Dave Arbogast wrote:

How much should I pay in the Midwest for a used 13B ? What should I

look

for? I

want to turbocharge / turbo - normalize it. Are all RX-7 models of a

certain age

turbos?

Am  I better off buying an entire car to get all the pieces and

parts?

--
-dave
mailto:dave@arb.net
http://arb.net

I would go for the complete running car. That way you can be sure you
are not getting ripped off and you can use a lot of the parts.
Junk yard engines could be just that.

Travel around the country if necessary to find a good one.
The best years for the Turbo II are 1990-91 and maybe 1989 I am not
sure
about that. Prior turbos crack a lot more and later dual turbos are
just
not suitable. Prices should be around $2.000 to $3.000.
Not all cars are turbo. What you are looking for is the Turbo II.

Paul Lamar

Brett & Tiana wrote:

Hey Dave,

There's a rebuilder here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada who does excellent
re-builds on these engines for very reasonable prices and will ship to

you.

 His name is Adam Heyman and he owns and operates RX7 Specialties, a

rebuild

shop that supplies engines to other RX7 repair shops and installers all

over

the western U.S. and Canada. Apparently they can't beat his prices so

they

just buy engines from him.
 His prices for a stock un-modified 13B are in the $2000 U.S. range, but

for

a reasonable fee he will also perform any specific mods that you may

want

for aircraft use.
Considering that buying a running RX7 in the $1000 range just to score a
used engine will only save you $1000 or so, and also considering the

fact

that it's going into an AIRPLANE, I'd think this may be your best

option.

I do believe a guy on this newsletter (I think his name was Rusty)

bought an

engine from Adam for his plane.

I have one of Adams engines in my 86, a former student of mine also has one
too. So far absolutely no problems and I have probably close 80,000 miles on
mine. He builds the engines for our local Mazda dealership and he can also
beat their price on factory Mazda parts, although shipping cut into that
margin a bit. He also has a lot of used parts too.
John

Anyone got his number and address?
-dave

-dave
mailto:dave@arb.net
http://arb.net

BTW we are getting a lot of messages about some new viruses out there.
Our policy is not to publish this stuff as we would be at it all the
time.

My suggestion is go with Linux for your email as Linux is 99% immune
to
all viruses and 100% immune to Windows viruses. You don't have to
give up all your Windows software. There are several ways around
that. You can dual boot or have two computers or you can run a Windows
emulator called wine. Linux comes with utilities to convert Windows
files to Linux files and vice versa.

Paul Lamar
 
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