If you get exhaust condensation in a rotary you need to stop driving like a granny

 

Exhaust is finished , Went with subtle tailpipes that look a lot like stock.

 

lmao, that does look kind of stock! awesome

 

I wonder if those are the same tail lights the convertible uses in the states...

 

They're close, haha. But they have the reverse section split for rear fog lights

 

Damn someone got smarts!

 

Made a brace that supports the front part of the 4-rotor engine. 2 mounting points were added to the oilpan for the mounting rubbers to bolt on to. The weight of the engine is now evenly divided between the 5 engine mounts.

 

Thats so awesome. Im chomping at the bit to see this thing done

 

Tried figuring out how to fit the radiator and oil coolers. Couldn't find a way to fit everything nicely so I did this:

Holy crap, what have I done


Fitting the front panels and bumper to check if everything still fits ok, also took a lot of measurements so I could check if the front end of the car warped, it's still straight and everything still fits nicely, lot's of room now to do whatever I want


Cleaned some stuff up and made bumper mounts.


Next up is the radiator, already made all the needed parts, hopefully I can try to weld it together tomorrow. I hope it works out allright, since I don't have a lot of experience with welding aluminium.

 

I NEED updates lol

 

I bet this things still screams, even though that looks like a nice quiet exhast. Love the tips.

 

Looks awsome John!

 

This is my favorite build thread.

 

Makes me wanna go NA!

 

yeeeeeeaaaaaa

 

been checking this build just about every day for the past three months, i cant wait till this car is done. truely an amazing build. definately my ultimate rotary dream build

 

Thanks

Started assembling the radiator today.
I've only welded aluminium a handfull of times, and usually didn't do a great job at it, so I started with cutting out some testpieces and tried figuring out how to weld aluminium for a few hours. Didn't want to start on the radiator straight away, since an aluminium radiator core isn't cheap. Once I sortoff thought I knew what I was doing work on the radiator started.

Tacking up an endtank here



And the other one



Almost done



So I didn't get it completely done yet, still need to do the last endtank, clean stuff up a bit and pressure test it. So far it's going pretty well I think, welds look pretty decent , I've seen tidier ones but this will do just fine.

 

Looks good

 

Finished the radiator today




Also added a drainage plug




Tested the radiator for leaks, pressurised it with compressed air and used soapy water to find them.
People at home be carefull pressurising radiators like this, they can blow up if you put a lot of pressure on them. I used about 16 psi.




It was a good thing I checked for leaks, I found a few. Got them all fixed pretty easily though.

 

Awesome. Looking forward to seeing it installed.

 

It's better to pressure-test with some fluid inside. Only air could be a good explosion because air compresses more. If you have some water in i, and the fail is there, there will only be a little poof.

16Psi isn't much? You will have 14-15psi all the time later on?

 

Nice work man!

 

16psi should be about the max it should ever see and yeah liquid is safer but also can be more difficult to find leaks with if they are very small compared to air.

 

It's a lot easier to find leaks when using air, because it causes the soapy water to bubble. 16 psi is enough to find any leaks so why risk blowing up your radiator?

 

The rotors came back from balancing. At first they balanced the jig I made up to mount the rotors in the balancing machine. After that every rotor was checked, they were all pretty good, the worst one was 2,5 grams off, 50 grams being the tolerance limit. We could balance every rotor to perfection, but then the weight between the rotors wouldn't be equal anymore, and since we were so far within the tolerance limit we didn't modify the rotors. It would be possible to get them balanced and get the weight equal by machining the rotors with good balance on all three sides, but that would take a lot of expensive manhours for no noticable gains.

Next up is balancing the entire rotating assembly, I re-checked the weight of each rotor and every dummy weight and assembled the rotating assembly for balancing.