It's the beginning of the year, and it's thawed a bit in the last few days, so I knocked out a few mods, and got this list together.
6 Port 13B w/ a full (proper) TurboII conversion
3" Racing Beat Downpipe w/ no cats
APEXi SAFC-II controller
ISC Racing radiator w/ hard cooling pipes
Flex-a-lite electronic fan w/ controller
Sard R2D2 BOV
Racing Beat Boost Controller/Gauge
720CC Secondary injectors
Walbro 255lph (High-Flow version) fuel pump
Racing Beat Fuel-cut defender
Pineapple Racing Alternator relocation kit & de-powered steering rack
Serpentine 6 rib belt & pulley kit.
Tokico Illumina struts w/ Tokico springs.
Next up is a FMIC (of some sort) and wheels/tires. Still need to decide on those though.
High Boost + Rotory Engine = New Engine
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Option D wrote:High Boost + Rotory Engine = New Engine
Ignorance + Post = Waste of Post.
The rotary is plenty reliable under boost if you take care of it and tune it right.
thats what I heard... and there easy to rebuild I heard also.
Sard R2-D2 is sweet! Thats gonna be a cool FC. It just needs to be a different color lol
brandon george (lazy ecotec) wrote:Sard R2-D2 is sweet! Thats gonna be a cool FC. It just needs to be a different color lol
No love for BMW's Laguna Seca Blue?
Sorry lol, I am just very partial to this color on FC's:
mmmmmm my dream car!
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Ignorance + Post = Waste of Post.
The rotary is plenty reliable under boost if you take care of it and tune it right.
From I was told at Mazda the rotory isn't reliable. Even the new engines are have the same sealing issues. he Apexi seals take too much of a beating by the peanut and the 13B was as maintence demanding as a Benz diesel. Truth be known, every automaker bought the rights to build rotaries. GM still has the rights to make over a miliion engines, but the engine worked better in theory then real life. Only Nissan and Madza built production versions and in the 1980's Nissan abandon the project. The Rotary is a oddity and collectors peice engine. In 2001 Mazda built a six rotor engine for F1, to date no team as bought any of them.
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My dad had one, those are fun little cars.
I have never heard "Rotary" and "is reliable" in the same sentence, referring to each other.
Anything that consume more oil than normal isn't as reliable, nor a better candidate for a daily driver than a I don't know, I feel like being cliche, so a honda civic.
Excellent power curve, and power potential, yes.
Reliable by modern standards, no.
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Option D is correct. Just about every major manufacturer bought the rights to the rotor motor at one point.
But at mazda they stumbled on what to make the apex seals out of.
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"Option D" thinks that apex seals are APEXi seals apparently, so that discounts anything he may have heard.
For the moron that thinks they 'consume' oil just because it's fun... It's a lubrication system, it's designed into it. The 'consumption' is normal for a rotary, just not what you're used to in the piston swinging things.
I think the reliability is pretty well driven home by the daily driven 200+K mile FCs out on the roads. It's just not an engine that can be beaten to death without the simple preventative maintenance measures that the average public doesn't like to submit their vehicles to.
Only thing I have to ask is how many of those FCs are on their first motor still.
And he is right about most companies having bought rights to the wankel power plant at some point or other.
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i have an all new appriciation for these cars after living with two of em. yours is damn good lookin (even the color! haha). sounds like a nice little list you've got goin there, should run pretty well.
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ZZP XP cam, 1.6 rockers, 105# springs, speedbuilt FWI, 3.3" modular pulley, TOG headers,
3" exhaust, flomatched injectors
'97 GTP 14.06@100.6mph pre cam w/ 3.5" pulley, I/E
Man people are racist Muthah @!#$ahs when it comes to rotaries. Man, let off, for being only about 3/5th as old as the reciprocating engine, id say its doing pretty damn well. If you take engines that were made in 1910, they were MUCH less reliabe than a 13B even under moderate boost! Check yourself before you Hate on something.
Drop a stock LS1 in, you will be happy. 11 flat on the RX7 fuel pump even.
Yeah, uhm its 2007 and they are having problems with the new ones still.
The wankel engine is gravy in theory, but so is space travel.
Its just not quite so good in real life.
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nice list man, plz post pics once its finished... my buddy used to have a older, i think 1st gen RX-7 not turbo and bone stock but that thing ran for ever.. im pretty sure it was an 80 or 81 and i rember before he crashed it, it had almost 300,000kms on it we used to beat that thing daily and it always ran good.. good luck with it man..
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RX7+DSM=rep for being unreliable because morons beat the snot out of them till they break then go "this cars a peice of @!#$, i dont understand why my tranny went out while doing neutral drops? Any car that cant handle that is unreliable"
Clean FCs are sexy.
I am partial to SBC swaps, but thats me.
Throw a rotary in there and boost the ever living piss out of it.
Riley Webb wrote:Man people are racist Muthah @!#$ahs when it comes to rotaries. Man, let off, for being only about 3/5th as old as the reciprocating engine, id say its doing pretty damn well. If you take engines that were made in 1910, they were MUCH less reliabe than a 13B even under moderate boost! Check yourself before you Hate on something.
Since when is Rotary a race?
Worst statement ive ever read on JBO.
But i say , go for it
. And im a ricer, so im partial to the FD's
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