RX-3

The use of off the shelf brackets from the off-road industry is frustration time avoided. Yes, making a bracket is pretty easy to fabricate, but ordering one that's laser cut from places like Ballistic is money well spent. Even having custom bracket built turned out to be cheap too.

-Jon

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The use of off the shelf brackets from the off-road industry is frustration time avoided. Yes, making a bracket is pretty easy to fabricate, but ordering one that's laser cut from places like Ballistic is money well spent. Even having custom bracket built turned out to be cheap too.

-Jon

He's in close contact with somebody who made 30-50 just for these axles..and shock mounts too..who is lending him a shock for checking purposes..

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Actually my first thought was "I wonder how close in size the rear beam mounts on Golfs are to Volvo trailing arm pivots?"

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Self-righteous douche canoe

thinking of putting a golf rear beam in there and going no-wheel-drive?

Would make a lot of things a lot simpler.

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Self-righteous douche canoe

Think of how much I'd save on tires with no-wheel-drive!

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Self-righteous douche canoe

Gonna enter it in a soap box race?

So, look at what just wandered into the garage today:

Turbo-II transmission, with detachable bellhousing. Random find on CL from a guy who's in the
region. He didn't have this listed, but had a bunch of other stuff so I asked if he had one and got
lucky with it. Seemed like a good guy, and he has a bunch of stuff. I'll probably hit him up later for
the flywheel and starter, but he didn't have that dug out and I didn't have any extra cash on me
anyway. I'll probably just resell the main case and guts: anyone want 'em?


Pre-fabbed shock towers, courtesy of TT. I was gabbing with him and he was like, "oh hey, I
have some. Here."

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Self-righteous douche canoe

Join rx7club or rotarycarclub and put it in your region's for sale section and it will be gone quickly. They tend to break over 600-700hp and people are pushing 900-1000hp nowadays on E85 and water injection, with the big and CHEAP turbos available now.

I couple days ago I picked up a Ford T5 in pieces. The main case chunk was bolted to a Kennedy adapter which was also bolted to an RX-3 bellhousing. Basically a unicorn in these parts.

Kennedy's website is down, but it appears that to use this then I will either need a (nonexistent) 3.35 First input shaft with Chevy pilot, or cut down the Ford pilot to Chevy size. General consensus is that the synchros are junk if you plan on shifting at over 6500, and 6500 is about where my revs drop to AFTER a shift, so before it even goes in the car I plan on having two of the gears face-plated by Liberty. Apparently it's $80 per gear and $80 per slider face, so $320 to get 2 and 3 done. Even with 4.78s, 3rd will be good for over a hundred so synchronizers will be just fine for 4th.

It will be more work to put in compared to throwing in a Turbo II transmission but you can get parts to rebuild the T5 while Mazda transmissions are increasingly turning up NLA. And my word, this trans looks simple to deal with, like I could rebuild it with a drift, a hammer, and thirty minutes, no special tools required. Take off the lid, remove the input shaft, remove the tailhousing, drive the countershaft out, lift out the mainshaft... The trans guy I deal with said "it's mediocre but common". I can deal with mediocre, that's a step up.

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/14/2014 06:45PM by Pete.

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And my word, this trans looks simple to deal with, like I could rebuild it with a drift, a hammer, and thirty minutes, no special tools required. Take off the lid, remove the input shaft, remove the tailhousing, drive the countershaft out, lift out the mainshaft... The trans guy I deal with said "it's mediocre but common". I can deal with mediocre, that's a step up.

Actually, it's put in neutral, remove shifter, punch out roll pin, unbolt tail shaft housing, pop top cover off, pop input shaft housing off, then go from there.

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
KB1PJY

It took me two hours to get a Mazda smoothcase down to the point where I could get at the FUBAR'd 1-2 slider. Lots of F.U. circlips and roll pins that are laid out such that you can only drive them in one direction, and you can't drive them out from that direction, and there's one point where you have to press two shafts out at once. Bah.

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

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Actually, it's put in neutral, remove shifter, punch out roll pin, unbolt tail shaft housing, pop top cover off, pop input shaft housing off, then go from there.

You make it sound much harder than it seems when you're doing it.

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Grant Hughes

my friend could use the transmission part for his Turbo II 10th AE model


also whats is the price of those prefab towers???

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also whats is the price of those prefab towers???

Tim made them years ago and probably had that pair laying around. I have a pair still laying around that I might be coaxed out of. I think I paid just under $200 for the pair as I recall.

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Grant Hughes

indeed, well it would make finishing the rx7 way way easier and quicker since i have two huge holes in the rear

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