Donor cars

Catchup:

I apologize for being so inactive this past week, lots of different things have been stealing my attention away. Thanks for sticking around, all you readers are really awesome!

I took a trip to a friend’s house today to check out a pair of ‘project’ cars his father is selling. Two NA 13b-powered RX7 convertibles. After taking some measurements (width, height from subframe, height from ground, and length), I think this particular engine will fit into the CRX engine bay without any major modification. I’ll probably have room on the sides, in fact.

Driver:

Since he’s selling two, I’ll probably make one my daily driver and make the other the donor car. Here’s the potential daily driver (the convertible top leaks a bit, but that’s fixable):

Donor:

Here’s the salvage-titled donor. It lacks power steering, which means I may end up using its manual steering rack in addition to the engine. I’d like to see what kind of ratio it has, and how people review the ‘feel’ as being. It’s entirely possible that I’ll use the stock CRX steering rack, but I like exploring other options as well.

Stay posted for more, and any words of encouragement are heartily accepted! I’ll put up pictures and measurements of the CRX engine bay later this weekend as things progress forward. If all goes very well, I’ll have my truck sold and out of the driveway this week, and I’ll have somewhere to put these two.