Clunkers is on track duty, reppin' the rotary like a mofo!
Hey dan , that woulb be awsome! We have two track cars and im at njmp every weekend. I race bikes. We just put a program together that has a bunch of track days for cars. All of the days are at njmp and there are about 18 of them. Its really good because there are only 15 cars on the track because its a new program and not too many people know about it yet. Check it out some time at tracktime4cars.com . Anyway i would love to come out with you guys just pm me your number
Like your new avatar too Rich 
Everyone is mixing it up for 2012... speaking of which, go check out the race section's 2012 thread. We are talking about trying to get a rotary/RX-7 track weekend together if you gents are interested.
Everyone is mixing it up for 2012... speaking of which, go check out the race section's 2012 thread. We are talking about trying to get a rotary/RX-7 track weekend together if you gents are interested.
Brent....Definitely interested! I was talking to the guys up here about doing something similar actually. That would probably be the event of the year for me 
Updates coming soon fellas....Engine is out of the car with steady hands goodfella behind the die grinder, porting like a mad man!
Updates coming soon fellas....Engine is out of the car with steady hands goodfella behind the die grinder, porting like a mad man!
Alright well I have taken Clunkers engine out for a refresh, but a refresh has turned into purchasing a new engine completely.
After Rich and I disassembled the engine up at IRP we discovered lots of carnage. The coolant seal had failed not due to overheating but what appeared to be an ignition problem, possibly from running those motorcycle plugs that everyone loves so much. Another thing we discovered was a crack had developed on the rotor housing, extending outward from the spark plug hole; essentially rendering the rotor housings garbage. The housings would have probably been trash anyway due to the excessive wear caused by the rotary aviation classic seals.
I had to change the oil in my engine roughly every 1000 miles due to the massive amounts of blow by, which I had assumed may have been caused by loose side seals, but that was not the case. The ports on the engine were just a little too big, causing the side seals to chip as they fell into then out of the port. The marks from the side seals can be seen at the top outer edge of each intake port. The irons were junk as well due to severe wear on the faces as seen in the pictures below. I also managed to break a corner seal, not sure when or how it happened but the car ran great up until the coolant seal let go completely.
All in all I'd say I got my moneys worth with this engine, It would have been nice if I could have just thrown new seals in and buttoned everything back up but we determined it would be cheaper and safer to start with a fresh engine. My bank account isn't happy with my decision but I'm sure Ray Crowe isn't complaining
So the order was placed for a brand new Mazda crate engine. I had the new engine shipped directly to IRP so Rich could work his porting magic. I should have some pictures of Rich's port work shortly. Who else would I trust to port and build my engine? We gotta represent the Rotary Addicts crew! Since NRS was running a sale on their fancy, well respected ceramic 1 piece apex seals I opened my wallet once again.
The plan this time is to have an engine that lasts MANY many many years while being beaten on..I wasn't easy on my last engine and won't be going soft on this one either. I hope to attending a good deal of track events and some good old road trips.
On a side note we are working on building a dedicated track car, it's a learning tool
PICTURE TIME!
Got the engine loaded into the trusty range rover for the road trip up to IRP.
At IRP, engine down to the bare block ready to commence disassembly!
This is what the flywheel looks like after about 60,000 miles.
WOOOOOOOOOO!! Goodfella makes train noses when using power tools
Front iron off
Note the wear pattern
Engine completely disassembled, on the work bench at IRP.
After Rich and I disassembled the engine up at IRP we discovered lots of carnage. The coolant seal had failed not due to overheating but what appeared to be an ignition problem, possibly from running those motorcycle plugs that everyone loves so much. Another thing we discovered was a crack had developed on the rotor housing, extending outward from the spark plug hole; essentially rendering the rotor housings garbage. The housings would have probably been trash anyway due to the excessive wear caused by the rotary aviation classic seals.
I had to change the oil in my engine roughly every 1000 miles due to the massive amounts of blow by, which I had assumed may have been caused by loose side seals, but that was not the case. The ports on the engine were just a little too big, causing the side seals to chip as they fell into then out of the port. The marks from the side seals can be seen at the top outer edge of each intake port. The irons were junk as well due to severe wear on the faces as seen in the pictures below. I also managed to break a corner seal, not sure when or how it happened but the car ran great up until the coolant seal let go completely.
All in all I'd say I got my moneys worth with this engine, It would have been nice if I could have just thrown new seals in and buttoned everything back up but we determined it would be cheaper and safer to start with a fresh engine. My bank account isn't happy with my decision but I'm sure Ray Crowe isn't complaining
So the order was placed for a brand new Mazda crate engine. I had the new engine shipped directly to IRP so Rich could work his porting magic. I should have some pictures of Rich's port work shortly. Who else would I trust to port and build my engine? We gotta represent the Rotary Addicts crew! Since NRS was running a sale on their fancy, well respected ceramic 1 piece apex seals I opened my wallet once again. The plan this time is to have an engine that lasts MANY many many years while being beaten on..I wasn't easy on my last engine and won't be going soft on this one either. I hope to attending a good deal of track events and some good old road trips.
On a side note we are working on building a dedicated track car, it's a learning tool
PICTURE TIME!
Got the engine loaded into the trusty range rover for the road trip up to IRP.
At IRP, engine down to the bare block ready to commence disassembly!
This is what the flywheel looks like after about 60,000 miles.
WOOOOOOOOOO!! Goodfella makes train noses when using power tools
Front iron off
Note the wear pattern
Engine completely disassembled, on the work bench at IRP.
Last edited by GoodfellaFD3S; Jan 20, 2012 at 03:30 PM. Reason: as per OP's request
Holy ****, I didn't know you were still around! haha am I crazy? I'll probably tune for around 17lbs on high boost...I don't see a need for anything over 500hp on our cars 
Get to it!! The season isn't too far away.
I'll have some pictures of the new ports soon. I haven't really had time to do any more work on the car, my other project has been modifying my house haha
-Dan
I'll have some pictures of the new ports soon. I haven't really had time to do any more work on the car, my other project has been modifying my house
haha-Dan
Alright here's some quick pictures of my IR Performance "Stage 3 +" ports. It's basically a large street port. I'll let Rich make any further comments on the porting should he feel the need haha. All I know is Rich spent an extremely large amount of time on porting this engine. Ihor took over and did the cooling mods and exhaust ports so I'd like to shoot a HUGE thank you out to the guys at IR Performance for doing such beautiful port work.
Anyone who actually knows me, knows I don't throw compliments out unless they're WELL deserved and even then I'm hesitant haha. But I'll let the pictures speak for themselves and stop blowing Rich (figuratively) But seriously, home boy's got some porting skills!
Now we're just waiting on the NRS seals to show up so we can clearance and bolt this thing back together!
My irions all ported and ready to go!
Front secondary port...so smooth and sexy!
Rear secondary port.
Secondary intake runner
Primary port in progress!
primary port back lit.
Thanks to little bubs (Ryan Farrel) for taking these pics since I wasn't able to attend the porting party.
Anyone who actually knows me, knows I don't throw compliments out unless they're WELL deserved and even then I'm hesitant haha. But I'll let the pictures speak for themselves and stop blowing Rich (figuratively)
But seriously, home boy's got some porting skills!Now we're just waiting on the NRS seals to show up so we can clearance and bolt this thing back together!
My irions all ported and ready to go!
Front secondary port...so smooth and sexy!
Rear secondary port.
Secondary intake runner
Primary port in progress!
primary port back lit.
Thanks to little bubs (Ryan Farrel) for taking these pics since I wasn't able to attend the porting party.
Alright here's some quick pictures of my IR Performance "Stage 3 +" ports. It's basically a large street port. I'll let Rich make any further comments on the porting should he feel the need haha. All I know is Rich spent an extremely large amount of time on porting this engine. Ihor took over and did the cooling mods and exhaust ports so I'd like to shoot a HUGE thank you out to the guys at IR Performance for doing such beautiful port work.
Anyone who actually knows me, knows I don't throw compliments out unless they're WELL deserved and even then I'm hesitant haha. But I'll let the pictures speak for themselves and stop blowing Rich (figuratively) But seriously, home boy's got some porting skills!
Now we're just waiting on the NRS seals to show up so we can clearance and bolt this thing back together!
Thanks to little bubs (Ryan Farrel) for taking these pics since I wasn't able to attend the porting party.
Anyone who actually knows me, knows I don't throw compliments out unless they're WELL deserved and even then I'm hesitant haha. But I'll let the pictures speak for themselves and stop blowing Rich (figuratively)
But seriously, home boy's got some porting skills!Now we're just waiting on the NRS seals to show up so we can clearance and bolt this thing back together!
Thanks to little bubs (Ryan Farrel) for taking these pics since I wasn't able to attend the porting party.
Last edited by GoodfellaFD3S; Jan 31, 2012 at 05:25 PM.
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You can see how destroyed Dan's rotor housings were..... combination of the RA classic seals and track abuse, along with inadequate spark plug choice.
Also a few snaps of the old intermediate iron compared to the new one. The sharp-eyed will spy the failure of the coolant o-ring, which was the catalyst for this tear-down. It's located in the spark plug area, and we believe this isn't a coincidence
Also a few snaps of the old intermediate iron compared to the new one. The sharp-eyed will spy the failure of the coolant o-ring, which was the catalyst for this tear-down. It's located in the spark plug area, and we believe this isn't a coincidence
Last edited by GoodfellaFD3S; Feb 3, 2012 at 06:30 PM.
I should have more updates soon, but the Turbo manifold had a few leaks from broken welds. Fortunately good ol' Matt (Thanks sugar!) was able to fix the leaks and add some bracing to possibly prevent it from happening again. Ideally I would get a new manifold and or re-route the wastegates on my current setup, but budget constraints are preventing me from really doing that haha.
So instead of re-wrapping the manifold I had it sent off to swaintech for ceramic coating. I was also going to send the exhaust housing for turbo but it was practically welded to the CHRA and I was unable to remove it. So here's what came in the mail a few weeks ago.
The engine is currently sitting on my shop floor waiting for me to put the accessories back on and drop it in. Here'a a little pic of it going back together with them fancy NRS ceramic seals.
So instead of re-wrapping the manifold I had it sent off to swaintech for ceramic coating. I was also going to send the exhaust housing for turbo but it was practically welded to the CHRA and I was unable to remove it. So here's what came in the mail a few weeks ago.
The engine is currently sitting on my shop floor waiting for me to put the accessories back on and drop it in. Here'a a little pic of it going back together with them fancy NRS ceramic seals.
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I'm going to get my manifolds and turbine housing swainteched. Does the white finish seem to mark up easily? I was just worried that you had to be super clean all the time or it'd look like ****.
It seems pretty hard and durable. I'm not sure if you put greasy hands will stain the coating permanently.
Rich also sent my dump tubes for coating haha, so I'd be willing to sacrifice the finish on one of the tubes to see how durable/stain resistant it is. Next time I'm working at the garage I'll do a little testing with pics
Rich also sent my dump tubes for coating haha, so I'd be willing to sacrifice the finish on one of the tubes to see how durable/stain resistant it is. Next time I'm working at the garage I'll do a little testing with pics
Yea that'd be awesome. I know alot of people end up just painting them with the higher temp VHT paint to make touch ups possible. But I really like the light gray look if it wouldn't be too much upkeep.