Nice work so far. Interested to see how this turns out.
I don’t get why go to all the trouble when a V8 drops in, is lighter and makes more power, but anything is a upgrade from 3 blown rotories 
LOL! Too each their own, but a couple reasons I went 1JZ:
1. I have driven a LS1 RX7 and was not impressed at all. I know there is a ton you can do to them but I have been an import guy my entire life and sticking a domestic V8 in this car just did not work for me.
2. It is not lighter nor makes more power than a 2/1JZ. Do your research. There is a guy on RX7 Club that has corner balanced a 2JZ, LS1, and Rotary car proving that the weight difference is not much over the rotary. The V8 came within pounds of the 2JZ. I wont get into the power comment, you sneeze and you make 500 wheel on a JZ, but it is the same with a LS.
Exactly, to each their own.
Those 3 cars weren’t quite the same (that would probably never happen anyway), but close enough. By the time you add the supporting parts to make 500+ WHP the JZ car is heavier, but not by a wide margin.
I don’t know how you weren’t at least impressed by the V8, if by your own admission it makes the same power and is within pounds. But some cars are built much better than others.
This is not directed at you, but the idiots that whine and cry about the V8 ruining the car are the same ones that drool over the 1JZ/2JZ swaps that are demonstrably worse than the V8 for weight, weight bias and CG.
Again, good progress so far, it should be nice when you are done.
Quick question- is the CD009 gearing ok for use with 1JZ/2JZ and the 4.10 rear gear? I suspect it might be, but it totally sucks when used with an LS and T56. A rear end gear change is needed to a 2.73 rear gear to make the car driveable.
