I have a few questions, First off I am planning on doing an engine swap into my first gen in like two weeks. I am going to put a turbo II engine in. but I Wanted to Upgrade the turbo with maybe a TO4. I want to be able to boost like 16-20 PSI, but also be able to turn it down to stock boost, because this will be my daily car... If I wire in a stock Turbo II ECU will that be able to handle the bigger turbo, or will I be better of going with like a wolf 3d ECU? ....If the Wolf 3d ECU would, be better Where and how much could I get one?

the stock ecu wont do a very good job with a bigger turbo, and its harder to set up. haltech, microtech, wolf, electromotive all make ecu's that will work fine



mike

Okay I have a t2 gsl-se (mods in the sig). First off, you cannot use a bigger turbo and keep the n/a tranny and driveshaft. It WON'T hold up. I have stock s5 turbo with boost limited to 10-11psi and my car is making 245 rwhp and 233 ft-lb. torque. The car is already at it's handling limit. It's hard to keep the rear end from fish tailing under full throttle. I can't imagine boosting to 20psi without some dramatic changes to improve handling. Unless off course you only want it for straight line racing.

yeah I wasn't going to keep the stock tranny, driveshaft or rearend. I was going to go with a turbo II tranny with a stage 2 clutch or better. And I was deciding what kind of rearend I Was going to use. I want to shoot for 320 hp.

Post some pics of this bad boy!!

ditto we want pics

Yeah what he said.I asked alot of questions before I started mine.Just use the search bar at the bottom and do a search on the swap topic.You'll find several thread on this topic.

dammit you all have turbo fb's? i may have to jump on the bandwagon too



mike

Yea, really.. a turbo FB would be cool.

we have them but alot are still not running.Mine and setzeps come to mind. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...O_DIR#>/11.gif

we have them but alot are still not running.Mine and setzeps come to mind. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...O_DIR#>/11.gif [/quote]

true that

so what tranny do you use to handle more than 250rwhp?

we have them but alot are still not running.Mine and setzeps come to mind. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...O_DIR#>/11.gif [/quote]

Mine is. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683473.gif https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/BURNOUT.gif https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683785.gif https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/cool.png



It even has lights. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/blink.png

For everyone's info, I am using a 83 12a tranny. It is holding up (fingers crossed) because I have not really abused it with hard shifts yet. I do plan on upgrading to a t2 tranny. Here are a couple of pics. To be honest, I did not build the pretty engine you see. I bought the car from a guy in mass. who just finished building the car. I was going to get a t2 but this is sooo much cooler than a 2nd gen and only weighs in at about 2400lb.

and the car pic.....

I'll be gone for a week but i'll take some more pics of anything anyone is interested in after that.

Sweet! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/bigok.gif I like it.

Car looks great, congrats.



Couple of questions, are you sure the guy you bought it off from, didn't recently purchase it from a guy in

Florida? - the car looks familiar.



Also, what size wheels are those?

T2 transmission. It's from a newer (second gen) Rx-7 turbo.

rxseven- car does look great! You can tell the builder spent some time on that sucker. Can I ask how much you had to pay for the car?

we have them but alot are still not running.Mine and setzeps come to mind. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...O_DIR#>/11.gif [/quote]

https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...>/rolleyes.gif https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub..._DIR#>/sad.png https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...O_DIR#>/11.gif My goal is july 1st, I want to at least start the rough tuning by then.

Is that stock brake rotor size? Looks bigger to me for some reason.

Thank you all for the positive comments. Directfreak, the car is not from florida. I have all the receipts of the past 5 years and they are not from there. Setzep, those are 16" rims I got recently and the rotors are stock. Yes, the PO put a lot of time and money into the car. When I got the entire list of mods and things bought for it, it was quite a bit. As an example, the oil cooler was bought new and we all know how much those costs!

FYI, I paid 6500 plus shipping for it. The money put in the car was well over that, no regrets.