I have the EMS in hand, along with a wideband, and a harness so no cutting/splicing, plugNplay all the way....

I just got my koni's and my sways are in town, although not in my hand, and I have cusco cross braces ordered as well. I'm also planning later this year to add J's or Spoon's halfshaft spacers and solid diff mounts to calm down some of that shimmy over rough surfaces, hope it helps


Here's my latest though about the motor: how about boring it up to 2.2L then de-stroking it back to 2.0L and trying for 12K rpm ?

 

if you wanna get rid of the shimmy, just shim the dropout carrier in your rearend. much cheaper, but you have the problem of resetting backlash and proper ring/pinion gear pattern... but MUCH cheaper

did you get koni coil-overs or koni springs? i wonder if i need a strut tower brace. i have everything else but skimped on the strut tower brace because i heard it does jack crap... i have no body flex whatsoever... id say most of the stiffness was from the x-brace, and tie-rods.... iunno


you NEED an x-brace, though, if you dont already have one




but ya ive been thinking about bore/de-stroke for quite awhile - it would qualify for a loophole in SCCA unlimited under 2.0 liters

they say it has to be factory block, but internals can be modified and discplacement equal to factory displacement, and under 2.0 liters. it didnt say factory bore/stroke must be retained..

 

yeah, that's the crossbrace, it's not x shaped so I don't call it that, but same thing.

I've heard the same about the tower brace, and hence I don't have one, and once the J's damper goes on I can't have one so I said fock it. bleh

I always like the Gen 2 RX7 tower brace, it connected the two towers then bolted to the motor in the center, everything is rock solid

 

bolted to the motor?


so the motor was on solid motor mounts?

 

you can, but no. the bar bolting to the motor acted to stop the engine from torqueing over, which, interestingly enough, the Gen2 had quite a bit of.....

 

so it wasnt a fixed mounting point to the motor - it allowed for SOME freeplay? just not too much, and in only certain directions, im assuming...




but tell about those rotaries, they make more torque than they know what to do with!!!! make my 600rwtq look puny

 

TORQUE THE FRAME



NOT THE MOTOR!!!

 

it just stopped the motor from twisting, but the motor still can wiggle a bit

 

Wickster is at the end of Alex

 

no, he IS the end of me!!!