From the owner:
For sale: One 1988 Mazda RX7 project car (home hobby kit)!
The shell is a GTU (all the turbo bits without the turbo), which was stripped for drifting two owners ago. The same person swapped in a complete S4 turbo driveline (engine, trans, driveshaft, clutch-type diff, axles).
I bought it from a friend, non-running — still stripped, with plans to return it to road service. That was over a year ago.
Pros / What You Get:
Chassis is straight, except for two dents pictured.
Motor turns over fine. Trans moves through gears.
720cc injectors.
S4 turbo ecu with Rtek 1.7 chip.
New Walbro 255 fuel pump.
A nearly complete interior trim package (including brand new carpetting!) that I collected via ebay.
Lots of other new parts I planned to install such as brakes and intake bits.
A Sparco racing bucket with a bracket that mostly fits.
K-Sport adjustable coilovers.
A one-year-old unused (tended and cared-for) Duracell battery.
A factory aluminum turbo hood.
4x BBS OEM 15″ rims from the convertible.
All of the exterior trim bits you don’t see on the shell such as the wing and moldings.
Cons / What You Get:
Crushed pinch welds. (Blech… drifters.)
Questionable wiring.
Untested accessories.
Unknown miles on the powertrain.
The BBS wheels are super-rashed. The tires on those rims don’t hold air.
The hood is missing the ultra-hard-to-find plastic trim.
The paint is ruined.
The sunroof is completely dismantled, as it was rusted open (not the way you want it rusted). I can teach you how to put it back together, but the cable still needs to visit a ferrous-metal-reclamation spa before it will seal.
There is no exhaust.
The emissions equipment is mostly deleted. The parts are long gone.
The A/C is also long gone.
The man who did this swap didn’t love the car. My friend didn’t love the car. It spent hard years baking in the Phoenix sun before I bought it with high hopes. All the plastics are brittle, and I only got it to run once in the time I’ve owned it.
My health isn’t great right now, so I’m entertaining selling it away. It’ll part out for more than I’m asking, but I’d rather hang onto it than do that. I’m not in any hurry, and I won’t even respond to silly low-ball offers. I don’t want or need your help selling it. The last thing I need is a trade — I definitely don’t need more old cars.
In fact, don’t even contact me unless you’ve seriously considered what buying something like this represents. You WILL be bringing a trailer and pushing it on. You WILL be getting a truck bed full of bits and bobs. Your wife/SO/family WILL be pissed. Indeed, even once you get it running it WILL be a 30yo turbo rotary. It WILL always be broken or breaking. It WILL always leak on your things. It WILL always smell like a lawnmower. It WILL shoot fire out the exhaust onto people tailgating you (okay, that’s actually a plus).
It’s currently sitting on my old Prelude SH wheels with usable Dunlop Direzza Star Spec II tires. It won’t roll without them. Good offers could include these.
I could put the engine back in the chassis for ease of transport, but honestly any rotary person knows this is the time to rebuild and start clean.
The car needs to go to someone who either wants all the turbo parts to improve another chassis, or a person who longs to see it shine again like I did once. The bottom line is that I already have a summer-only sports car I love, and I really never needed a second one.
Misc Tags: Mazda; RX7; RX 7; RX-7; FC3S; FC RX7; FC RX 7; FC RX-7; Turbo; Rotary; Project
From us:
This is quite the project to take on but for the price, if you’re in the market for a rotary powered FC RX7, this could be a great deal. The owner is right that if he parted it out, he could part it out for more than he’s asking. PPI and Carfax before you buy!
From the owner:
For sale: One 1988 Mazda RX7 project car (home hobby kit)!
The shell is a GTU (all the turbo bits without the turbo), which was stripped for drifting two owners ago. The same person swapped in a complete S4 turbo driveline (engine, trans, driveshaft, clutch-type diff, axles).
I bought it from a friend, non-running — still stripped, with plans to return it to road service. That was over a year ago.
Pros / What You Get:
Chassis is straight, except for two dents pictured.
Motor turns over fine. Trans moves through gears.
720cc injectors.
S4 turbo ecu with Rtek 1.7 chip.
New Walbro 255 fuel pump.
A nearly complete interior trim package (including brand new carpetting!) that I collected via ebay.
Lots of other new parts I planned to install such as brakes and intake bits.
A Sparco racing bucket with a bracket that mostly fits.
K-Sport adjustable coilovers.
A one-year-old unused (tended and cared-for) Duracell battery.
A factory aluminum turbo hood.
4x BBS OEM 15″ rims from the convertible.
All of the exterior trim bits you don’t see on the shell such as the wing and moldings.
Cons / What You Get:
Crushed pinch welds. (Blech… drifters.)
Questionable wiring.
Untested accessories.
Unknown miles on the powertrain.
The BBS wheels are super-rashed. The tires on those rims don’t hold air.
The hood is missing the ultra-hard-to-find plastic trim.
The paint is ruined.
The sunroof is completely dismantled, as it was rusted open (not the way you want it rusted). I can teach you how to put it back together, but the cable still needs to visit a ferrous-metal-reclamation spa before it will seal.
There is no exhaust.
The emissions equipment is mostly deleted. The parts are long gone.
The A/C is also long gone.
The man who did this swap didn’t love the car. My friend didn’t love the car. It spent hard years baking in the Phoenix sun before I bought it with high hopes. All the plastics are brittle, and I only got it to run once in the time I’ve owned it.
My health isn’t great right now, so I’m entertaining selling it away. It’ll part out for more than I’m asking, but I’d rather hang onto it than do that. I’m not in any hurry, and I won’t even respond to silly low-ball offers. I don’t want or need your help selling it. The last thing I need is a trade — I definitely don’t need more old cars.
In fact, don’t even contact me unless you’ve seriously considered what buying something like this represents. You WILL be bringing a trailer and pushing it on. You WILL be getting a truck bed full of bits and bobs. Your wife/SO/family WILL be pissed. Indeed, even once you get it running it WILL be a 30yo turbo rotary. It WILL always be broken or breaking. It WILL always leak on your things. It WILL always smell like a lawnmower. It WILL shoot fire out the exhaust onto people tailgating you (okay, that’s actually a plus).
It’s currently sitting on my old Prelude SH wheels with usable Dunlop Direzza Star Spec II tires. It won’t roll without them. Good offers could include these.
I could put the engine back in the chassis for ease of transport, but honestly any rotary person knows this is the time to rebuild and start clean.
The car needs to go to someone who either wants all the turbo parts to improve another chassis, or a person who longs to see it shine again like I did once. The bottom line is that I already have a summer-only sports car I love, and I really never needed a second one.
Misc Tags: Mazda; RX7; RX 7; RX-7; FC3S; FC RX7; FC RX 7; FC RX-7; Turbo; Rotary; Project
From us:
This is quite the project to take on but for the price, if you’re in the market for a rotary powered FC RX7, this could be a great deal. The owner is right that if he parted it out, he could part it out for more than he’s asking. PPI and Carfax before you buy!
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