im saving up to do one of those ls1 swaps for the future.. I heard those were very reliable, and it will be my daily driver if I ever save up 10-15 grand 8-x ... I decided not to go for the rotary rx-7 tt because I cannot afford having the car break down periodically.

 

yup its mr stock vs the world

 

Fareastkorean,


If there is any sport car in the market with an unreliable engine that will be without a doubt the 3rd gen RX7. The RX7 engine is consider not only fragile but rare to work on. I have two local friends in Tucson with modded RX7 TT 3rd gen, one of them is in this forum(Carsey) the other guy also on this forum (Trevor) which also has a 10.9@133 Stealth. Additionally I use to hang with another friend 9 years ago from Fort Walton Beach that had another RX7 TT which blew the engine up.

Basicly I am saying every buddy I had with a RX7 had a cathastropic failure. As per the performance, it is not bad, I love the car handling and the ergonomics but reliability wise is a nightmare.

One thing on their favor is that their stock tranny is well known to hold tons of power. Also get use to low torque numbers.

I personally don't recommend it but I can directly refer you to a few other friends that have RX7s .

Carlos

 

I had 2 before my evo. I love the cars, rev so nicely. I've only had each one for 20k miles tops w/o a problem which was about 2 years (live in ohio have to lock em up early.. main reasonn im driving an evo now). Really took care of mine and did my research on the cars about proper maintence, something you will defintly have to look into before owning one.

But when im out of college I will defintly be looking for another one. They are so rare and stylish. I didnt read this entire thread but goodluck in the future, you wont be dissappointed.






Miss you

 

Nice pics, have you ever had the R1 version?


Carlos

 

That is a very nice looking Rx7 man...

 

I know Chris personally and yes, he's a good engine builder. But if I were going to run a high hp, daily driven car, I'd want someone with ROADRACING experience to build the engine. Chris doesn't have that. Most of these guys will tell you there's no difference in building the two types of engines but it couldn't be further from the truth. Believe you me I've been there and back and have been exposed to some pretty creative thinking and ideas that maybe only a handful of people in the world know. Right now CLR, the company responsible for my engine, is building the three rotor engines for the ALMS LMP2 entry. I learned more in two hours with that guy than I did in five years of messing around with rotaries through other vendors and list "experts". You're on the RX7 forum (I'm RX7tt95 btw) and I'm sure you've seen pics of my rotors, the phase-ported jobbies that had everyone excited. Well, CLR had been using those for 12 YEARS before anyone in Joe public was allowed to see them. There's lots of other stuff I've seen which I've been sworn not to repeat or share. It's a matter of economics. There simply isn't enough business to warrant the type of aftermarket R&D necessary, especially in the United States. It's a much different picture in Japan and Australia where rotaries have done quite well in turbocharged form during competition. If you look a few posts up, there's a post mentioning a guy who ran with a turbo-back exhaust on a stock FD that blew up after four years. Well guess what? It's a speed density system! Of course it blew up! That's a huge no no on the RX7. Take a speed density Evo, stock, and put a turbo-back with no way to control boost. More than likely, the engine will blow. Does that mean the 4G is unreliable? Any car is a series of systems that must work in unison. But rotary engines can be made robust and reliable.

 

Well, let's get the FD rolling and see some vids or at least post times drag and track!!