The one thing I hate about the damage it has, well you can see it in those last two pictures.
Other than that I think its fine.
It has some rust spots, but there savable.
I'm going to do the body work and paint later down the road.
As of now its just get this thing running mechanically.
I removed 30 pounds (just guessing) of "sound deading" from the interior.
When I removed the dash, the wiring looked like a back-yard mech. put it together. I guess thats how it came from the factory.
I cut the dash around the steering column to get it off. It looks like they installed the dash before the steering column.
The engine is very simple. Carb, strait-6, push-rod. US market has HP ratings around 100. Tranny was a 4spd. Ill have to look up the diff gearing.
No power everything.
And it comes with a full-size spare.
Its interesting how simple these cars were built.
My plans:
I'm going to use the Triumph's rear diff, drive-shaft (going to be customized), suspension, steering, brakes, and fuel-tank.
The things I'm going to use from my '87 RX7 are: Engine, tranny, wire harness, radiator, oil-cooler, coils, battery, etc.
Everything else will be custom.
In a short overall summary I'm going to get it: running, roadworthy, upgrades, upgrades, etc.
The rotary engine is newly rebuilt (atkins) with RA apex seals and some interesting porting, and it still needs breaking in. Story on that in the link in my sig.
TR6's replacement engine.
Rough fit in the TR6. (will go back an down)
Thats where I am now.
I hope to get this running by or before the end of the year.
All that I've done till now has only taken about two weeks in the past 3 weeks.
I don't have a job now, lol, so that helps with build time. But I'm interrupted by weather, other things, etc.
Next is a lot of custom mounting to do.
I decided to post this project up now for some inspiration to finish it. lol.
IcandoitIcandoitIcandoit. lol.