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Old Feb 8, 2009 | 09:06 PM
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Hello all I'm new to the V8 world, I currently drive a Neon dumdumdumdum and I am looking to upgrade in a few years when I graduate from college. I'm studying Mechanical Engineering at Florida Tech in Melbourne Florida. Hopefully I'm looking into getting an FD RX7 and swapping in an LS series engine. I figured I'd start learning now that way when it comes time to doing the swap myself I'll have a lot of knowledge on it already.

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Old Feb 8, 2009 | 10:26 PM
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Sounds like you know what you want to do. But if you don't mind me asking, why not just buy an ls1 fbody? Any car with a swap done will never be the same as a car built from factory...
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Originally Posted by redlineracing
Sounds like you know what you want to do. But if you don't mind me asking, why not just buy an ls1 fbody? Any car with a swap done will never be the same as a car built from factory...
Well an FD RX7 weighs less than an F body, I like the looks of it, and for what I want to do, and road racing and auto cross it will fit the bill better.
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Old Feb 9, 2009 | 08:01 PM
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Ok, I understand. Well good luck. Cant wait to see it.
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welcome, I considered an rx swap but ended up getting a camaro. Those things are nice with an ls1.
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Old Feb 9, 2009 | 10:09 PM
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Ok, I understand. Well good luck. Cant wait to see it.
Thanks!

Originally Posted by skippytheloon
welcome, I considered an rx swap but ended up getting a camaro. Those things are nice with an ls1.
They are very nice, I'm doing a lot of research on them and they can be tame or wild depending on how much money you have to spend lol.
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