Originally Posted by
1sleeping7
ahem, it costs almost a bare minimum of around 10k to ls1 swap an rx7, and that is honestly bare minimum, I personally know someone who did it all by themselves and it cost them 10k AFTER selling their 13b-rew set up, it is NOT a drop in engine AT ALL you will have to either custom fab a subframe or buy one, you will have to re-wire everything, you will have to make motor mounts, go with a different oil pump set up (I think), custom made drive shaft, you will want a new diff. because the n/a fc won't handle that torque, you will have to re-work the steering rack unless you want to have ridiculous bump steering problems... Please trust me on this, if you decide to try and wing this shit, it's not gonna work worth a damn and you will just end up ruining a perfectly good 7, Matt's FC is clean as hell, not worth fucking up if you aren't going to do it right...
You don't know what you're talking about....
Aaron swapped his FD for about 5K after selling of the running stuff, and PLENTY of others have done even cheaper. FCs have cheaper mount kits from what I've seen. I don't know where you got the bare minimum of 10K from, but it's just wrong.
To the OP, don't give it to Hinson to do. They will absolutely rape you on the prices and you'll end up with shoddy build quality. I strongly urge you to tackle it yourself. It ain't that bad, not nearly as bad as 1sleeping7 is trying to make it. Countless idiots have done it already. I think you'll need a TII diff, I'm not sure if the NA ones have gotten by with stock LS1s.