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Car Throttle – Here's What A Damaged Rotary Engine Looks Like Inside (RX-8)

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Old 01-05-19, 09:10 AM
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Car Throttle – Here's What A Damaged Rotary Engine Looks Like Inside (RX-8)

This engine is in bad shape:

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pretty decent video. i subscribed for the rebuild part as the tear down was well documented.
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Yes, I'm looking forward to the rebuild. These guys seem to know what they're doing.
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Here's the rebuild

GREAT video!
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Love these videos. Reminds me that there are so many things to screw up if you're not careful, though.
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Tuning for flames:

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Fixed at last – The Differences Between Bridge Ported and Street Ported Rotary Engines:

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Very cool series I stumbled on the other day and actually got me to re-register on here after ~15 years away. Kicking around the idea of building an RX-3 race car...seeing all the rotary love is detrimental to my bank account!
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