Yes, the T5 will go through the stock shifter hole if you can get a straight-up bell housing for the transmission (most bell housings are canted).
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Originally Posted by Rotary_Rocket_87
And i am sorry but if i spend $1000 getting this to work it will be a much better investment than rebuilding as i will have more hp and torque for the same money spent.
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There is no need to be sorry, it is your car, you should make it run like you want it to. I can assure you that I could get more power out of a 350 Chevy than I am getting out of my 4-port rotary. The problem is that I couldn't do it as inexpensively (unless I had a friend/brother who is giving it away, a 270 Hp 350 is going to cost more than $750 installed in an RX7).
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Originally Posted by Rotary_Rocket_87
just makes sense to me. and my brother can build one hell of a v8. he built a 300 hp 283 for a friends mudtruck and it is insane
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If the engine is free, you should have no trouble mounting it in the RX7 for $1000.00. If you are good at fab work, you should have no trouble building your own engine mounts that allow the engine to sit lower and further back. I have a buddy with a 302 Ford in his RX7 that has the stock 50-50 weight distribution and weight (2670 lbs), this is easier with small bock Fords as they have no distributor on the back.
You could get 400 Hp out of a 283 - if you were willing to pay for it. I know several 302 guys that are well over 400 Hp (with only another 1/8" of bore). Of course, they spent more on cylinder heads than I did for my entire rotary engine.
$1000.00 into a 350 will get you 300 Hp pretty easily. If you can find an earlier one (pre-smog) they will make that bone-stock. It is all in what you understand and find the easiest to work on. I have done several v8 swaps into RX7s (because I understood the v8), and then I decided to start working with the rotary engines and found them to be just as much fun, only in a different way.
Rotary engines are simplicity itself, seriously - you should save that engine and rebuild it to put in a dune buggy or something.
If you really don't want it, PM me, I wouldn't mind buying it (Picking it up might prove difficult).