thinking v8 swap, have a few ?s

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Yes, the T5 will go through the stock shifter hole if you can get a straight-up bell housing for the transmission (most bell housings are canted).

Originally Posted by Rotary_Rocket_87

And i am sorry but if i spend $1000 getting this to work it will be a much better investment than rebuilding as i will have more hp and torque for the same money spent.

There is no need to be sorry, it is your car, you should make it run like you want it to. I can assure you that I could get more power out of a 350 Chevy than I am getting out of my 4-port rotary. The problem is that I couldn't do it as inexpensively (unless I had a friend/brother who is giving it away, a 270 Hp 350 is going to cost more than $750 installed in an RX7).

Originally Posted by Rotary_Rocket_87

just makes sense to me. and my brother can build one hell of a v8. he built a 300 hp 283 for a friends mudtruck and it is insane

If the engine is free, you should have no trouble mounting it in the RX7 for $1000.00. If you are good at fab work, you should have no trouble building your own engine mounts that allow the engine to sit lower and further back. I have a buddy with a 302 Ford in his RX7 that has the stock 50-50 weight distribution and weight (2670 lbs), this is easier with small bock Fords as they have no distributor on the back.

You could get 400 Hp out of a 283 - if you were willing to pay for it. I know several 302 guys that are well over 400 Hp (with only another 1/8" of bore). Of course, they spent more on cylinder heads than I did for my entire rotary engine.

$1000.00 into a 350 will get you 300 Hp pretty easily. If you can find an earlier one (pre-smog) they will make that bone-stock. It is all in what you understand and find the easiest to work on. I have done several v8 swaps into RX7s (because I understood the v8), and then I decided to start working with the rotary engines and found them to be just as much fun, only in a different way.

Rotary engines are simplicity itself, seriously - you should save that engine and rebuild it to put in a dune buggy or something.

If you really don't want it, PM me, I wouldn't mind buying it (Picking it up might prove difficult).