If a 12a can be fitted with a turbo, why not a 13b? Besides, I thought a carburated engine could not run a turbo?

 

Search. Its been done. However, with any turbo engine, a fuel injected setup is preferable. You can carb a 13b and turbo it though. If you were going to go that route though, why not just buy a 13b TII engine? Its already turbo, and its fuel injected. Built to run boost and all that jazz.

And you can run a turbo with a carb. You just have to boost prep the carb, buy a carb hat to support boost, etc. etc.

 

check out Rotaryshack.com

 

check the search function. althuogh, im not going to deny advertisements for rob.

 

I ws looking at rotary shack, all you need to boost prep the carb is that carb cap they sell?

 

Hardly. You'd have to send your carb out to someone to get it boost prepped. I have no idea what it takes to get it prepped for boost. The carb hat is just so your boost stays boost and doesn't lose pressure before going into the engine.

 

I think everytime someone brings up a turbo rotary with carb, Rob's name should pop up. If not his name, then the name of his company. Its a good thing it already popped up so I didn't have to say "Check out rotaryshack.com".

Rob will boost prep your carb as well. If you want to do a turbo setup with a carb'd rotary you can probably e-mail him questions through rotaryshack.com, or there is also a section in the venders section for rotaryshack.

 

13Bs come stock with turbos, there are 12a turbos pictured on here all the time.

Use the search button, your bugging the world.

 

We turboed a 13B 4 port in 76 using a Weber set-up with mega ports, and installed the engine in a RX-3 rally car. The result was frightening, handling was worse than my turboed Mini Cooper 1500. It produced over 400hp at around 20psi. The power band started at 5,000rpm. After a short but hard life the transmission blew-up; fortunately without fatal results, but causing a near heart attack.

 

Hope this loads but yeah it can be done. Thast what I'm running now(13B 4port). Theres a couple guys on this board running this similar set up. If youre serious of doing this I suggest you contact Rotaryshack to do it right. That man knows his ****!

Thanks, Ed