Much better than a Wankel...

[beaky]

My friend SZ got rid of his RX7 and got into a "wolf-in-sheep's-clothing" 5.0 Mustang; just drove it up here from New Orleans. I haven't driven it yet, but he will be storing it here, and no doubt Baby will need to be started up and aired out every couple of weekends... what are friends for, eh?  ;)

He's planning to put a GT nose on it and Capri lights on the back, but if it were mine I'd keep it the way it is and paint it white. If it looks like a Capri at a glance, when you blow past a trooper at 95 it'll look like it's going 70.

[todayshorse]

Hmmm...depends on which RX-7 it was, twin rotor? Twin turbo? Some of those can be tuned to silly BHP, although its a car i considerd in my japanese turbo fun moment, rotor tips where somthing i didnt fancy doing every 30-40 thousand miles  and swayed me towards somthing more conventional

The original Wankel in the NSU Ro-80, now that was a car!

[Mushroom_Farmer]

Nice. That one is a bit 'newer' than the one I had. I once had a '86 Mustang fastback GT 5.0/HO. It had the 5-speed B/W manual, sun roof, quad rear shocks and trailing arms, factory header manifolds, stainless exhaust, and SEFI fuel delivery. It had closed chamber cylinder heads wich dropped the horsepower a bit, but it had scads of torque and got around 30mpg highway. I picked up a lot of tuning tips over it's life and it was a hoot to drive, but after 14 years and 240,000 miles I let it go on trade for my current daily ride. Last I heard it was somewher in south Texas.

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[quote]and no doubt Baby will need to be started up and aired out every couple of weekends... what are friends for, eh?

[The Ruptured Duck]

he'll have fun with that thing!  I own a '98 Convertible Mustang and I love it!

[DaveSims]

I'd be wary of any car coming from New Orleans.  Thousands of cars spent two weeks under salt water and sewage after Hurricane Katrina, and many have still managed to make it on the used car lot.  :-/

[beaky]

I'd be wary of any car coming from New Orleans.  Thousands of cars spent two weeks under salt water and sewage after Hurricane Katrina, and many have still managed to make it on the used car lot.  :-/

Good point... but this one was high & dry; I believe it was out of town at the time; he may have bought it in Shreveport.

I drove it down to 47N and back today... fun!! 8-)