I have a Peter Farrell Supercars RX7 project that should be considered a roller, along with a pretty darn complete untitled parts car that starts and drives but is pretty rough, and a few spares. Located near Richmond, VA.
The car came to me as an active track day car. We updated the cage at Piper Motorsport and prepped it for ITE competition in the SCCA. I blew it up, and started a long, frustrating, and incomplete path to getting it back to active service.
After swapping the engine, we got it run in twin turbo configuration, but it would break up at high RPM. It went to shops in in 3 states, all rotary specialists, and no one ever got it running well enough to race it. Along the way it got new wiring harnesses, standalone engine management, coils, injectors, rebuilds... and it never stopped the breakup at high RPM.
After a few years of chasing that configuration, we pulled the twin turbo and swapped it out for a bridge ported, naturally aspirated engine. The rotating assembly was lightened and balanced, and a standalone engine management system was put in. I don't even remember the brand now. Shocker: the same high RPM problem existed.
We took it to FL, and the root problem was finally determined. There was a break in the FI harness that only caused problems when it got up to temp. However, there were other challenges that never got resolved. The standalone was swapped out with another, an AEM unit. The car ran like a champ. For about 2 sessions. Then would get hard to start, and then would start losing power. Compression lost. It was rebuilt with fresh seals. We repeated that cycle a couple more times, and the car has sat since 2019. It does not run, but all of the components are still there and connected as they were when it died at Road Atlanta in 2019. Body needs TLC, but it's been inside since I've owned it, so it's not rusty. Trans and rear are good. Suspension is old, predating my ownership, and should be updated.
The parts car is a 94, starts and runs, and is pretty close to complete. No title - I bought it as a parts car for the PFS racer, anticipating needing hard to find parts. It's a flood salvage car with no title, no airbags, no stereo... but most everything else is there. I would rebuild it completely before doing anything other than loading and unloading from a trailer. There is certainly enough there to get the PFS car back to twin turbo if someone wants to vintage race it.
I don't have a hard and fast number in my head. At this point, I'm hoping someone wants to take them and get that great PFS car back on the track. I'm not giving them away, though! :^) If there is insufficient interest, I will consider separating, start parting them out, or maybe something else entirely.
I will check this nightly. If there is legitimate interest, we'll figure out how to get in touch.
