I been wondering how many of you guys drift and how often you trash your engines, i been thinking about using a rotary power plant to drift, TII engines over here are around 45,000 yens (400 dollars) but i'm kind of scare from previews experience on the states in autocross, I love the 7 but not shure if it will take the stress. is either an RX-7 or 180sx

 

The rotarie would be Exceptionally great, as it can take long beaten at high rpms, the only thing is if you pick up trash engines they wont last at all, and youll go through them quite often.

If you rebuild a motor to the specs you want with a stock turbo and a frount mount intercooler at stock boost ( say 8psi ) . you will have an awesome dependable car.

But if you go by using used engines , etc. Stay away from the rotarie.

 

from personal experience, no problems with engine AS LONG u keep it COOL, which is much harder in drifting than in road racing etc..

FMIC is not good idea, properly ducted V-mount will do the trick better, and don`t forget better than stock oil cooling (2 stock oil coolers works)

 

I have trashed 3 now, but I have toned down my Drifting activities. Too much damage to the car...

 

i drifted in my n/a and boom

 

Blew up my bone stock NA @ 170k. Built a streetport, upgraded some stuff and it was just fine for an entire season of HARD beatings, track and lapping events, exhibitions, practicing in parking lots, etc.

 

If you build your motor right and most importantly have it TUNED RIGHT, then you should be fine. Rotaries aren't as unreliable as everyone makes them out to be. It's just that 80% of people out there aren't willing to pay a pro to tune their car. They figure they can tune it themselves and that's when they start blowing engines. Just my .02 And I do drift my TII with no ill effects. Not to the motor anyway.

Zach

 

ya, as long as you keep it cool, there should be no problems.. i agree with most of the above posts..

i went out sliding 3 nights ago... given it was night time, the motor stayed nice and cool (190-200 ferenheit)

 

but thats because he was learning....lol.......i blew my turbo but then again it was a piece of **** anywayz

 

Dont starve the fuel pickup in the gas tank unless youre running a surge tank in any high G activity... which means you gotta keep it over a third of a tank or get baffles or a surge tank set up :P

A big *** radiator, oil coolers, fans for all of them, etc would do you pretty good, but part of the deal with rotaries is youre gonna blow **** up unless you spend time and have the experience to cross your t's and dot your i's when building.

 

well now that you mention the gas starvation deal, i recall having almost no gas in the tank and sending a friend of mine to buy some before my turn so i ran anyways and during the event there was a 360* around a cone and i remember just traying to clear it gymkhana style and next turn..... ka fU)(!n bum it just stop. then ended up buying a 240 and an SR20 i guess that just was a traumatic experience. i'm currently driving car powered by a hayabusa engien, the suzuki cappuccino and my back is killing me so i guess i'll start looking for an RX-7 again, thank got every single fc is turbo here.

 

dont forget to put baffles in your oil tank.

 

We have no problem keeping our 20B NA FC engine in one piece.
Keeping the body in nice shape is another problem...


-Ted

 

I build rotaries for aircraft use they see CONSTANT 75% or higher loading for 99.95% of thier life and when tunned properly they run almost forever without error. As has been mentioned, do it right the firest time, spend the money NOW and you won't end up spending 3x as much down the road..

 

I think that the fact that rotories have a realitively flat torque curve makes them easier to control, that and the balance/light wieght of the car

 

Precisely the reason I slowed down on my drifting.

 

Then you guys are probably hitting the wrong things. Keep it to the soft orange cones.

Hmm.. this will be my 3rd motor. First one reman lasted ~65k miles or so. Stock motor and turbo, just intake and exhaust, and fuel upgrades. The second reman only lasted ~35k miles. streetport, T3/T4 turbo, fuel upgrades, and track/drift sessions every weekend for 2 years.

On my third. Going 13B-RE.

- Ken

 

Dude, we don't drift on a parking lot.
We drift on a REAL track.


-Ted

 

we drift where ever there is a curve!!!

 

Are you part of drift session???

 

We're working on the car right now, and we haven't gone to any 2005 events.
The car is very close to getting a major revision soon.
Hopefully, the car will be built by the start of the 2006 season.


-Ted