<h2>Introducing Our New Project Car! V8 Rx-7 (another one)</h2>
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:26:28 PM
Well after renting a trailor and making a very boring 4 hour drive I now have a new project. What is it?
1984 Mazda Rx-7 with chevy 350 swap and a 5spd trans.
other mods include headers,fuel cell and other parts,
If you have been reading the blog you may know that I already have a 1st gen Rx-7 that is getting a Ford 5.0 swap so why did I buy this one? It was $900 bucks!
Plans may be to combine the two cars and use the best parts of the bunch, but now that I have something that is fairly ready to go were going racing! Car still needs a few things re-done and a few other things fixed/sorted, but shouldnt be a ton of work. We could easily have less than $1000 in the car total; just goes to show ya how fast you can really go for under $1000 bucks!
So how does it drive? Well I will still have to wait and see as it currently is having a few issues with the clutch slave over-heating, but we did take it for a quick run down a gravel road and its about as fast as you think a little car with a motor this big would be. Stay tuned for an upcoming video series and be on the look out for us at some local southeast events. I plan to take this to drag, drift, and autocross events.
Here are a few quick pics i snapped on the drive home last night with the iphone I'll have a start up video up soon so you can hear the same un-corked straight pipes my neighbors will be hearing for a few weeks. Check back for updates!
