Well SonicRat was nice enough to come down to help me with my rebuild (aka do everything ) He did some great port work with none of the right tools. After searching and driving and searching and driving and a little more driving the only thing we could come up with bit wise was some stones and sand paper rolls. If I wouldn't had bought the templates from racingbeat and had them overnighted ($115 bucks) I would have given up and just started the rebuild however after getting the stones and sand paper rolls he went to town. Here are a few pics of the ports, They look 100xS better in person as my camera was one of those 88 dollar target specials.

 

Well after that part was finnished we continued with the rebuild. Early on we knew we where doomed not to finnish it due to my dumbass over stretching one of the water seals Anyways everything went together smoothly after that and here are some pics of it mostly completed. More pics to come when finnished.

 

How did you get the outside of the housings to look so good?

 

its paint.

 

yep a little high heat enamel and clear coat.

 

looks great!

 

thanks funkspectrum! I think SonicRat did a damn good job on those ports. I can't wait to see how they flow Hopefully with one more coolant seal and asking a bunch of questions on the site I should have the rebuild done soon and in the car running.

 

Did you use RA coolant seals? If so you can try and shrinking it back down a bit with a hair dryer.

 

i wish sonicrat would come help me as im going to pull my engine this sat and start my first rebuild

 

Yeah, they'd of turned out a lot better if we had the proper tools, and that exhaust port wasn't finished yet when you stole it for that picture!

 

Thats hot.

 

WO WO , loookinggood

 

Thanks for the compliments guys! I'll defenatley try the hair dryer trick! Thanks for the idea! Yeah I got a bit ansy and got the pic before it was done because I was so excited

 

Haha, never been to Florida yet!

 

hey there is a first time for everything you should come by and help out of the kindness of your heart

 

yeah....i'm gonna build an engine later this year....sonicrat, wanna come to cali?

 

Depends on when, my fiance's got family there and one of her rotations might be over that way. (Though, it does seem like the next rotation will be in Louisiana, who knows!)

 

Hmmmm..... (brain-gears turning)

 

Good job helping out 'rat...added to your rep

 

I was wonderin why I suddenly had a 3rd green dot!

 

hey louisiana is like 2 1/2 hours from jacksonville

 

Haha, I've been in a lot of states working on rotaries! I'll have to see if i have any reason to go on over there, there's always Daytona beach!

 

It's a fungus.


-Ted

 

God damnit, the pills were supposed to get rid of that!