There is room in the car for one, no doubt, but the expense of one is prohibitive unless you got money to burn and you just REALLY like large displacement rotaries.

It would be a lot of custom work done for you by machine shops, and then of course youd have to find a way to mount a transmission to it that can handle the power, get the rest of the chassis able to handle the power... oh, and mount it to the subframe somehow.

If you want a cost effective bump in displacement you could do a litany of domestic v8s with bolt in kits, you could do the 3800 v6 (the grand nationals drivetrain) turbo, or if you wanted to be different the SC 3800 from grand ams - theyve made tons of power with the boost turned up.

Also, because of me grant is almost done making mounts to swap in the ford 2.3T if you want torque but still want a small turbo engine.

Regardless, what you need to ask yourself is what you really want in terms of performance, what youre willing to spend, and figure out how to get there. Focusing on a particular powerplant thats basically a "DIY" affair and a LOT of money is a good way to go nowhere fast.

 

ok, sorry in my last post of being an *** ok so the ecsentric(sp) shaft is that hardest part. does the 26 be use 13b houseing or 12a? and about the intake mani you could just go carb and probably save yourself alot of heartache.the timeing must also be a pita. but i still see it being easier than everyone says it is. am i worng about anything in this comment

 

Just by reading this post makes me think that you should stop thinking about doing this, and stick with what you have.

 

ok cool i guess im done then

 

For the record, i'm pretty sure caddillac made a V16 prototype engine. Thats 8 cylendars in a row! I've read articles disputing the crankshaft flexing and twisting, but apparently caddillac made it work. Anything is possible, just the materials or manufacturing processes may require lots of $$$

 

Soooooo the boy can't ask? He MUST do the project if he asks about it? hmmmmmmm

 

He can ask all he wants, but unless he's shopping on Rodeo, he can expect to get some **** for it.

 

as far as manifolds go, i bet it wouldn't be too hard to modify two 13b manifolds to fit, so that wouldn't be too much of an issue. Timing wouldn't be that difficult either, you basically just double up on coils.

I see the hard part being the actual fitment in a vehicle, and maybe some other various parts such as oil pans and motor mounts

 

firewalls can always be moved back and such, i'm sure fitment wouldn't be a huge deal. As far as intake mani...you could have a sheetmetal one made for a very reasonable price. You could run ITB's on it, that woul dbe cool, and easier to control i think with a standalone. It's far from a simple project...but i'm sure it could be done for less than 40k bucks. A tubular exhaust mani could be fabbed up in a weekend pretty easily. But, to do a project like this, you're gonna have to be pretty experienced and comfortable fabbing things for yourself. It would cost tons to have shops do it, because it's gonna take a lot of trial and error making things fit, i'm sure. It's a different idea though, and i think that is always cool.

 

I dont think it would be quite that simple, if you got in to the project i think you would find a ton of headaches, if the hardest part was worrying about mounting the engine and making the manifolds i think there would be alot more 4 rotors out there, after saying that there is a guy in NZ with a twin turbo 4 rotor mazda 3 that runs 9sec 1/4s.