until you have a driving record like mine

 

ah,,

i was wondering.. i thought putting a new motor in a old car was fine...

beers

 

the smog ****'s don't care about how clean an engine burns...they care about paperwork. period.

classic battle of the letter of the law vs. the word.

the engine (note ENGINE; not entire car)from my fd burns a lot cleaner than the stock engine ever did, but it's illegal because i have a haltech.

 

FLA > cali

sorry, does not seem fair..

beers

 

if they bypassed the visual, i swear i'd run a cat on the fd. it'd damn near blow zeros.

 

can you masquerade the engine to look like the renesis? like slap some fake accessories on top of it :-) just so you can pass the visual test. He he
I am sure whoever does the testing, don't know much about neither of the engines to be able to tell them apart once it has been prepped to look alike. (Not quite sure it is possible, but just a thought)

 

wait.... isn't it a Renesis that's going into the FC?

 

masquerqde my renesis to look like a renesis? that shouldn't be too hard

the main thing is the s4's had egr, renesis doesn't. insta-failure from the functionality test.

 

You're specifically worried about CA emissions rules? I don't think it would be an issue in NH. Some counties have a sniff test, but not mine. The main reason I want to switch to a Renesis is that I assumed it would be cleaner than my N/A six port 13B.

My understanding is that the Renesis will bolt up to my FC transmission, which would be good because it has a lower overdrive, ergo better mileage on the highway. Do you know if the six port intake is interchangible?

 

the intake won't bolt up. the induction system is all different.

and you'd probably wanna use a t2 tranny, unless you use an aftermarket flywheel and heavy-duty clutch.... actually, i'm not sure if many of the aftermarket clutches for the n/a rx7's will even hold the renesis power...not turbo anyway.

so renny motor, t2 tranny, renny intake stuff and you should be good to go.

for simplicity sake, i'll just get mine going with a cable throttle body so i can say i have a renny-fc, then i'll have plenty of time in the future to try to get the stock computer working and make it legally-legal.

 

How long a transmission or clutch lasts is completely at the discretion of the driver. I had a turbo II transmission on my old nonturbo RX-7 and I killed 2 different aftermarket clutches and the 5th gear syncro. I drove the hell out of it too.

 

I think I'll go with the NA transmission. I'm not going to turbo. When the transmission blows, I'll get a TII. Please keep us posted on the fly by wire when you get to it.

 

When you do switch to the TII transmission, you need the rear end, driveshaft and half shafts too as well as the starter, a new flywheel, clutch, and clutch master and slave cylinder. There's a lot to it. You can delete half of those needs if you just get a new driveshaft made.

 

the big concern i have is: how is the t2 tranny going to like being spun to 9k+ daily?

i'm glad i can get those trannies for $150-250 any day of the week

 

It shouldn't matter. We use to take my friend's '91 n/a up to fuel cutoff at that point with no issues.

 

that gives me hope

 

Dave, I wish I could have seen this project completed considering you were so knowledgable and you also happened to be close to where I live. May the heavens above give you the opportunity to complete this and many other Rotory projects.

R.I.P.

 

Ditto ^
Rest in peace Dave

 

RIP Dave.

 

RIP rotary brother

 

Rip Dave =(