Awesome, i now have a better understaind of the rebuild process. Bravo Aaron, and thanks.

 

Ditto. Thanks a lot...later

 

So when is the dyno date ?

 

Those slippers are perfectly good...It's hard to keep them in good condition when you're always working in the basement though...They get torn up quickly. It's uneconomical to continually buy a new pair...

As for lining them up...Sure...But you know you'll be walked.

Assembling the engine is fairly easy. It's about a 2 hour process (or at least, that one was). It's all the cleaning that's hard.

The housings were given a quick polish, then cleaned and painted with Dupont Metalcast red. It's supposed to give chrome an anodized look. It works well if you lay down one thin coat, but I normally do 4 or 5 coats for a candy effect. Amazing in the sun.

The block is all 6 port NA with the high compression rotors. Once you've gone high compression turbo, you never go back. "Turbo lag" is not in my vocabulary.

I'm not worried about it. I'm used to taking the abuse (you should have seen what people said about me 3 years ago when I first did the turbo-NA thing).

About 2.5 hours. Add another hour for the rotors.

Because here's a picture of my garage:



The engine block only weighs about 175LB, so it won't be hard to get up the stairs.

Sometime in summer of 2005.

 

Did you do anything special to the N/A motor to make it more turbo friendly?

 

Nope.

 

it is sorta like watching Bob Vila on "This old House", I love it thanks for the pictures and write up

 

I thought I needed a haircut bad, lets start a "buy aaron cake a haircut fund" ill throw in my 2 cents

 

this was an awesome post aaron. its giving me more confidence to rebuild my own engine. my engine is starting to fart oil smokes now. i like that red you used.

 

Thanks for the detailed instructions there bud. Im starting my first rebuild on a 13b in a few weeks and plan to use your instuctions allong with a few other books to rebuild the engine

 

I really didn't intend this to be an engine build tutorial. However, I have also never seen anyone post a blow-by-blow assembly before. If you're going to do this, I would recommend getting the video. It covers everything, including the lengthy cleaning and measuring process.

 

Aaron you're the man...great pics and descriptions. And killer mullet too.

-Joe

 

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Lost For Words Great Job....

 

A mullet is fairly short and only long at the back. Aaron clearly doesn't have a mullet.

 

dude its a mullet.

business in the front, party in the back.

 

I would like to challenge the claim that this is not a mullet. I present the following evidence:



As you can see, this hairstyle follows the classic description of a mullet...business in the front, pleasure in the back, as our friend Jacobcartmill has presented. I rest my case.

-Joe

 

I want an engine stand now...

Rebuilding a rotary really isn't that bad. I managed to do it with some help from a mechanic friend. Don't expect it to go quite that smoothly though - I think it took us 6+ hours to get things together. Part of this was taking Rotary Aviation's suggestion that the superglue on the apex seal corner pieces wasn't really needed. They kept popping out. Very frustrating.

But, other than that, it was pretty much as described.

-=Russ=-

 

LOL

 

nice job.. looking forward to the other pics!!

 

Wow, some of you people needs lives. For the record, I would love to grow my bangs much longer...but they simply refuse to grow!

 

grow the mullet aaron cake... its your desssssstiny.


"cut that rat's nest off yo skull"

"get out the hair-clippers jerk!"

 

Lol...I think its cool man...you look like the mad Rotary scientist.

-Joe

 

Why isn't this thread in the archive? Seriously. Don't be vain, Aaron, I know you send other good threads to the archive; send this one. I've been looking for a thread exactly like this since I started seriously considering doing my own rebuild; I would've found it sooner had it been there.

I know it's a bit of a dinosaur, but consider this a free bump to the top--it might help someone see it that didn't know about it.

Thanks for the thread.

 

It is in the archives. I moved a copy there months ago because it's a good step-by-step engine build thread.