You wanna know what's MY biggest problem with streetport and why I'll probably NEVER do it???

IT SOUNDS LIKE ****!

ported rotaries sounds so disgusting it'll make you wanna
There's absolutely no comparison between a ported rotary and a nice high reving piston engine like a ferrari

I'm not saying that all rotaries sound like **** (the 787B under acceleration has the most incredible sound I've heard come from a motor!) but it just seems that when people do their custom ports on this engine it turns out sounding like ****...perhaps it would be different if the engine was designed from the ground up to flow more air...

 

I'll find out soon enough when I get my KDR ported motor installed this weekend at Rx7 Store...

 

Ported motors with non-seq or single turbo and MP sounds like ****. Ported motor with sequential turbos and hi-flo cat sounds beautiful

 

the midpipe contributes a lot to the shitty raspy sound but even if you have a cat you probably still get the overlap...anyone have a sound/video clip of a ported motor with a cat?

 

It's probably been said before, but I'm not into street porting just because of the replacement issues. You have to put 1950 into a reman REW then have it disassembled ported for another 1500+ The way I figure I'm just going to go with all the bolt ons I can possibly have. Ie Single T, Intercooler, ignition, full exhaust, computer, intake and get the best numbers that I can possibly cna get out of a Stock port. That way when it blows up in 70K miles I'm just out 2K vs. 4K. Just my opinion though. I look at the motors as disposable fun too, so it's all on your perspective.