What a Guy at Sema told me this morning...
11-03-2004, 07:34 AM
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Everyone seems to like the Mercedes SLR? I saw one on the street outside a dealership here in Chicago a few weeks back, I thought it was about the ugliest thing I'd ever seen. Certainly not worth the "upwards of $450,000" that the salesman quoted me.
11-03-2004, 08:03 AM
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Okay guys like I said, I still haven't read the manual to my new camera
11-03-2004, 08:21 AM
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Originally Posted by shaolin
If someone knows how to take pics of interiors behind windows with fluorescent lights reflecting, please enlighten me.
11-03-2004, 10:31 AM
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HOLY CRAP!!!
MV Agusta F4 1000!!! Had I seen that in real life, I'd need a change of pants IMMEDIATELY!!!
Signal Auto R34 Skyline GTR!!! Oh man...
ME412?!? geez... life sucks right now.
MV Agusta F4 1000!!! Had I seen that in real life, I'd need a change of pants IMMEDIATELY!!!
Signal Auto R34 Skyline GTR!!! Oh man...
ME412?!? geez... life sucks right now.
11-03-2004, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Icemastr
A lot of people make the 20B sound like a common swap, peice of cake, especially people who know about 3 things about rotaries and how all their friends with RX-7s blew 3 motors and put a 20B in so they could make real power.
In actuality when you consider that only a small handful of 20B motors were even made, and probably less than 100 cars in the whole world have had a 20B swapped into them, doesnt seem so common a swap does it?
The 20B swap is just not feasible for your regular guy, so expect to see performance made with the renesis, not with a swap where more RX-8s are sold per month than there were motors ever produced.
In actuality when you consider that only a small handful of 20B motors were even made, and probably less than 100 cars in the whole world have had a 20B swapped into them, doesnt seem so common a swap does it?
The 20B swap is just not feasible for your regular guy, so expect to see performance made with the renesis, not with a swap where more RX-8s are sold per month than there were motors ever produced.
You are so right on. It takes HUGE CASH to do that swap.
11-03-2004, 11:55 AM
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I would go with a 13BRE(1st choice) or 13B-T swap over a 13B-REW swap. At least the 13B-T have shown to last over 150,000 miles in stock form with more than just a few speciments. I will have a 13B-REW for sale shortly though. Probably no transmission though as I am going to keep it for my Miata.
11-03-2004, 06:18 PM
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hey jon jon ill post my pics in here tonight for you. oh and there were a few turbo rx-8s at sema which I did get pics of so no worries guys ill show you all the 8's I saw.
11-03-2004, 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by devious12
Acosta told me 50k to do a 3 rotor swap! 
No way! I know it's expensive, but that is way overpriced!
No way! I know it's expensive, but that is way overpriced!
11-03-2004, 07:45 PM
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It's not common, cool and out of the ordinary. but you are completely right Ikewrx about being able to buy another exotic and not dump that sort of money into a Mazda. I love my Mazda, but I love my money more.
11-04-2004, 12:32 AM
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go here for the album http://www.clubatenza.com/galleries/...lbum=50&page=1
11-04-2004, 01:21 AM
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That Mini is pretty damn cool, get any interior shots of it?
11-04-2004, 01:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Timba24
go here for the album http://www.clubatenza.com/galleries/...lbum=50&page=1
11-04-2004, 02:11 AM
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Originally Posted by rotarygod
It is Alpine's demo car. Go to www.alpine-usa.com . At the top of the page, click on "support". Within support you will find "demo cars". The Mini Cooper S is one of them. All of the pictures of the install and finished product are there. There are hundreds of pictures.
Thanks RG, I'm not a big show car guy but that's mighty impressive. I can't even imagine the man hours that went into that car.
11-04-2004, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by IkeWRX
That's about right and pretty standard, well not standard but the going rate :p It's not an easy swap and requires a lot of supporting mods and labor hours. A while back someone broke down the cost the their 20b swap into their FD and it added up to nearly 85k is I recall. Which leads to another reason why it's just not common. How many people out there are going to put nearly 100k into a Mazda when you could be driving around in a Viper or used Exotic and not even have to be as well off since you can finance those...
