My Rotary to suby swap! The saga begins page 6, Test fitting the suby- Intake flip issues? Options

[JRust]

Okay so this is my latest find. This is a 74 with a 13b Rotary motor that was built by Racing Beat in CA. Looks like they were in Anneheim. Not sure if they are still around. Guy bought it in similar condition to selling it. When he bought it the motor had overheated. He took it to Racing beat & had it completely rebuilt. Said it was pushing 220hp but only got 5mpg. I know rotary's came in rx-7's for the most part. Thats about the extent of my knowledge of the rotary. The guy has had this sitting in his garage since 99 when it overheated on him. He said it won't run but will turn over. I'll get more detailed pics of the fron radiator setup with oil cooler. Take a look at the motor pics. Defintely looks to have been a pretty hot motor. Kind of figuring to go Suby with the TDI conversion as a possibility.

Anyone looking for a project I have like 3 cars I will be getting rid of (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) .

Anyway take alook at the pics & let me know what you think. Paint code is l64k which is a forest green. Obviously it was repainted some shade of red/orange

[Rotary'14]

If you want to use your 88 motor in your car,,,
You will need an 86~88 automatic counterweight. If the motor you bought is from an automatic car, you might have that already. if not you can buy one (the kennedy flywheel attaches to the auto counterweight) You need to locate an 84~85 GSLSE front cover, the old style engines mounted to the car from the front cover, 86 and later they moved the engine mounts. The GSLSE front cover also has the correct oil metering distributor you need to match up with the 88 oil injection system. You can use your current front cover off your dead engine, but it's not the best, either way you need to swap the front cover. You also have to swap you oil pans, because it depends on which front cover you use. You can buy adaptor plates that would change the stud pattern of the intake to match your current intake set up. or just buy a new intake manifold (not cheap).

If you were to buy another engine,, you want a 1974~1983 13B 4port, with one of these engines, all the stuff you have sitting on your "dead" motor will swap over with minimal fuss.

-Robert

[JRust]

Now I am really lost. I thought the 13b was 2nd gen & started in 1986? All the rx-7s I see pre 86 have the 12a motor? Is there somewhere that has a breakdown of which motors came in which cars