befarrer

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Hi, my name is Ben, I am from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I am in the finishing stages of replacing the motor in my 93 B2200 with a S4 NA motor. It is running now, just putting interior back together, etc...

I learned alot about the motor while doing the swap, but other than driving 10ft into my garage from the driveway, I have yet to drive a rotary powered vehicle.

I have tried to keep everything simple, I purchased a complete running 1986 GSL car with a rusted out body, and I am running the stock ECU, I performed a complete emissions removal, using a 91 RX7 transmission with the truck tail section, the engine is internally stock, but I plan on installing a street ported motor with a standalone, then eventually upgrade to a turbo'd version. Once I have the truck together I will post some pics. I did not take many pictures of the swap, but I did a complete frame off build.

WJM ROTARIES

Welcome to club .Looking forward to some photo's

StupidDeep

Welcome, just joined but I myself am from Edmonton

befarrer

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Yay, I moved the truck out of the garage under its own power today, first time since November first. Has a bit of dust on it though. The rest of the truck is basically stock. I have 3" lowering blocks in the back, and I re-indexed the front torsion bars to lower it.

I will be adding an electric fan, just have the stock one hanging out in the open for now lol. Also have to hook up my charcoal canister.

RX200013B

Can we get a pic of your exhaust set-up? i dont have any pics right now, but I have a 86 b2000 with a rotary swap as well.

Redline-RX3

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Sweet ....finally a rotary B2200 . I've had a few of these and lots of rotaries but have yet to do a swap. The last one I had (this year )was an ext cab , lowered like yours with a weber carb and header and exhaust. Great truck... welcome to the club.

Mysta Joe

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Nice. I'm in Edmonton visiting family at least once a year. This must be a fun truck.

befarrer

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I have a Pacesetter header, figured if it needs modding, it would be easier than the cast log.

It only needed 1 modification to fit, I had to make the outlet come straight out, instead of turn to the inside, as you can see in the pictures, it cleared all humps in the corssmembers, I was quite suprized, buit it will involve lifting the motor to remove the header, it is very tight to the frame:





To straighten it, I gave the pipe to my friend, who is a welder by trade, and asked what he thought, what he did was cut the pipe off at the collector at an angle, rotated it around, and re-welded it, and it was straight.

After the header, I crossed the pipe over to the left side of the truck due to the gas tank being on the right side, I did with with a 90 right after the header, running the pipe under the driveshaft (I have a 2 piece driveshaft, so the front one does not move up and down with suspension).



I then installed a magnaflow oval muffler as a pre-silencer, then straight into a Magnaflow XL 3 chamber muffler that is 7" round and 36" long.




So far with about 7000KM on the swap, the exhaust has been holding up. Mine is 2 1/4" pipe too. There is a decent ammount of exhaust noise in the cab, but the exhaust crossover and pre-silencer is all under the cab, along with most of the header, and there is minimal sound insulaton in these trucks. Driving normally, you cannot hear it outside, its maybe 2 times louder than stock, but once you get the revs up, it gets louder.

Here is a link to my photobucket album, mostly contains pictures from my build, some at the end are changes I have made (rad swap, e-fan, etc...)

01ec300

great build and pics! you oughta post that on some of the other threads, i've thought of doing something similar myself.