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http://zilvia.net/f/off-topic-chat/2...ics-heavy.html You can try contacting this guy too. 2JZ swap RX-8 http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=135419
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omg... we can ****ing sit here forever and think of a million cars that can beat this car in whatever hypothetical situation you want. if a mzr rx8 is what you wanna do... don't let anyone tell you different.
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I love unique swaps,but not on an rx7/8. Its a rotary,not the most reliable car on the road but thats what makes them what they are. They can make crazy power and make your ears cry,if you want a track car just shove a 20b and a nice size turbo. If you want a dd,look somewhere else because only rotary heads would dd an rx7/8.
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Just buy an F chassis and call it a day. Or swap an RX-8. No one really cares about RX-8s anyway. But leave the sacred RX-7s alone.
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I think its a pretty solid idea of a swap. Hell, you may even become the ground breaker. I think most Rotary guys hate on LS swaps because it's a domestic engine going into an import, I feel the same way!! A Mazda engine going into a Mazda is less offensive IMO and your particular idea is interesting!
Wiring would be a bitch, but not impossible..
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Why is everyone talking about ls swaps and the hate/love? Hes talking about swapping a speed engine...
Chris if you want it,go for it.
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You're an owner and don't know?
This thread was enough to steer me away from the MS3, weak internals, blowing motors under partial throttle with minimal bolt ons and even in stock trim, throwing rods for the lulz..etc etc.. http://www.mazdaspeedforums.org/foru...e-thread-6113/ Yeah, I understand forums are places where people bitch about their problems...but that particular thread was more than the random issue that Mazda didn't want to do anything about. I dunno, I wanted a daily driver that can go 40k miles without needing new motors (if your car applies, great, if you don't, I don't care..because it applies enough)...For reference I had a spec-v....when a cars reliability issues scare Spec-V owners away, you know there's a prollem' That's at least in the first gen MS3's from what I've read and heard, oh, and seen in friends MS3's....No, not all of them will blow up or be troublesome, but compared to other mass produced motors in other mass produced cars...the 2.3DISI is sketchsauce.
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it was only sketch because noob owners didn't have any idea that they were blowing motors because of fuel pump internals. It took fools like 3 years to figure it out and now a lot less people are blowing motors. Its just like the spec v man gotta know what to do to make it not go boom
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see, that's not the point...you should be able to buy a car and not have to worry about things like that...If they did their due diligence, they should have figured that out before the car went on sale....just like Nissan with the Spec-V
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but, I wouldn't blame Nissan for not driving a spec for tens of thousands of miles to hammer out the issues...it's a pretty terrible car.
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R&D is great but they can't sniff out every problem, which is why cars have recalls. Especially new platforms and engines, which is what the Spec-V was. It was the second year for the B15 platform and the first year for the QR25. It was bound to run into problems. Even the 2011 Jukes had recalls on leaky fuel rails/injectors already. Some recalls are just more catastrophic then others sadly. |
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