor iv seen people with hondas an stuff talk about how fast they are and i ask how many times have you blown the engines its always more than 3>! Asked a guy with a 650hp trans am the same thing he said iv had it for about 4 years now no problems. he takes it racing once a month in alabama running low 10;s and high 9's
@Jizzo13945 there is a 20B 3rotor Rx-7 that runs high 6's from Australia, you can get around 600-700hp out of the 20B without blowing it in a racing configuration with a moderate amount of boost, also if your aiming to build a race car you have to think about other things like balance and not just how much horsepower you can jam into the car, and if you just want an everyday car i don't see a point in getting over 500hp since its illigal in most countires, also the rotary engine is alot lighter.
@metalmanga you can pull 2,000 out of a 4.6 litre ford engine so 600 or 700 dosent really compair does it? more cylenders = more torque u can build a 4 cly to have mad power with very low torque say 300 hp with 190 ft lbs torque. v8s 300hp is matched by 305 ft lbs torque. and i know you honda nerds on here have somthing to say about weight and all that other bs think of what its like driving a car with the seats and doors on it with out sacrificing speed that would be great wouldent it?
Fuente doesn't know reality. I have seen plenty of transplanted rx7 sell for quite a bit more money v.s. having the stock engine. Once a rotard always a rotard.
It is once in a blue moon that you get a blown apex seal. My toyota wagon has 304k miles on it and still runs strong. Yes, Toyota Corolla wagon. RWD. Heavily modified.
Rotaries, th 13B in particular are guaranteed to die and will require rebuilds that you have to do yourself or get someone who knows rotaries (which is hard since the RX is the only recent car that uses this motor) and expensive, that's why you see so many people ditches there RX-7 for other cars or get a motor swap.
Uhh, my Toyota wagon has a rotary. 304k miles on it also. There are tons of people who know either very little, like you, and people who know tons about rotary engines, like me for instance and i know tons of people from all over who know tons about them.
Wow. You are stupid. There isn't a word that describes how stupid you really are. Go somewhere else and bitch about cars. Actually, I rebuilt the dash myself and put a very low mileage odometer in there when i did the build. It isn't even the chassis that the body came with. Don't go around spouting off shit you don't even know about. Anyone can tell you that a stock 89 corolla chassis is not RWD or even AWD. You need to own up to the truth that rotary engines are in fact very reliable.
Yeah yerboogieman, and I have an F16, F18 and F22 all sitting on my USS Big Dick air craft carrier.
See how easy that was over the internet? Even proud owners can tell you that they can't just roll an rotary powered car up into any garage to get the engine worked on, these motors aren't know to fail early because they hit "304k" like you claim it doesn't work like that, so keep talking out the ass and stay in denial.
to clarify... the "grinding" noise is not a grinding at all, it's the loose exhaust brackets on the h-pipe rattling like crazy, car just passed smog last week BTW lol in CA! and the weight balance issue has been debated and put to rest, aluminum hood, heads+batt relocation and ur good to go
When you gave it a little throttle near hte end of your video i swear to god it sounded like a hungry beast. sweet i think u just sold me on the v8 rx7 idea as soon as i can sell my civic
rotaryknowitall , the car is probably not " off balance " . Do some research , the vast majority of V8 RX7's handle just as as good as a rotary powered RX7 .
All that hard work to make very powerful very fast very fun to drive sports car .
It actually stays relatively the same. After a 302 swap it still weighs the same as a turbo. I know it stays close to 50/50 but i cant give you the exact ratio off the top of my head.
@DC2slammed Your cat has more up votes than your Integra. Lawl
winstonwolf88 4 weeks ago
peice of shit
DC2slammed 4 weeks ago
i know a rotary guy. he went ls1 cuuusssss.......... "rotarys are unreliable"
and in my opinion they sound GAY.
420CARiNA 3 months ago
sounds badass
WasabiMeal 5 months ago
you dont even need a 20b you could have just gone 13b re which is a beast that what ima do rortary is king!!! v8 are cool to but rotary can take more abuse!!
fc88se 6 months ago
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U fuck, why
mudaphucker 6 months ago
Rotaryisgarbage-aji8 you are a complete cock and no one, v8 or rotary fans wants to hear your faggoty opinions.
dreamseller01 9 months ago
good work. Can see the reasoning in the states to do a v8 into a 7 due to a lack of rotary workshops and parts. And the fact that 8's are cheap.
dreamseller01 9 months ago
Congrats, you much improved the car. The rotary engine is junk.
Rotaryisgarbage 1 year ago
Most of the major car manufacturers bought rights to make this engine, its a shame they didn't bring the technology and reliability to the rotary. 5.0s are cheap, reliable power houses, coupled with a t5 or c4 tranny they are virtually unstoppable. Very compact as well, if you could mount it far enough back in the bay you could get close to the original balance of the chassis. Ford and Mazda are pretty much one and the same now so kudos on this swap.
battleborn7 1 year ago
V8 YEHA IS CHEAP BUT HAVE MORE TORKE!!! 20B NOT CHEAP!!! AND IS TOOOOOOOO FRAGIL!!!
MIGUELOKS2000SPIDER 1 year ago
did you do the swap your self?
ssonosk 1 year ago
damn that shit sounds so mean
ssonosk 1 year ago
what up winston, i am having overheating problems with mine. also the shifter gets hot in about 10mins. can you giveme some advice?
Sleepa75 1 year ago
very cool man i am putting a 350sbc in my 1982 rx7 right now but i am doing every thing my self i made my motor mounts and trans mount i kinda wish i would have just got the grannys kit but its to late for that now what kind of changes have you done to the car since 07 if i may ask
egokiller73 1 year ago
I haven't done anything as far as upgrades, the chassis has like 250k miles and it's really starting to show. Chasing electrical gremlins and fixing the clutch linkage which has bent/broken countless times at nearly every point in the system, is keeping me pretty busy. Motor rebuild/e303 cam and solid axle 4 link in the uprade schedule for the future.
winstonwolf88 1 year ago
v8 doesnt make the car better, its cheap hp yes, but if u put a real rotary engine like 20b it will smoke that whatever you do!
metalmanga 1 year ago
@metalmanga and I'm sure a 20b would cost less than a domestic v8... oh yeah, and be smog legal like my 7... oh yeah, and have parts so readily available that I could actually buy them in the U.S. maybe I should have gone 20b... LOL
winstonwolf88 1 year ago 10
@winstonwolf88 LOL v8 ftw, i might be pickin up a v8 7 soon as well. :)
bootsmonster22 1 year ago
@metalmanga your an idiot you can pull way more hp out of a v8 than you can a 4 cyl or rotor iv seen people with hondas an stuff talk about how fast they are and i ask how many times have you blown the engines its always more than 3>! Asked a guy with a 650hp trans am the same thing he said iv had it for about 4 years now no problems. he takes it racing once a month in alabama running low 10;s and high 9's
Jizzo13945 1 year ago
@Jizzo13945 there is a 20B 3rotor Rx-7 that runs high 6's from Australia, you can get around 600-700hp out of the 20B without blowing it in a racing configuration with a moderate amount of boost, also if your aiming to build a race car you have to think about other things like balance and not just how much horsepower you can jam into the car, and if you just want an everyday car i don't see a point in getting over 500hp since its illigal in most countires, also the rotary engine is alot lighter.
metalmanga 1 year ago
@metalmanga you can pull 2,000 out of a 4.6 litre ford engine so 600 or 700 dosent really compair does it? more cylenders = more torque u can build a 4 cly to have mad power with very low torque say 300 hp with 190 ft lbs torque. v8s 300hp is matched by 305 ft lbs torque. and i know you honda nerds on here have somthing to say about weight and all that other bs think of what its like driving a car with the seats and doors on it with out sacrificing speed that would be great wouldent it?
Jizzo13945 1 year ago
<3 rotors
mackinmall 2 years ago
your really grinding a lot!!
ham1908t 2 years ago
Sounds just like what my 95 5.0 sounded like with no mufflers on it.
I was actually thinking about buying a second Gen rx7 and puting a 5.0 in it.
stangalltheway 2 years ago
You havven't been right all this time you have been consistanly mocking rotary engines on youtube,
and you still arren't.
So please stop this ridicules farce that you are turning this into,
the only thing you are gonna acomplish by continuing this is to ridicule yourself even further.
Now its said,
from now on try using that brain of yours.
Thats what its there for. ;)
FunteX 2 years ago
So insted of wasting our time go fin someone that knows even less about engines (piston and rotary alike) than ya'self to shout at.
Only problem is, such a person does not exist.
You are the bottom of the barrel rokkie,
and with the atitude you are putting up just trying to trumph trough some facts that you have made up in you own head,
you are gonna stay a rokkie
So im gonna say this one more time,
go study a bit on the subject,
and get you facts straigt and stop sprouting noncense . . .
FunteX 2 years ago
(aji8 )
LOL if you belive that fine, youre the only one kiddo. =)
You fail as miserably as you have allways done.
Every post you have made in this thread yet is garble.
But go ahead and ridicule yaself even more ya' amatuere.
The only liar here is you and in every tread you have posted you bullshit in here on youtube you have been royaly pwned every time.
No matter what you say and how you whine in responce to this, it wont change the reality that this is a FACT.
FunteX 2 years ago
Fuente doesn't know reality. I have seen plenty of transplanted rx7 sell for quite a bit more money v.s. having the stock engine. Once a rotard always a rotard.
aji8 2 years ago
@aji8 you a fagtard go get an education trailer trash
JamaicanBoy41 1 year ago
are you in colorado
matt921 2 years ago
I bet this owner is very happy that he won't have to worry about blown apex seals any more. This car is cool!!
Rotary is junk.
aji8 2 years ago
It is once in a blue moon that you get a blown apex seal. My toyota wagon has 304k miles on it and still runs strong. Yes, Toyota Corolla wagon. RWD. Heavily modified.
yerboogieman 2 years ago
LOL...another rotary liar. You mean full moon, not blue one. Rotary goes pop often and needs a piston engine to replace it.
aji8 2 years ago
Just for everyone else to know,
my RX (the one i sold) stil had a wankel ofcourse.
Just a slightly more powerfull one . . . :P
FunteX 2 years ago
(aji8)
I am so sorry to have to prove you wrong once again little kid.
But the only thing failed here is the V8's.
I actualy just sold her of to another collector, for quite a big sum. =)
Something that you could never get for selling your mistreated and ruined RX. ;)
But then again you have no experiance or knowlage on the subject so thats not surprise ofcourse.
Any more makebelief nonsen you want to send over to be proven sonny. =)
You failed yet again kid . . . . ;)
FunteX 2 years ago
Ignore him, he Constantly goes around to all rotary videos and says rotaries are junk. He doesn't know anything, really.
yerboogieman 2 years ago
Rotaries are just junk motors. Car is MUCH better now.
aji8 2 years ago
(aji8)
Ah wrong agin i se kiddo.
Go back to you junk V8's Tardo. =)
FunteX 2 years ago
LOL..and go back to your failed rotary that is broken. The car runs reliably now. Sorry you can't accept the truth.
aji8 2 years ago
That thing sounded like it needed a tune up bad. Rotaries are much more reliable.
yerboogieman 2 years ago
welcome..
-sctrep-
sctrep 2 years ago
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Gay gay gay. Get a rotary!
fuknhel 2 years ago
Rotaries, th 13B in particular are guaranteed to die and will require rebuilds that you have to do yourself or get someone who knows rotaries (which is hard since the RX is the only recent car that uses this motor) and expensive, that's why you see so many people ditches there RX-7 for other cars or get a motor swap.
SpikeRazzor 2 years ago
Uhh, my Toyota wagon has a rotary. 304k miles on it also. There are tons of people who know either very little, like you, and people who know tons about rotary engines, like me for instance and i know tons of people from all over who know tons about them.
yerboogieman 2 years ago
LOL..304K maybe on the chassis, but lord knows how many rotarys you have put in there. They are junk. You need to own up to the truth.
aji8 2 years ago
Wow. You are stupid. There isn't a word that describes how stupid you really are. Go somewhere else and bitch about cars. Actually, I rebuilt the dash myself and put a very low mileage odometer in there when i did the build. It isn't even the chassis that the body came with. Don't go around spouting off shit you don't even know about. Anyone can tell you that a stock 89 corolla chassis is not RWD or even AWD. You need to own up to the truth that rotary engines are in fact very reliable.
yerboogieman 2 years ago
Same engine since the build.
yerboogieman 2 years ago
Not re-done or anything, just very well taken care of. So get off the computer and tell your mom to make you another sandwich or something. Dumbass.
yerboogieman 2 years ago
LOL..just watch the vid and learn moron. Car is much better now with the piston engine.
aji8 2 years ago
Yeah yerboogieman, and I have an F16, F18 and F22 all sitting on my USS Big Dick air craft carrier.
See how easy that was over the internet? Even proud owners can tell you that they can't just roll an rotary powered car up into any garage to get the engine worked on, these motors aren't know to fail early because they hit "304k" like you claim it doesn't work like that, so keep talking out the ass and stay in denial.
SpikeRazzor 2 years ago
to clarify... the "grinding" noise is not a grinding at all, it's the loose exhaust brackets on the h-pipe rattling like crazy, car just passed smog last week BTW lol in CA! and the weight balance issue has been debated and put to rest, aluminum hood, heads+batt relocation and ur good to go
winstonwolf88 2 years ago
thats a sick car but that grinding sound horrible
acstreetracer69 2 years ago
that bitch just walked out in front of dude like he wasnt pulling into the parking lot i wouldve run over her ass lol
tbirdpimp07 2 years ago
sounds good your always going to get haters remember that.... nevermind them
coke1078 3 years ago
I'll race you with my rx7 :) see video
jedsmart 3 years ago
that car is the shit
courageous917 3 years ago
its only a 60 lb. difference.
bpowersman5000 3 years ago
Dude...
shadystang27 3 years ago
Well, at least it will be reliable haha
abominableaussieman 3 years ago 4
That's awesome and sounds great... except for that grinding noise; that'd be worrying me a bit.
662892bbl 3 years ago
Oh no the Po Po! LOL...awesome car...
enigmajoe2002 3 years ago
When you gave it a little throttle near hte end of your video i swear to god it sounded like a hungry beast. sweet i think u just sold me on the v8 rx7 idea as soon as i can sell my civic
tekkaboy80 4 years ago
rotaryknowitall , the car is probably not " off balance " . Do some research , the vast majority of V8 RX7's handle just as as good as a rotary powered RX7 .
All that hard work to make very powerful very fast very fun to drive sports car .
cn22nc 4 years ago 2
greaat job.
what the fuck is all that scraping and metal noise? sounds like a tail pipe dragging...lol
shogunlpc 4 years ago 2
all that hard work just to knock the car off balance and fuck up its handleing....
rotaryoutlaw 4 years ago
It actually stays relatively the same. After a 302 swap it still weighs the same as a turbo. I know it stays close to 50/50 but i cant give you the exact ratio off the top of my head.
spiceychikn 3 years ago
Your average all-iron 302 will fuck it up quite badly in terms of weight balance mate...
With an aluminum-head motor it's probably around 53/47 which is not really ideal.
RotaryJunkie 3 years ago
Too bad i dont give a shit.
spiceychikn 3 years ago 2
Meh, if you don't give a shit, then why'd you make the initial comment?
Also... I =/= 5.0 swap hater. Hell, it makes sense if you don't have cash and have an RX, as rotaries are expensive to make power with.
Ah well, the idiots will be idiots.
RotaryJunkie 3 years ago
Well it seems i got bored and started bickering about stupid things... my bad.
spiceychikn 3 years ago
weighs the same as a turbo, pahh rightttttttt
myersprostatus 3 years ago
KILL THE CAT!
spiceychikn 3 years ago
mean sounds like my 289 except mines in a s3 and an auto haha. sounds good though. was it hard to put in?
j2go 4 years ago
Not too tough, the granny's kit bolted right in, no problem. The hardest part was the wiring, radiator hoses, hood and most of all, the clutch setup.
winstonwolf88 4 years ago
Awesome Dave!
Wo0tie w0ot!!
nholmes 4 years ago