Will It Run? $1000 RX-7 V8 SWAPPED!
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- bringing the mazda back from the grave and thrashing on it. this is my own little roadkill bit when i was at college. hope you enjoy. 4th of july full video cut. Enjoy!!!
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Link to vehicle history report and owner Info Via VIN Lookup: goo.gl/ox7sTs
(I use this to track down abandoned vehicle info)
Do you still have RX7???
Can't get the link too work ?
There's more than 3 things an engine needs to run, spark,fuel, compression (the three you said) , air and timing
@@smokeythehuman3596 - intake, ignition, compression, exhaust, period. All listed above fall into these 4 categories. This, as explained to us, by an old mechanic and teacher that raced and won alot with a flathead Ford in the early 50's. Thanks for learning, Chuck in NE Kansas
Would like to know if you still have the car for sale
Thumbs up. That loom job is straight from general aviation. FAA approved clamps are spendy, but zip ties are approved...so lots of zip ties. Heads up: They make aviation grade zip ties. Nylon with SS jaws. You could hang a SBC from one. We charged a buck apiece when we used them, but they work great where needed. Heat wont kill them either. Google light airplane parts and supplies if interested in some great options for many things. Also many cool aviation grade stuff is now available cheaper because it's intended for experimentals, so it's not certified. Racers don't care if the FAA likes it or not. That's where the cheap plumbing stuff comes from.
I’m glad you got it moving. Too many of these just sitting and rotting away. In fact, I like all the revivals. Once the classics are gone, they’re gone for good.
I hope that you stay at a point in life where you can keep doing this. With roadkill selling out I feel you are in line to step up and be the next big car show on TH-cam. You've got good ideas and know a lot. Keep putting stuff out and I'll keep watching and supporting.
ardos osarius I got some good resurrection stuff this summer coming up. Have to bring a lot of my own cars back to life!
Awesome rescue! Loved the "never had an engine I didn't care enough about to use this stuff"! I would love to see you and the Roadkill gang have a $1500 cannonball with the fans! Sort of Lemons meets Cannonball Run with beater cars!
18 inches of vacuum at 600 rpm idle i think the previous owner may have told a fib about the "radical" cam
Then move
@@brucekirk5386 genius.
@@brucekirk5386 wtf?
Please keep making videos, I could watch this stuff all day.
That rotstang is coming soon. Stay tuned lol
I would get into so much trouble with a car like this, and I find that acceptable.
Great fun! Reminds me of my late teens when I bought an old 2wd Ford Ranger with a over cammed 351W stuffed in it, it was pretty haggard but had a blast with it!
Sounds like it was probably awesome !
Oh yeah haha!
Those G20 conversion vans in the mid-90's are great tow and work vans, as long as they have the TBI 350 and 700R4. Cheap now too. Rear outer axle bearings need replaced around 150k, otherwise very reliable.
Yep. I am van lifing around the country in one now. 223,000 miles. 👍
@@lokijohnsmith92 I had one that was home-build converted into a camper, full kitchen, Microwave, fridge, stove, twin bed, Central Air, Propane, Fresh and gray water tanks. It was the ultimate mini-RV for 2.
Hopefully you are enjoying something like that. I should Never have sold it.
I watched a first year Mazda Rx7 get dragged down the railroad tracks. I was 17 and my cousin and I watched the whole thing. The guy had just got the car and stalled it on the railroad tracks. Why he didnt just knock it out of gear and push it off the tracks is beyond me. He may have locked the starter into the flywheel or somehow locked the transmission up. He had his motherbwith him. He pleaded to have her help him push it off but you could hear her yelling it was too late. Just so you know, the tracks were old and the top speed for that train was probably 35 MPH. It was a slow motion wreck. We sat on our bicycles watching this RX -7 being broad sided and rolled down the tracks shedding parts as it went. By the time the train stopped, that little car was cut in half. The rear end was the only thing still whole. The guy managed to save his cassette holder for his tape player. I remember him crying by the side of the road. I think he was about 23- 25 years old. He was mad at his mom( like it was her fault). I refuse to ever cross the tracks when the signal is going since seeing that.
You cracked me up doing doughnuts in a subdivision and people out walking around hahaa ,to freakin cool brotha🤙
Pretty ambitious intake. Ha. You are so understated. Love it.
Enjoyable little video. I'm glad the entire thing is in a single episode.
I us usually do them in multi video layout, then when I am done I put them all together. Got another one I'm doing that I just picked up yesterday
I'll definitely give it a watch too.
We're cut from the same cloth man, I love buying cars that someone else put a ton of work and money into but can't get them to run. Then by using a good common sense trouble shooting procedure, fire them up and have some fun. My wife just shakes her head, it's like a drug man. Retired 68 yr old mechanic. Love your vids.
It's amazing. Love doing it. Need to stop but clearly won't
HAHAHA!! I bet your neighbors love that you do burnouts and 180s in front of their houses. That was a pretty quick fix for you. Nice job Luke!!
Yeah, not my best choice in 2015
I remember this for sale (both times) but son bought a ‘73 Torino instead.
My younger son is into RX7s. He has a 88 fc and 96 FB right hand drive both with Dorito chips. Hope to find a Ford swap rx7 to track.
I also like your Maverick lawn mower carb build. Keep it up!
Put some chemtool and mystery oil in the cyls and let it sit for a couple days to try and free up the rings. Then run some of both in the gas for a while to clear out all the varnish and make sure the valves don't stick open.
The VERY best carb man EVER!!!
Damn, that is a lot of room between shock towers. My BBC with short w pump and fans in front of radiator looks like a fit. Nice score.
With a non power brake booster.
chevrolet van, ford powered mazda rx7 on a uhaul trailer. theres a country song in here somewhere.
More like this is in a country song somewhere
@@chipcool6654 if not, it should be lol
yamahonkawazuki I’m sure if you listen hard enough it’s in a Nickelback song or two....wouldn’t be surprised
My father banged my brother's aunt in the back of the rx ford
@@grunttheaussie6141 tight squeeze Eh?
For the camera, get a chest mount off of eBay, they are pretty darn cheap, and i'm sure you'll find one for your camera. Try and find the ones with mounts on them, mainly because then, you can find various adapters, which allow you to move the camera around. Perfect for a one-man-show. It's the same kind of setup most survival shows on TV use for their stars.
On the episode itself, really neatly done. Clean, nothing extra, nothing too little of. I like it.
I appreciate the positive feedback and useful ideas. Thank you!
This is real world! Well done and documented.
"Little red, corv-!"
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You know.. I love how you work on these cars and won't give up. About that Mazda.. I really wonder if someone didn't put DIESEL into it... It does look like it.. But great job of getting rid of it and making it work again. Just thought I would comment on that...
Thanks so much! man this is really a window into my youth. 6 or 7 years ago now I did this. Boy how time flys
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Yea Man.. I know it.. I am just now getting caught up on all you video's. I literately just found you and I have to say you are very informative on things I am still learning.. You have more options available considering I am in here in California.. but still I am leaning a lot from you.. and some of the other youtubers as well... I can relate to you cause I think you and I might be alike in way, I just love how you pull older cars out and revive them back alive.. You will go to any length it takes so do I. I am really glad you are doing this.. cause that is kinda what I would like to do too but I don't have as many options as you do.. but please keep it up man. Your awesome at what you do.
awesome! nice to see all the procedures you went through. great video
I bet your neighbors just LOVE you! lol
I loved your "Road Kill" plug. Great show!! And you made a great video!
Thank you! I have other video series out there under the roadkill title and more are to come. Dissatisfied with how roadkill has gone, so I have started to make my own
Road Kill was a great show!! One of the best out there. Now its just Finnegans garage I think. To bad. They were a great team.
its totally still around, its just not so good anymore
Had my doubts when your video first came up, but it pulled me in quick. Really enjoyed it, keep up the good work!
Thanks! I usually do street rod engine and tuning how to, but every once in awhile I try to get out and take something ridiculous like this on just to see if I can. I was going to drive it across country, but someone bought it first
awww. I'd have liked to see you get it roadworthy at least.
im pretty sure i did, im not sure what you watched, but in the video the thing is driving up and down the road, doing donuts and what not. id call that roadworthy
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Roadworthy is a car that's not crimping fenders to compensate for worn out/lack of springs. I should edit that. A 5 litre v-8 is a lot heavier, so it's not worn springs or shocks causing the problem, it's not even a chopped spring lower kit, it's just all the extra weight. It needs more spring, or spring boosters to pick it's nose up. More important, a new steering gearbox so it's not randomly changing lanes because there's so much gap between rounded off teeth. (I had a pinto that was 20/40 degree from center left to right before it would respond, shoulda died driving that car. Had pvc plastic for steering gear) Basically, something that you'd be willing to drive that does 120mph and not worry that the bushings in the tie rods being so worn it wouldn't wobble off the road. Doing 1st and 2nd gear idles and donuts in the suburbs doesn't qualify as safe to drive in traffic or at speed. See my point? I'm not slamming you, that was some great work, it's just what's driveable isn't necessarily roadworthy, if you sold that to a teenager, they could kill someone, maybe themselves, maybe others. You got the engine running, but everything else? Stopped leak in the radiator, nosmoke.exe in the oil, we have to assume everything else in the car was thrashed just as badly. My biggest issue is still all that weight on a beat-up front end that could just self-destruct at any moment. How fast did you get it up to? I'd figure it'd run like a bat outta hell, so at least triple digits?
im with you, i didnt trust the rest of the car at those speeds, never exceeded 85, mostly just did some donuts and what not. yes that is the biggest caveat with engine swaps that i swear no one ever considers. that work was getting to intensive for me for what my intensions were with the car (get it running to see if i could, then sell it) i have 5 cars, and didnt need that one in my life. both my galaxie and f100 would melt that thing down on a drag pull. anyway, hence the name of the car in the title. seemed fitting.
Woooow, an amateur with the balls of a pro. Five things are needed for an engine to run btw, not just three. Fuel, air, compression, timing, and spark. Lubrication & cooling help keep them running. I would've changed out all fluids after getting it and correcting the blow by. Plus put in a new gas tank, new fuel filter/s (that aren't touching the valve cover *smacks forehead*) new oil filter when I changed the oil, put some Restore in the oil for the compression issues, new tranny fluid filter while I was changing the trans fluid, new spark plugs, cables, and distributor, cleaned out the carb & got a new air filter with a ram air scoop, and so on and so forth. $10k-$15k in time, care, and parts/tuning, and that car would be a supercar killer.
LOL this thing was a bondo bucket clunker. The fact that I sold it for 800 more than I bought it for with putting hardly any money into it was amazing.
This was 4 years ago.
I’m thunderhead289 - I know more than you.
Great video! Interesting as Hell and I learned a few things! More, please!
More to come for sure
lol , i love it, and the way you drive through the hood...reminds me of....me, when i was a youngster with my bikes and hot rods. fun video
Man I love the body style of that rx7
Nice vid, man! I miss the old low-buck Roadkill thrash, too. Wonder if it would be worth putting a dual plane intake back on this thing, even a stock cast iron?
Oh by far. That intake is a horrible item for that engine. I got more low buck stuff coming
How intelligent of you to do this is a neighborhood. Class act my friend
Better than driving out of town without it registered or insured and getting pulled over. At least this way I could hide in a pinch. Clearly that all wasn't my best plan
Nice video. I appreciate the "home brew" approach. I'll spare you another lecture on the neighborhood antics as I sensed a level of remorse (and pot calling kettle black). Would be great to see that car converted back to rotary. Bet it would be faster with a turbo 13b. The Australians seem to have a solid handle on rotaries. Probably too late and too Frankensteined for that. Otherwise, LS1 to the rescue.
Awesome video!You make its seem so easy sticking with the basics.
Thank you! Appreciate some positive feedback!!!
Its cool hopefully you can bring some more videos like that.Trouble shooting basics love it.Its amazing how many people dont know anything about vehicle's.
Or simply dont take the time
Cool car, nice job getting it going again.
Finally! A Ford man I can follow................ Subscribed!
I got a 83 RX7 with a 350 for 1500$ but I got a 3 speed Chevy and the original rear end, you got a steal dude.
I picked up a 1980 with a 302 in it as well. The crank in that was shot so I'm currently in the process of putting a 351w in it next week.
Pop up head light cars are the fricken best!
You should have given him the whole $1500. That car is worth so much more
I offered him 13, he gave it to me for a grand because he said I could never get it running.
WTF are you talking about? Your saying that the person should not have negotiated so well?
An object is only worth what the purchaser and seller agree on. No more, no less. Good work ThunderHead
+ThunderHead289 car still available?
+Danny I the car was sold a few months back. It's in Ohio as far as I know now
+Danny I thanks man I really appreciate it!
RX7 was a mean little ride
I am sooooo jealous,you cannot find anything this clean in Michigan for that money! keep us updated
You just reminded me why i moved out of the suburbs!
Great find! love the sbf!
Damnit.. i talked to this guy and nearly traded my town car for this. Glad to see it found a home
I bought it in waverly, I had it for sale in Ames after all of this madness
Interested in a 1994 Lincoln Town car haha
Interested in a 1994 Lincoln Town car haha
+Gavin VanMaanen someone In West Virginia bought it on eBay
Fuck the haters.
I enjoyed your video.
Same here.. Some people just do not know how to appreciate vehicles regardless of how the look or run..
If you've never driven an R-X7 with the original rotary engine you don't know how messed up a V8 swap is.
Depends on the V8 swap
I'm guessing you sold it already? Damn I'd love to have that!
oh hell yeah!!!!! true roadkill style there, buddy! Awesome!!!!
Nice driving in a residential neighborhood.
Awesome vid! I miss when Roadkill was more like that. When is your next episode? Itd be cool to get a 69 or 70 460 powered lincoln from a junkyard and thrash it!
You aren't a kidding!!!! Whenever I see something unique, I'm usually down to give it a run through!
I like your videos you explain what your doing very well.With a little work I think it would make a good drag car
drag? You mean ROAD car... You can find lots of videos of homemade and some indepent makers for "Monster Miatas", doing the same thing, 5 litre v-8s in a tiny 2-seat japomobile... kicks the back out when you want, corners like a beast, accelleration is awesome, it could be drift, but ideally a daily driver on steroids. Beat that soccer mom to the parking space kinda thing.
Love videos like this (great video and sweet car) keep up the good work
Thank you thank you! Sometimes I do fun things like this outside of the usual automotive how to. Just to see if I can I guess
Also a quick question, if you tried using some fuel additives, like either octane boost for high perf cars, or some lead additive for lead-burning engines, do you think you could resurrect the fuel that's in the tank that's been standing for ages?
no cause the chemical structure of the gas changes over time. he said it was lacquered already, gas basically turns into varnish. and theres no way to resurrect that gas other than to strain or filter out what has already lacquered. and varnish is basically an oily brownish black grease left over from gas thats totally evaporated and dried away
I got it, but if you say, get a bunch of the varnish, scrape it off, dump it in some pure alcohol or paint stripper, it should dissolve, and discolor the alcohol. Sort of "rehydration" but alcohol/oil based, if you see what I mean. If you dump enough (exxon calls it detergent, lol) fuel through it, it should be able to ablate the sticky surfaces, as I understand it. Even a long soak in really dirty used motor oil should be able to soften some of it up.
great journey i am having with you while watching this video
Nice video.
Next time don't do it in ur neighborhood. "The nail that sticks out gets hammered"
Yeah, that's good advice. I'd of ventured out farther, but I never signed the title, just moved it along to the next guy as if I never owned it.
+ThunderHead289 like a pro, keep it up. I do the same stuff.
holy crap you haven't heard my neighbors yet. Big ass diesel trucks that do,and have for years, go for dk coffee at 630 am. I wish I had cool cars around here. good video
Be careful running that 4.0 Jeep filter. My dad and I ran one on a 351 Cleveland in a Cobra kit car. Filter blew off, soaked the header heat wrap and the fiberglass body burned to the ground. Run remote filter(s)!
I was hoping still had rotary in it
$1000 for this is a steal
No kidding. Was fun while I had it
You could say the same about the brakes. Glad they worked.
+KC9MDO yeah, the Chevy luv I'm doing right now has barely any. Need to straighten that out. The Mazda brakes were strong!
I slammed a brewski everytime he said "ANYWAY". Man, I'm wasted!
@16:19, have you ever worked on cars in the alaskan wilderness? You exposed our secret (who needs a rag wrapped around the screwdriver?) tool for removing stuck oil filters. It's kind of hard to see, but is the exhaust smoke blue or white? I'm assuming we're looking at a head gasket if it's also escaping around the heads, not bad rings. I've got a steamer '76 C-10 stepside right now, a leak in one head gasket that's letting water into one cylinder, and some seepage out the head, but it's white, not blue/black. I'm surpised with the stuck needle that so much gas got into the oil, the carb doesn't hold that much, does it? Or would it be because the previous owner kept trying to start it, pressurizing the fuel, then let it sit when the batt died repeatedly?
Your neighbors must have loved the donuts.
Great Job Pal!
Good deal either way electric fan from advance auto parts run wires to a.c. button
2:05 i always thought air was pretty important too ;-)
Awesome, besides testing around houses. Fix that and you should be set! Keep making content!!
Run that breather hose to a pipe into the end of our exhaust the Venturi effect could really keep your crank case pressures down I was just learning about that
That is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
If I would have had the time, Ida make it real decent
ThunderHead289 That thing sounded like she had some OOMPH in it.
I HATE the sound of those old direct drive starters when they don’t have 13.5 volts. They sound so shitty and slow. Gear reduction for the win!!
Edit: my 99 subie has the original starter at 270,000 miles and it turns over like a motorcycle lol, nice and quick.
I love these rx7s in THE 80s i used to work for AJM Mazda in chadwell heath loved road testing THESE CAR I SHIT THE LIFE OUT OF THE YOUNG Apprentice on road test and I was only young myself I was only about 20 or 21 and they was such fast cars especially in the day nobie told the manager and i wasnt allowed to drive rx7s no MORE had a wicked time just a not that full exhaust for rx7 back then was £2000 fitted 30 years ago''
Oh yes, I bet he is getting acquainted with the neighbors, BTW , I miss the low buck road kill also. they sold out.
Did you happen to pick that thing up somewhere near waterloo/cedarfalls iowa? Pretty sure I remember a rx7 with a goofy air cleaner stuck through the hood, and a james bond smoke screen out the back, running up and down university ave back in the day trying to run everyone lol
I sure did. That guy went to jail too apparently
+ThunderHead289 that doesn't surprise me, kid that was running around in it back then wasn't exactly the brightest peanut in the turd. As for the "radical cam" its basically a stock 90's roller long block as you figured out there. Car has been around awhile, I know its switched hands a few times.
Best part on that car is that GM HEI distributor! LOL
People always badmouth that, but I like them. If you break down, parts are readily available everywhere
A buddy of mine did the exact same swap on his 85 RX7, except he put a 5 speed in it. It was a fast car. I would've rather seen it with a 13b rotary...
A bridge ported 13B of course! 😃
What a steal for $1000
Just awesome
Why did you eff with the firing order before doing anything else? One would assume the silly thing was running when it was parked, no?
One would assume, but the fella told me that he messed with everything when he tried to get it running. The old owner was in prison
Man, what a pile!😜 I guess you got your $1000 worth with a rolling chassis anyway. That 302 needs some serious help, and if you actually do build a performance motor for it, it would probably be a good idea to find a good SBF C6 that you could build along with it to handle the horsepower.😉
I bought it for 1000, made money on videos, and sold it for 1800 in 3 weeks.
I did okay.
@@ThunderHead289 Heh heh, cool.. good investment then!😁 *EDIT:* I just now noticed the posting date on the vid.. just came up in my recommended vids today. TH-cam AI at it's finest.🤣
Absolutely. It was handy when college was reaching all the way to the bottom of my wallet (this was circa 2015)
You do trades? I have a '71 International Harvester 1210 pickup. 3/4 ton, 460 Ford with a C-6. Trans needs front seal and 460 needs freeze plugs. Needs brake work. In central Texas.....
Keep it, don't resell!😎
Barhdal stop smoke puts a coating of silicone on every internal part of that motor. Dont use alot of it can plug off oil galleys.
It's some serious snake oil stuff. Seemed like a good candidate for trial lol
Awesome!
4 things, don't forget exhaust, speaking from experience.
CaRs like setup like that remind me of Monza cars however get rid of that RV battery terminal buy some straight ones that's where some of your juice for the battery are going. Nice find though.
My goal was to get the thing going as cheaply as possible. I would never do that on a legitimate ride. I feel ya on the juice loss. It was a fun project. It went to WV for 1800
The reason I stated that is because my RV did have those I bought some cheepy ones from orielly for3 bucks and it didn't lose battery power as much
I got my buddies with me (dogs).. Love it..
Wow! Nice deal. Can you install a weed eater carburetor on it, to see if it will run and get good mpg? 🚗🚘
Arkansas has had ethanol gas since the 70's... I am *so* sick of having to tear apart fuel systems for everything from lawnmowers to weedeaters and leafblowers and generators just because you can't leave any gas in them for a month before they varnish everything in a protective goop. We should use that on mothballed warships, they'd never rust.
Wow, that motor looks like it was born in there! Looks factory.
THAT LOOKS LIKE A FUN RIDE
It's a mazstang it would be a pretty dope little car if you get it right I like it
Why 3 inline fuel filters... wouldn't one do the job? I mean, isn't the first filter going to catch everything - curious to know what you are worried about exactly?
1st step would be take the edelbrock carb off & throw it in the trash
Sweet van!
It's referred to as a "road draft tube". A La series 60 Detroit diesel. Good thinking.
What a great deal! I love buying other peoples problems and fixing em up
It's a ton of fun. I have another one on the hook right now that I'm starting on
I used to do much the same with Jeeps....good times
I bought it new in 1980 while in the Navy, got married and of course sold it. Always wondered what became of it. It's possible...
If I remember what Dad told me back in high school, I think that the 351 Windsors block is only half an inch or an inch longer then the 302 and I believe he said an inch taller. Although I may be wrong, but if I'm right you might be able to put that 351 Windsor out of the van into the Mazda. I do know that my dad transplanted his 351 Windsor with a 4-speed into his 66 Mustang Fastback
But the 351 Cleveland is so much more fun!
Jump Pack or up your revs on start wagon alternators need at least 1400 rpm to start charging good