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Old 05-02-2006, 11:11 AM
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Post renesis motor in fc3s?

anyone out there that have pictures or websites that show renesis installs in the fc3s or somewhere along those lines? im also posting this in the rx7club forum.....

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Don't know of any. You'd have to convert the Renesis drive-by-wire to a throttle cable, I'd assume, or vice versa.
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If you're going to do a swap just do an LS1...
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Originally Posted by Ike
If you're going to do a swap just do an LS1...
Ike,
For someone I enjoy and respect I'm a little disappointed with you on this one. Not everyone is an LS1 candidate. How about you shoe-horn one of those bad boys into your car?
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That's blasphemy, Paul. No self respecting Mitsu would ever have an American engine of any sort in it.

On a side note, do you know how the throttle body issue would be solved for a swap into a FC?
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Originally Posted by Mazmart
Ike,
For someone I enjoy and respect I'm a little disappointed with you on this one. Not everyone is an LS1 candidate. How about you shoe-horn one of those bad boys into your car?
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Seems like it would be a cheaper swap (just a guess) and obviously much better horsepower wise without gaining a ton of weight. I don't know how difficult the swap would be compared to the Renesis, but with the LS1 at least people have done it before and he'd have some sort of guide to follow.
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well i happen to prefer rotary over piston in some cases but in this case if i was to do a motor swap for the FC itd be of course a rotary but hey thats me.

thanks for the responses
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well, you'd have to go with something like a motec anyway to control the engine, so i wouldn't think swapping out the drive-by-wire system with a cable would be too much harder then a little fabrication and a trip to the junkyard

actually, i'd bet speed source is already has a throttle cable for their race cars for sale.
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this would be interesting to see.
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Originally Posted by Ike
If you're going to do a swap just do an LS1...
There are a couple people on another site i belong to that have LS1 and LS2 7s. There is also a guy that has an LS1 and an LS2 Miata. IMO, put an LS2 or LS7 in there.

or a 3 rotor engine
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yeah for the money a renesis swap would cost u could almost do a 3 rotor swap
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welcome to the forum, don't forget to check the "date" of the thread
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wow holy thread resurrection batman! lol sorry about that i must have done a search and forgot i did then posted lol... ive been a member on the rx7club for years i know how things work, just a drunkin mistake on my part sry
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i don't know about fc3s with renesis but i know there is sa22c with a renesis i seen it with my own eye in japan here is some pics you can look at
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