What would be the easiest Engine to Swap?
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Any swap into this car is pretty complicated, so suppose the whole venture costs you $10k in parts, custom work and troubleshooting, which is on the cheap side, you'll break even in about 110,000km (at my local gas price.. if you're in the US, it's probably closer to 200,000km. Do you plan to drive that much?
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Pistons Please
The RX8 is a rather complicated platform to work on for a "I could do this to be more fuel efficient"
The reality is, while it may be more fuel efficient, it will drop 70% of its functions, and be the only way to make an RX8 less reliable than it was to start with.
Too many RX8 swaps are hack jobs, with tons of **** over looked, and in the end the car is half as refined as it was to start with, which is sad for it having a wildly mediocre powertrain from the get go.
(Not to say my swap is anything close to perfect, but I have avoided "good enough" things, like reusing the POS factory fuel system)
The reality is, while it may be more fuel efficient, it will drop 70% of its functions, and be the only way to make an RX8 less reliable than it was to start with.
Too many RX8 swaps are hack jobs, with tons of **** over looked, and in the end the car is half as refined as it was to start with, which is sad for it having a wildly mediocre powertrain from the get go.
(Not to say my swap is anything close to perfect, but I have avoided "good enough" things, like reusing the POS factory fuel system)
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More people have done V8 swaps than Yaris swaps, so there is some information available to help you, but with an econonbox engine, you're kinda on your own.
But again, it depends on what compromises you can accept.. A/C, steering, firewall cutting, various wiring hacks...
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2005 Rx8
I have a 2005 and i want to take the rotary out of it and put something faster in but i dont want to have to do alot of modifications, What would be the best engine to turn it into a monster?
#38
Smoking turbo yay
Even REW swaps need a lot of effort, any piston swaps are even more effort.
Cutting corners now will cost you more down the road.
My advice: sell it, buy an old Mustang/Camaro/Corvette and start there.
Also some of the older posts are hilarious. If you want Yaris economy, buy a Yaris, derp. Doing an engine swap to save money on gas is like ripping money apart and gluing it back together. Makes zero sense financially.
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