LS1 Rx-7 Engine Swap - Topic Listing

Steering rack went in, after many bloodied knuckles, swear words, spilled beers, and other bad things. For some brilliant reason, I kept trying to wad the steering shaft on the wrong side of the driver side motor mount. I finally figured it out though:Reviewing this post a few years later reminds me of how I should have kept thi

Went over to the LS1 to strip the wiring harness off to have it mailed out. There’s a couple of people (and companies) that will do wiring harness modifications to make it easier to wire the engine to another car’s harnesses.You never really think about just how many wires are spidered all over an engine until you have to sit there and

Arrived back in Rockville around 5pm. Called the towing company to take the Rx-7 over to my friend's house to start working on the swap. The towing company arrived, and we grabbed the Rx-7 and headed over to my friend's house in a little caravan.First step is to remove the hood. It's made out of aluminum, which means that it weighs about as

My Rx-7's stock interior was quite trashed when I bought the car. I don't think anyone took care of it, and I'm pretty sure whoever owned it had a regular pastime of rubbing razor blades over it. It's made even worse by the fact that my car is a '93, which had a less resiliant interior than the '94 and up models. In '93, they made inter

First, I primered the headlight brackets from earlier. They were a mix of about ten different funny looking colors, and I figured I could make them look a bit better with some black primer (mostly making the bracketry less visible).Afterwards, I shot paint over the other interior pieces. I used duplicolor’s sandable black primer&#

Bunch of parts finally showed up in the mail. Most importantly, for me at least, was a set of hood dampers. You may ask why this is.Picture this: You're standing inside the engine bay of a car, working on some wiring doodad or other thing, and you turn around to grab a set of pliers, knock the hood rod out of its mount, and

More parts. It’s taking forever for all of the parts to get here, but I really like taking pictures of them. Don’t ask.Driveshaft, radiator, exercise bike. Which of these doesn’t belong?Also, my new fuel rail covers arrived. They don’t do anything other than look good, and I’m not even sure I’

This all happened last saturday. I've been too busy to write anything until now. Full pictures are here: http://www.kitsunedev.com/stuff/engine_installation_2Finally finished pulling the interior apart. Getting that giant single dash piece out was a huge pain in the ass.http://kitsunedev.com/stuff/engine_installation_2/IMG_1429.JPGhttp://kitsunedev

Finally got the engine in!Full pictures here: http://kitsunedev.com/stuff/engine_installation_3/After detaching the transmission from the motor, it was relatively easy to get the motor in.http://kitsunedev.com/stuff/engine_installation_3/IMG_1481.JPGhttp://kitsunedev.com/stuff/engine_installation_3/IMG_1483.JPGhttp://kitsunedev.com/stuff/engine

Full pictures here: http://kitsunedev.com/stuff/shell_arrival/index.phpFirst, I took more out of the black shell. I got the hatch off, and some other interior parts off.http://kitsunedev.com/stuff/shell_arrival/IMG_1522.JPGhttp://kitsunedev.com/stuff/shell_arrival/IMG_1523.JPGhttp://kitsunedev.com/stuff/shell_arrival/IMG_1527.JPGThen, m