SR powered FC

[R.P.M]

Figured I’ll post up some pics of my buddies FC I’ve been working on the last while. Finally starting to get somewhere with it, yay!

It started out as an 87 Turbo chassis, he’s done the black interior swap, S5 front bumper, he rocked the 13B for a while but with his luck he kept blowing engines lol. So I suggested an SR, why not.

Couple years ago he had the shell stripped down and painted

Just this past year I started the swap working on it in my spare time, fabbed up some motor mounts. The white block is a chunk of Delrin we used for solid motor mounts for the 13B.

Had a custom SR > FC driveshaft built

Now the probelm with an SR in an FC is that the oil pickup is at the front and so is the steering rack on the FC…so I had to build an oil pickup tube and oil pan.

I had a stock SR oil pan machined down to basically a flange

Then I fitted some scrap tubing together to build a rear sump oil pickup tube

There she is, fitted on the engine in the car with the oil pan flange in place. see how close the pickup tube is to the steering rack

Alright, on to building the pan to fit everything now…

Functional OEM dipstick too!

Test fit one more time…

Soooooo close to the rack

And alomst done!

Engine landed in place, little FMIC hidden just infront of the FC rad

Still have lots of little custom shit to do, rad hoses, heatercore hoses, relocate battery, wire the alternator, starter and tap in the SR ECU in the FC dash harness.
Other than that it should be a decent reliable car…thats not a rot bag. haha

[cougarspeed]

I like it!

[travisn]

good work on the oil pan!

[TrueBlue]

Dude, more, more images - I love FC’s :tup:

[Onyx_Z32]

Nice work so far :tup:

[sharpe_corners]

Sweet, whats the verdict on rx7club?
Haters?
Lovers?
Mixed bag?

[jeffthespasm]

This is pretty awesome. Love me some FC.

[R.P.M]

Thanks guys, didn’t post on rx7club cause EVERYONE will hate. They’ll tell me I’ve taken the soul out of the car…fuckin people.

[Re_Ameyami]

JOEEEEEEEE very cool…i wants to drive when done <3

ivan

[livin4hockey]

@R.P.M.

Thanks guys, didn’t post on rx7club cause EVERYONE will hate. They’ll tell me I’ve taken the soul out of the car…fuckin people.

That’s because you did steal it’s soul! I kid, I’m not that crazy about it. While it’s sad to see people ditch the rotary sometimes, at least you aren’t doing your typical every day V8 swap.

[travisn]

@livin4hockey

That’s because you did steal it’s soul! I kid, I’m not that crazy about it. While it’s sad to see people ditch the rotary sometimes, at least you aren’t doing your typical every day V8 swap.

sr20 is the new typical swap.

[white240]

@livin4hockey

That’s because you did steal it’s soul! I kid, I’m not that crazy about it. While it’s sad to see people ditch the rotary sometimes, at least you aren’t doing your typical every day V8 swap.

Joe has restored more rx7 “souls” than anyone ever should…hahah. He’s paid his dues.

I really hope bagley paints his car after it has a cool ass motor in it.

[R.P.M]

haha probably not, he loves the color. I have no idea why, it sure does stand out.

BTW this car will be for sale once its finished. My buddy is just done with it, he wants it gone, which is another reason we swapped the SR into it.

Now all you 240 guys might buy it since it has a floor and frame rails haha.

[Tacoboy]

I like ur work Josep.

[R.P.M]

Thanks Davey.

[MPD47]

Nicely done, elegant oil pan solution. Looks great! Burnouts?

[R.P.M]

Burnouts soon.

[yamaha]

Are you on norotors.com?

[R.P.M]

Hmmm nope, never heard of it before. I’ll check it out though.

[Re_Ameyami]

lol norotors hahahahah thats exactly where joe should be wtf is happening with the fd btw?