ive got an acquaintance who says he put a rx-7 turbo engine in a civic hatch....is this possible?

 

yes

 

anythings possible. you could throw a catapillar 3208 marine deisel in a hatch if you had the time. and that weights more than the whole car itself.

 

it was FWD, wouldnt he have wanted to make it RWD?

 

he is prolly talking out his ***

 

I really doubt he could do it FWD since find a tranny would be a major problem. If he said he was going to back half it and make it rwd then maybe I would believe him. Who knows, anything is possible with money!! Besides why would anyone want to put a shitty rotary into a honda when you could easily put a b-series in.

 

thats what we're thinking...he was being shady and wouldnt pop his hood to let us see what he had....from the sound of the car, it sounded like a B16w/a charger, I guess the funny thing was that he claimed he's never lost and the car he ran was an allmotor civic, which i can smote, so i guess he's gonna lose when i run him next week

 

Given enough time/money/fabrication, it's possible. The rotary motor's crankshaft rotates the opposite direction to the Honda FWD motors, so it's by no means a simple swap. More likely a RWD conversion would be simpler, as no rotary-equipped vehicles were FWD that I'm aware of.

My initial reaction would be to call BS on this...the sound of a modded rotary is VERY distinctive and hard to mistake for anything else. Listen to a few rotary sound clips and you'll see what I mean. But then, I'm a rotorhead myself and could just be biased

 

rotaries have a very distinct sound, youd be able to tell the difference just by listening when it revs.

 

He's full of ****.

On a semi-related note, however, it is relatively simple to drop a Chevy LS1 into a 2nd or 3rd gen RX-7.

Go figure eh?

 

yeah when i had my '85 rx7 12a rotary (gsl) i was this- close to putting a 350 in it and ripping some **** up! the whole swap is less than $4500 less if you could do it all. and lets think about this, the car weighs 2400lbs with a 350 in, that thing would rip the pavement up for sure!! and you can get a 7 for less than 1k good condition or $600 like mine.

 

my boy had a rx7 turbo in a civic too hes from NJ

 

my buddy just dropped in a built up sr20 in a 95 rx-7. Just started it yesterday

 

damn man my dawg put a viper v10 in his ford festiva! that **** is MAD tite y0

*sigh*

 

why drop the 13btt(not sure if thats the right engine code) for a sr20? i mean they're good motors but the rotarys are awesome if you just change the coolant ring and the apex seals.