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Old May 4, 2008 | 10:14 PM
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Hi dudes,

Guess Its my turn to finally start this progress thread. The car is a 94 white FD PEP model. 84k chassis miles. use to have 471whp with a single turbo street port set up. That lasted 7k miles . That brings me to the LSX world. After taking a ride in LS1240z's FD I was pretty much hooked. It took me about a year of thinking before I decided to go this route.

The engine I'm dropping in is an 07 LS2 out of a Vette. It has 3 miles on the motor and is basically brand new. Got it from a guy that bought 2 of them from a Hong Kong race team that purchased 4 vettes and pulled the motors out of them. The cars were bought locally here in the bay area and shipped out to HK. I'll be using Hinson's equipment for this project.

So far my progress has been good. I'll let the pics do most of the talking.
When the rotary was in her.

Pulling parts begin.

Motor coming out.

Paper weight anyone?

My good friend Kevin. Can't do this without this guy.

Progress


This arrived today while we were pulling the motor.

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Donor car

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Old May 4, 2008 | 10:21 PM
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what are they going to do to the 4 vette chassis? just wondering why they bought brand new ones and took the motor out.

good luck with the swap. rx7 fd are nice looking cars.
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Old May 4, 2008 | 10:25 PM
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Well, I am officially jealous!

And yes, inquiring minds want to know. Any idea what they are going to do with the donor cars in HK?
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Old May 4, 2008 | 10:26 PM
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I don't really know bro. The engine seller mentioned that the purchaser had sponsors and I'm assuming they will be dropping in already built units.
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Old May 5, 2008 | 10:15 PM
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Looks great man and that progress pic looks very familiar to what i was looking at this weekend in my car.
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Old May 6, 2008 | 05:04 PM
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Very sweet! Keep posting your progress.
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Old May 6, 2008 | 05:20 PM
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Hopefully this weekend I can work on here a bit more. But I think it's mothers day. Gotta take care of momma ya know Thanks for the kind words fellas.
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Old May 6, 2008 | 05:47 PM
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those cars are beautiful. should be a killer combo.
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you keeping the A/C? Let me know if you're looking to unload that compressor....
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Originally Posted by jw33
you keeping the A/C? Let me know if you're looking to unload that compressor....
Yah I think im going to hang onto it. My girl uses AC like she needs it to stay alive.
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Great progress so far! That motor will rip and make 400rwhp+ on mellow 91 octane all day long reliably
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*drool* looks sick already!

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Old May 9, 2008 | 05:14 PM
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That thing is going to be nice !!! Good luck man!!
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Old May 10, 2008 | 02:34 AM
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Thanks for the kind words everyone. I really appreciate the feedback.
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Old May 13, 2008 | 11:30 AM
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nice man looks like you have a clean FD there to start with.
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Old May 13, 2008 | 01:06 PM
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Lookin good so far. The motor is pure art. But dang... pulling it in a driveway/on the sidewalk?? kind of a drag.
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Old May 13, 2008 | 03:23 PM
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yah got to do it ghetto at my house. The garage doesn't have a high celing clearance for the picker plus its a 1 car garage... Just gotta make do
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Old May 13, 2008 | 04:59 PM
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you need to put a cam in that sob while its right there in front of you.


Anyways good luck on the swap it looks like fun
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