Ok a little update ! I blew my motor on the way back from the roto rally .. Ironic it happened just cruising on the highway .. seems like a spun bearing as the motor still starts and has 17 inches of vacume . But its making a very nasty noise .

Same thing happened to my motor in January. Brought it to Pettit now all is good.

glad they got that fixed , i'm currently saving up for the new motor . I'm going to go with a reman vs rebuild this one . incase it has some internal damage . and that way I can start to build this one slowly get it ported and have a monster motor for next time.

Hey my friend! I know we've chatted back in forth between PMs but I never saw your build thread! Great work! Way to stick with it and bring her back!

Did you take the blown motor out yet and look inside?

Thanks gringo LOL , Yeahh.. the car is alot of fun when it works .

Deliverance not yet started the tear down today finally had room to work on it

But unfortunately I think My ecu may be fried...

when I put the ignition in no lights or anything came on figured battery was dead , let it charge for about 4 hours then tried the ignition again , car cranks , lights turn on , but none of hte instruments or the Power FC commander turn on ..

I just went to get the battery replaced since it was under warranty and I'm gonna try it tomorrow . But damn I'm starting to believe this FD is cursed... Wangan midnight anyone?

Like you say, the flat black FD is trending but you have to admit - they look like jet fighters when they're done! I love the way a flat black FD looks in person, I've seen a 500whp dyno'd beast of an FD in that color and it looked amazing.

Good luck on the build man, cool to see! :bigthumb:

A little update . I think I'll have some updates thsi weekend . But well motor is out of the car ,and taken apart . it wasnt pretty in there. I should have pictures later today .

looks like It will get rebuilt . started ordering parts from all over . I've got all of 97 cents to my name currently HAH!

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engine Pulled, started taking things apart .


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stationary gear. gone both look like this front and rear done .

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Rotor Gear Gone as well .. Both like this

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Quite a bit of carbon on the rotors as well I only had the engine for a year..

1 of the housings had some chatter Attachment 665676

and a spark plug crack

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the oil pump was completely Gone forgot ot take pictures of it , and the Eshaft was bad to from where the bearing originally spun

P.S. I never ran this car low on oil .. it had low Oil pressure form the first day I put it in the car. I figured it was a bad oil pressure sensor. but I guess someone did run the car low on oil beforehand , and that messed up the oilpump which in turn caused this ...

catastrophic damage could of been avoided had I rebuilt the engine back then ..

But now We start the build up.

I got this Lightweight flywheel for a great deal .. it needs ot have the friction plate replaced . but for the price it was hard to pass on


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I have a thing against sidegrading , when ever I can I try to upgrade . since hte flywheel is out why not!! ,

sick car

So what did you determine was the cause? Bad oil pump? Clogged pickup?

Bad oil pump 99% chance . I never ran the car low on oil ,and the car wasn't low on oil when it blew in fact I had just filled it up with some oil

Slow week couldnt work on the car at all . rain and other errands but hopefully tomorrow , or wed I'll have a small updates on new parts!

OK so scratch that flywheel .. Got a racing beat one ..

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I hear that brother....It rains every single day!!! My tires are bald as fuh! and the rain doesnt help :(

Bull crap. It hasn't rained all week :P

Its raining right now...rained last night and possibly will continue later lol.

Atleast you hopped right back in the saddle. Glad to see your still doing your thing.

damn I dont even remember how long its been ,

WELL updates I finally Completed my rotating assembly and sent it off to get balanced .

exedy HP pressure plate , ACT unsprung 4 puck cltuch , Racing beat light weight flywheel , stock rotors , and E shaft .

everything is ready

Also ordered some Housings from a forum member they come with racing beat exhaust ports .

Just waiting for them to arrive haha . after that all thats left is the... apex seals / gasket set.

Thanks , and no reason not to .. I never found the engine to be lacking in anything .

and it blew not because it was a rotary . But because of combined negligence between the previous owner for running it low on oil , and myself for not rebuilding before it turned into this mess

This is 110% correct, a lot of heads love to blame the rotary. Weather it's a piston or rotary a half ass engine,will fail it's just a matter of time!

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hah its been raining on and off down here .

But I don't have much time to work on the car during weekdays

BUT asoon as I get the parts I'll start doing alot more work on it .

^oooh special visit from engine builder.

but like you said . People like to blame everything just because its a rotary but low oil pressure would destroy any engine weather it be V8 or not LOL . specially getting rev'd to 8k and raced every chance it got .

and my goal when all said and done is to take down a V8 or two..