Finished blocking off my OMP



LIM and injectors all in place



New helmet for racecaring

 

Shady FPR mount





Fuel pump things!



Walbro 255 from before


Aeromotive 340


Turbo parts




Restrictwhore




Return line stuffs

 

Meth nozzle





Choppin'





Injector plugs and resistors




The car ran! Video coming soon.

Finally washed off the inch layer of dust

 

Test fit new cover, sexxxy.


150KMs on my setup, lots more before boost comes in. This is the most current engine bay picture.

 

First start and drive!

RX7 First Start and Drive - GT4088R, Megasquirt, Meth - YouTube

 

love this car, most intense dorito i have seen yet! please help me build mine lol

 

awesome work! looks and sounds like a rotary should. can't wait to see what happens when you're able to start pushing it.

i'm curious though, what issues were you having with the ACT clutch?

 

Thanks Todd! I'm here to help.


Thanks a lot man, I'm looking forward to it too!

The clutch was an ACT sprung 6 puck that I bought used from someone locally. They had some kind of problem with the flywheel they used with it, so they slid shims under the pressure plate to correct it. It ended up wearing the one side of the disk substantially, and was weird in my car. At the time, I just needed a clutch stronger than stock and it was very cheap.

They are great clutches though! I've run them in other cars with great results.

 

Glease smells

 

Well look who it is!

 

Haven't Updated in a while.

Got my resistor pack together to run my injectors, at this point I was ready to tune for some power.











Awesome view from an apartment



After making a decent power for a bit, I ended up cracking the front housing of the engine. Blew every drop of oil out really fast at the top of 4th gear just near my house. Shut it down in time, unfortunatly had to yank the engine again though.

Oil everywhere. It sprayed under the car and up the back from the speed. Thank goodness didn't start a fire.

 

Oh hello!



Thanks to xBot, we towed the car with his trailer to his house and power washed it there.









xbotted the car back home, started on getting the engine out. Really fast job now!

 

Manifold is holding up really well, glad I got the chance to inspect it all.











Now just waiting for parts to get here, and getting the new front iron ported. Should be back together real soon.

 

Some pulls

 

its amazing to see all the pictures of this cars life.. let alone seeing the car in person ha bad ***
awesome Glease

 

I really like your work. How many lbs of boost were you pushing in that video with your front mount?

 

no update glease?

 

Thanks a lot! I was running 14lbs.

 

Well, I should probably finish documenting all of this. When I last updated, I had cracked the front iron and pulled the engine out / apart.

Got another front iron ported from Schlodes and gaskets in.





Inspected eccentric shaft for damage



Washed and ready for assembly












Spent a long time polishing things that got ruined with the oil spraying everywhere.

 

Got the car running that weekend, made gobs of power. Broke another front iron a few days after. Same conditions, conservative timing, loads of fuel, and meth. Found it was having an ignition problem at high rpm from spark plug wires touching each other. "Cross Fire"
So, John (xbot) and Steve were there to tow my junk home, again.



Engine back out



This shows how identical the break was



Sharpie still



SOOOO, I bought new wires, and tried it one more time.



Building it again.











Running again, right before a car meet



THEN found out the rear iron also broke the last time, and I didn't know it. I shut the car off so fast when it blew up last to keep the oil in the pan that there was no sign. I also didn't inspect the other plates very closely as the damage to the front was pretty apparent. So, I had freshly rebuild engine that was still blown up. Didn't even leave the shop.

 

So, after all the smoke settled, and I thought about it, I decided enough with rotary. I pulled out everything rotary and sold it all.

Pulling the engine out for the final time. This time with the trans





Washed it, and put it under a cover.





So now i'm building a 4.8L LS Turbo engine to put in. I really hate to just leave all this work on the rotary like that, but I just feel like i'll never be able to make reliable power with it. The LS will do that really well.

I know i'll take lots of grief for it, but I really did give this an honest try, and put lots of time effort and money into it. Hope this build can encourage other people though!

 

Apologies if I missed this, but why did you never pin your motor? A 5-pin would've been perfect for your setup.

 

That would have been the next step for me, but these engines weren't dying from twisting. It was from cross firing. I would have otherwise been right at the limit for a non dowel engine.

 

Normally I hate seeing people ditch the rotary but with the luck you had with that motor I can't say I blame you. Real nice build thread though, I'm impressed with the fab skills.

 

Thanks so much for reading though this, really appreciate it! The car has made a bit of progress, should see the road by fall. Still going to build myself another rotary!