Gday, my name is Paul, and i run an online parts/race car fabrication business in Australia! (mainly centred around my love of the rotary engine).

Been around rotaries for about 13 years now, with focus mainly on drag racing, but went for a few laps in a mates circuit car and the bug bit, so here we are!

Got this back in december 2008. Was a fairly incomplete JDM import, but with some good aspects to it

Specs of it were :

weathered paint (cant tell if its pink or red sometimes!)
fresh engine, secondary bridgeport, SCR apex seals
endless alloy radiator
cusco 2 way diff
volk 16" rims
bilstein shocks, tein coils



inside



and that was about it and how it arrived late Dec 2008.

Slowly whilst building other cars, ive pieced this together to be the car it is today.

mess & test fitting the billet fuel rail kits we make


welded & wraped intake pipes


drilled and tapped water housing to take M16x1.5 adapter for the mechanical water temp gauge.




although i never had a power figure on the car in this guise, i know it was probably only around 160rwkw max, but these tyres made driving unreal!


nice new sticker, gotta promote the business!


getting closer! to stage 1 build just to get it out on track





fabricated heavy duty i/cooler lower mount made from RHS steel, the radiator also sits on this mount.






Some other stuff done just to get the car to the track circa late 2009 so i could have some fun were :

Rear spare wheel tub cut out and plate welded over.
Fuel tank replaced by 16gal plastic fuel cell (stock fuel tank was ruined, was just easier to do this)
Surge tank, Bosch 044 Pump, Carter Lift Pump
Aeromotive pressure regulator
Custom Billet Fuel rails
2.5" intercooler pipes (heat wraped)
3" dump pipe, into 3.5" straight through muffler (heat wraped)
600x300x100 intercooler
Twin Oil coolers (factory, jdm)
Alloy battery tray
Microtech LT10S / X4 ignitor Box / 4x bosch coils
Stewart warner oil press/temp & water temp guages which sit in fibreglass custom made centre console holder
Stewart warner boost gauge
NGK AFX wideband meter with display
PFE anodised fittings and braided lines
225/50-16" RE55S Potenza's
RDA rotors
Fire extinguiser
5 point harness
Battery isolator switch mounted in cabin
Bilstein Shocks / Tein Springs
AST deletion & filler neck modified for 26lb radiator cap
Stock S5 RX7 turbo on it at the moment to get setup right

 

the car came with a brand new engine, and came from over in Western Australia. ol' mate who runs workshop over there picked it up and sent it over. I stripped the engine down (even though it was brand new) just to check it out. The secondary bridgeport was the size of a tic tac. actually, a tic tac wouldnt have even fit through it. Put SCR seals in it and re-assembled, didnt care, just wanted to go racing.

deleted the ABS off the car (as half the sensors and **** were missing, so it was for the bin!)

everything else is just cosmetic now. will repair and paint the front lip to black first point of call.





was starting to look ok in the right lighting

 

had to fit new steering rack, new tie rod ends etc.

and the best part i think id bolted to it. xtreme rotary billet short shifter. strongly recommend one of these to anyone who has an FD!



flush mount bonnet latches also fitted.

 

went to first track day at winton in May 2010 and had issues with E85 reacting with **** earls fuel filter and a bit of an rfi non resistor spark plug hissy fit, so just called it a day. actually i called the car a K*NT and went home.

did this next

not just so i can remove steering wheel, but moreso to move the wheel further towards me so i can get my legs in the bloody thing to drive it!

 

re-did all the engine bay brake hoses in teflon braided w/ stainless fittings




replaced **** earls fuel filter with proflow -10AN stainless steel element one, and replaced plugs with BR10EG and went back to the track.

went back out to circuit in November of 2010.
Putted around in a 1.44.0. Was stinking hot, car was over heating to the max and so was the driver. Did about 20 laps for the day and went home. Car survived no problems, and engine survived being thrashed in excess of 110 deg water temp for a few laps too (i wanted it to feel my pain).

Had the af/r meter on the dash, and did a bit of tuning on the fly whilst cutting some laps and monitoring everything else, so busy behind the wheel!

 

welded new expansion tank with high high pressure cap as well, and welded in bung to mount water temp sensor to trigger IDIOT light at 105 deg C

and welded the bung into the top radiator tank for the sendor. sendor actually will go off to a warning light and complete the circuit when water temp goes above 115 deg C.

 

went back to the track again and ran new PB of 1:42.8, but more happy that the car was pretty much faultless through 4 sessions.

Had race chrono on, and it said theoretical best lap time would have been 1:42.1, so that is good if the driver wasnt such a retard!

Stock s4 turbo had called it a day, with excessive shaft play, smoke at idle was embarrassing so put it away for then. Was now getting a bit bored of the massive lack of power down the straights and the chocking stock s4 turbo on an e85 sec bridgeport engine so time for upgrades!

 

built a new house, changed jobs, built a blardy website for the business Mr Parts online performance supershop and fast forward to NOW a good 18 months later after the last race and the car has undergone a few changes.

proper bridgeport job now done. fixed up the non squared edges on the extend port from the place that originally built the motor for the first owner that does nothing except catch the side seals and put nice marks on plates.

Borg Warner S366 turbo w/ 0.91 rear
tial 44mm gate
4bbl intake manifold, modifed with our billet injector rails
4x1600cc injectors
1000cfm 4bbl throttle body
New radiator
davies craig WP115 pump
moved alternator mounting point
moved p/steering lower

Dual 044's, teflon lines through out.

re-wired the whole car and filled 4 HUGE black glad bags with unrequired wire.



Hopefully with the e85 and 4x1600's it will make a safe 350+rwkw

bit of a step up from the ol' 160rwkw (estimated) last time it was out lol





Car will be used for both circuit and drag racing.

 

some new boots for when i do hit the strip



champion beadlocks. also have the fronts to match.

 

main hoop and cross is now mostly complete, as are the front stays. Next stage is roof cross bar, rear stays & cross and start boxing up the supports and get it in the car!




no customer cars at the moment for the first time since moving in almost 18 months ago, so time to make shelving and return some respectability to the garage!!

also meant a bit of time on the ol' beast.







modified power steering location, modified alternator location, finished intercooler pipes, cooler and radiator mounted, fan mounted, davies craig pump mounted, turbo and wastegate done, intake manifold modified for injectors, clearanced bonnet. cbf looking at it anymore! might go back to work on the cage i think.

made bracket to top mount surge tank. Not finished yet, but almost done. twin 044's twin -8AN check valves, into a Y piece via single -10AN teflon feed line, feed into twin rails and 4x1600's, then a -8AN teflon return.
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vac hoses and engine bay fuel system done too now. edging closer!

less 37+ degree days and i'll get stuck back into the cage again.

 

yet another part of the car 90% done. cage is dropped, and being welded up.

that means re-wire is 90% done
fuel system is 90% done
roll cage is 90% done
and misc fabrication is 90% done

unsure where i have left motivation to complete any of these but

 

rear stays are in now, as are side intrusion bars (not pictured)



have racing date of June 2nd locked in, so need to get a move on!

Fabricated 3.5" dump pipe. ex manifold, turbo and dump pipe all mounted. inlet manfiold, injectors and rails and throttle body also mounted.
next step is to finish custom mount for the alternator and modify the mount for the p/s pump and that is pretty much it for fabrication.

couple of more braided hoses to assemble, then its off to the dyno!


Anyone circuit race a two rotor with a b/w s366 with the 0.91 rear?? what is reponse like on these turbos Vs say a T04Z or a GT3582R?

 

That cage looks really (really) short.

Aren't you worried about smashing your skull / breaking yourneck in case you actually have to test the cage?

 

It is dropped to weld the top parts of the bars.