Turrbie@aol.com wrote:

Paul,
Just wire in a pair of GM ignition modules. They are electronically similar
and are actually a little hotter than the Mitsubishi units used by Mazda. I
have one in my Toyota truck as a substitute for the stock $180.00 unit. The
coolest part is that you can buy them, after-market, for under $20.00. And
yes, I've used them on earlier RX7s. They get the stock coils a little warm
since they weren't designed to be saturated at 5 1/2 amps. The addition of 2
GM remote dry core coils will give the system a 40kv capability.
Bruce Turrentine

Yes I have heard that about the GM units.
We have a little problem out here in CA. If it don't look stock it
don't pass smog. I don't think I could get away with it.
So much for the 85 RX7. 

Anyway I have thought about it some more and I only
have two years before the 76 13B Cosmo is smog exempt. It has AC so I
will
fix that up. I can put EFI/IGT on it if I wish. I already have a set
of old Racing Beat headers for it to replace the thermal reactor.
I will send them out and get them ceramic coated. I ran them for a few
years before the smog inspection was implemented. I then had to
re-install the (gutted) thermal reactor to make it look stock.

I will pull the engine apart and check it over replacing what
is necessary. It was running fine when I parked it in the hangar 
but I am not sure I got all the coolant out of it. Could be some 
corroded rotor housings.

Racing Beat is selling the heck out of their old Holly manifolds 
because people are fixing up early 70's 12A/13B rotary engined
RX2's, RX3's and RX4's. There is a 73 13B RX2 coupe in the paper 
for $2500. Fast and nifty car. I had a new one (12A). As I recall
it sold for about $8,000 to $10,000 new. That averages about 
$300 a year depreciation :-). I should have kept mine.

Besides that I priced some 71 TransAm's and they are going for $14,000.
Believe it or not 74 cars and earlier are both real high priced  and 
extreamly rare out here in CA. Some oil company has been buying up all 
the old 74 and older car junkers for $600 to get smog credits.
They then get the money back by charging higher prices for gas.
The whole situation has gone crazy. 

Don't throw those old cars away.

Paul Lamar
 
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