Looking at an FD3S with a 20b single turbo\'d engine on a Jap website that looks amazing!! Are there many like this in the UK and if so are they for sale??
Dave.
i dont think there are many about uk mate. i know of one turbo`d. the green beasty. one red NA and another with a rotex charger. i looked into converting a rex to turbo`d 20b and with donor car its still another 15k on top.
my cousin has one. its a money pit but a great engine. A guy called Mir on here has one , who will no doubt pop up shortly.
Unless its very well sorted already, you will be looking at a lot of money to get he best out of it, there is no cheap way to build a proper one. You will save a lot if you can do your own fab and fitting work.
It was up at around 1.9 million yen before shipping and all the usual add on\'s, really do fancy one though, they must be fantastic to drive :3gears-lh.
Dave.
they are but if its running any sort of decent power, you will soon toast a stock gearbox, we had a brand new from mazda and its not done a couple of thousand miles but its whining already.
Whats the spec? turbo, injectors, ecu etc, it will give an idea if its putting out decent power
It\'s already sold but it really took my fancy, i\'ll get a link up tomorrow even though it\'s gone :(. It got me thinking of what car i\'d like next :Thumbs-up
Dave.
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That copy & paste didn\'t go too well!! Tired now so will try again in the morning!
Dave.
Hi, it\'s me who own one, but I regret it thou.lolllll :) if u wanna do a proper job, it will cost u easily over 20k. And I mean it.
But the drive of it is gorgeous... Loved it absolutely... Proper previllege to own except the cost of running it lolllll
If u have arround 50k. I would say u will never regret it, because it never ends .....but as I said, it\'s absolutely fun to own one.
I\'ve been waiting for your reply :D. I can\'t, couldn\'t, wouldn\'t justify having £50k in an RX7 as i\'d prefer to spend £40k on a GTR or £30k on a Porsche Turbo as i loved my last one!
Do you have any pics i can lust over? Did you build her fully or buy her? If they are that problematic i may just follow my mate Andyg and go for a V8 when the mood takes me :Thumbs-up I need to get home from hospital as i\'m going to be skint soon gleaning ideas on the net!!
Dave.
drop me a txt dave when your home and fighting fit. i`ll pop down say hello. im in the area quite a bit at the mo ;-)
Doing well with the new lady then Marky boy ;o) Hope i\'m getting home this week as i\'ve got loads to organise with the cars hopefully before the Xmas break. I\'ll give you a text and get some fresh cups, milk & coffee in :Thumbs-up
Dave.
Dav don\'t get me wrong, they are not problemetic, the problem is the tunning side. I must admit I spent some unnecessary money on it as well. I built the car from ground up. I didnt buy her like that.if u really wanna go for 20b, I would say let\'s do this as a joint project. I will help u free of charge and believe me u wud spend peanuts for having one. I know now how to save cost vn building it. I was doing caculation the other day and realized that I cud have saved a lot by doing certain things in certain way. Now my project is 4 rotor rx. See where I go with it. In nutshell they r not problematic. They really good except the fuel cost loll. And if u wanna build one i can help u build one very cheap.
Regards
Syed
Quote from: Mir;732462Dav don\'t get me wrong, they are not problemetic, the problem is the tunning side. I must admit I spent some unnecessary money on it as well. I built the car from ground up. I didnt buy her like that.if u really wanna go for 20b, I would say let\'s do this as a joint project. I will help u free of charge and believe me u wud spend peanuts for having one. I know now how to save cost vn building it. I was doing caculation the other day and realized that I cud have saved a lot by doing certain things in certain way. Now my project is 4 rotor rx. See where I go with it. In nutshell they r not problematic. They really good except the fuel cost loll. And if u wanna build one i can help u build one very cheap.
Regards
Syed
Hi Syed,
Well that\'s very much appreciated and i may take you up on that offer! When will you be starting the 4 rotar, now that\'s something i\'d love to see!
I understand what you mean about the tuning side and it\'s always good to be forewarned by someone who has actually gone through a project. The fuel costs are not so much of a worry as it\'d only be an occasional use car back and fore to my business that\'s 2 miles away :3gears-lh
Dave.
Mir, I thought your car was the one that Super7 built? In which case, it\'s definitely excellent and Jason put loads more work into it than he could ever charge for, the bill would have been ludicrous just on labour alone. At least it was done properly with the firewall altered and custom subframes and everything. I was there when he got the custom sump from the fabricator, even just that was a work of art with god knoes how many hours work in it
Dave not to worry. Keep my contact number with u it\'s 07862292616. When u ready, just give me call and I will arrange a meeting with you abt 20b. Trust me if u do the way u i want u to do it, it will b proper/excellent and cheap. In the mean time I wud say buy an engine I wud say from Tim rx motors who have 2 in stock, will rebuild it, and then off u go. I m changing my fuel system and Ecu so u can buy those cheaper of me as I m going Motec. All we need to worry about it is the sub frame, diff and the shaft. Don\'t worry I know how to sort that out as well.
Nik, u r right it\'s the same car, Jasons fabrication was mind blowing, but as u Dave is not looking to spend too much money on the car that\'s y, I think Jason will not b happy to take silly money like 2 to 3k to intall the 20b in an Fd.
Whereas, over a period of time I have learnt that the so many things can b done at a different cost "reliably". The bill was no doubt big, but the Jasons work was excellent as well.
Dav, hope u get well soon. And once u out and ready give me a call. Will catch up to make intial plan abt the conversion. I have most of things in stock for u any way like microtec lt12s ecu, single turbo wire, the ecu dash, the Front Mount intercooler and brackets etc etc etc.
Hope to c u soon
regards
Syed
I know what you mean about learning how to work things slightly differently at a saving and it\'s never such a bad thing! I don\'t want to blow many thousands so i\'ll definately be in touch when back on my feet :cheers.
Dave.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Mazda-RX-7-R1-Mazda-rx7-fd3s-skyline-rb25dett-engine-/110629154570?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item19c202ef0a
heres that other option you spoke of mate?!?!
What a waste of a rx7 :(
Ergh! I feel dirty even looking at it!
Makes you realise why Skylines are so fduking mahoosive seeing that gurt big lump wedged in a poor li\'l ol FD like that :eek:. Still, nice of the vendor to include foxy MILF shots in his ad lol :Giggle
Thanks for that Nik, I\'d missed them.
i thought that link would rattle some feathers lol
That\'s a great find and personally i like it!! Then again i did buy a UK Honda NSX in standard form then modify it because i could :2Confused Now that\'s throwing a cat amongst the pigeons :Laugh:Laugh:Laugh
Wonder if i could squeeze an RB26 with a nice pair of top mounts into mine??
Dave.
hey i`d like the rx7 if it had a moped engine under the hood.