Rotary noob in Northern VA
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Rotary noob in Northern VA
Greetings all. My name is Fadi and I come to you from Northern Virginia.
I've been searching constantly in the last ~8 months about rotaries and this forum constantly comes up with a bunch of useful info. And now that I have some dorritos in the garage, I figure I'll finally register and post, because I'm going to have plenty of questions.
My car isn't a standard Mazda RXx, in fact it isn't a Mazda at all. I'm building a Donkervoort D8 RS06 inspired car. Which in itself is a Lotus 7 inspired car. I knew I wanted to build my own frame up car, but since it would be a track car, the unprotected exposure in a typical LoCost 7 is out of the question. I want to be able to walk away in the event of an 'incident'. So when I saw the D8 RS06, I knew what I wanted, although for simplicity it will be open cockpit. I started with a donor Mazda Miata, took the subframes on a work table and set the wheelbase. From there it was simply a mater of building the frame between.
Originally I was going to use the donor Miata's drivetrain, because it only cost me some machine shop labor and parts to rebuild (I have owned the donor car since '01, so I know it's history). But somewhere along the line last year I bought another Miata that needed an engine, so it went there.. So that left me with a motorless chassis, and I figured the rotary would be a perfect power plant.
So.. Earlier this year I picked up a 13b from a RePU. It had new housings, and new seals and the plates were resurfached. Only problem is the guy I got it from had dissembled it to inspect but due to health was unable to complete, so I was feeling adventurous. I was out of my element... Boxes of rotary parts is no place for a beginner. If anyone is in my area and want to help, I'd appreciate it. But, this past weekend, I did find another engine, it's a running (and complete
) 86 6-port with an RB intake. So the plan is to put that in as the main power plant, then go back as I learn more and bridge the 4-port and swap later.
So that's where I am now. Here is a picture of the bare chassis. 2x3" for the main frame, and 1.5"x.120 DOM for the rest. It's more than this now, but life has slowed me down.
I've been searching constantly in the last ~8 months about rotaries and this forum constantly comes up with a bunch of useful info. And now that I have some dorritos in the garage, I figure I'll finally register and post, because I'm going to have plenty of questions.
My car isn't a standard Mazda RXx, in fact it isn't a Mazda at all. I'm building a Donkervoort D8 RS06 inspired car. Which in itself is a Lotus 7 inspired car. I knew I wanted to build my own frame up car, but since it would be a track car, the unprotected exposure in a typical LoCost 7 is out of the question. I want to be able to walk away in the event of an 'incident'. So when I saw the D8 RS06, I knew what I wanted, although for simplicity it will be open cockpit. I started with a donor Mazda Miata, took the subframes on a work table and set the wheelbase. From there it was simply a mater of building the frame between.
Originally I was going to use the donor Miata's drivetrain, because it only cost me some machine shop labor and parts to rebuild (I have owned the donor car since '01, so I know it's history). But somewhere along the line last year I bought another Miata that needed an engine, so it went there.. So that left me with a motorless chassis, and I figured the rotary would be a perfect power plant.
So.. Earlier this year I picked up a 13b from a RePU. It had new housings, and new seals and the plates were resurfached. Only problem is the guy I got it from had dissembled it to inspect but due to health was unable to complete, so I was feeling adventurous. I was out of my element... Boxes of rotary parts is no place for a beginner. If anyone is in my area and want to help, I'd appreciate it. But, this past weekend, I did find another engine, it's a running (and complete
) 86 6-port with an RB intake. So the plan is to put that in as the main power plant, then go back as I learn more and bridge the 4-port and swap later.So that's where I am now. Here is a picture of the bare chassis. 2x3" for the main frame, and 1.5"x.120 DOM for the rest. It's more than this now, but life has slowed me down.
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