I was contemplating on things and I am beging to think it would be pretty nice to drop a skyline GTR in rx7 3rd gen. The GTR motor is powerfull and the rx7 body is light, great chasi and suspention. Sounds really good. Any opinions?

 

yah but you realize that the gtr motor is soooooo heavy they take 66kg's off of the block alone and still go racing



mike

 

And you thought a rotary was expensive? believe me you want nothing to do with this project. By the time you get the RB26DETT shoehorned into the engine bay, with all the modifications nessecary to make it fast, your looking at an easy $35-40,000, and that is not including the car. For that price you could have a 20b, nice side port, with all the goodies and still whip the hell out of anything on the road around you. I could not even conceive the parts nightmare you would have just trying to do a conversion like this. Leave the RB's to their Nissan bodies and build the rotary instead.

 

why do you think it will be so hard/expencive?

 

The money you spend puttin that engine in the rx-7 you could get a 20b fully modified with t-88 turbo and all the goodies for less.

the project probably wont be too hard if your an experienced mechanic but it will cost alot of money.

 

Because these things dont jus "drop" in. Everything has to be custom made. Think of all the little parts you would have to manufacture, as well as the big ones like the engine subframe, tranny mounts, blah blah blah. The list goes on forever.



It would not be a worthwile swap.

 

yes, just look at SP Engineering "SUPRA 7" a rx-7 with a 2JZ.... looks cool but a well modified RX-7 with a rotory can do the same....

 

yeah the gtr's engine is more responsive to water injection with no intercooler.......



it will be expensive cuz everything is goin to have to be custom made

 

its also expensive because GTR parts aren't cheap even in japan, now just try to get them here....Listen to thecamel, he actually has a GTR so we would know. Plus i think dimensionally speaking the GTR motor is taller than would realistically fit in an FD. How fast is your 3rd gen now that you feel you won't be satisfied with the options for engines that will actually fit?

 

why do you have so many rotary and rx7 ideas that are soooo far off in left field ,.... when you dont have a car?