Hey guys, Ive been studyin the rotary engine for a while now and i just really cant find any tricks for gettin more power besides the normal turbo, new rotars and stuff like that. I wana do something original with my fc so if anyone know the tricks for the rotary please inform me so i can put somthing together.

 

You could do porting? Upgrade fuel/spark, the basics like intake/exhaust. How much power are you looking to get?

 

Yeah...porting, ignition, free flowing intake and exhaust, turbo, supercharger, Nitrous......

 

you wont be pulling over 200hp out of an NA, that's what i heard.

 

Put the biggest blower in the universe on it and call it a day.

 

200HP out of an NA is readily attainable (flywheel not RWHP). The RX-8s do more than that stock! RWHP, 180-190 is probably realistically the most you can hope for. BUT, that's assuming street port. With a bridge or peripheral port you can get lots more.

 

Then you've never seen what a good port and a Motec can do...

Highest I've seen is ~238rwhp on a raceport NA.

 

hook up the suspension and run the canyons in it!

 

that is what im talking about! lol.

 

cool cool cool, im def gunna go turbo. Im thinkin bout gettin the jdm 20b upgrading the turbo, apexi fc series standalone, and def suspention mods. Im lookin in the area of 400 maybe 450 would be nice.

 

Have fun with a 20b swap. You will easily spend $10k+ just getting the motor into the car and running. A 13bt swap will be a lot cheaper, and you can just get it rebuilt/streetport, upgrade turbo, exhaust, intake, injectors, fuel/spark, standalone, fmic, etc and be right where you want. Check out www.fc3spro.com and their tech sections for info, also just look around here. You can get that much hp without having to drop all that money into a 20b. That is unless you want a 20b, then go right ahead, more power to you.

 

20b setup isnt for the faint of heart (or cheapass). it cost alot to obtain it and set it up to work.

 

Yeah so i checked out the fc2pro.com. that changed my mind on the 20b. I would love to do it but dont have the time, money, or resourses to do it. I think a 13b with a good street port maybe a 61mm turbo and the standalone along with all the little stuff will be a pretty quiky kid. If any body has anymore tricks please let me know. Also im lookin for a 87 fc pretty much any condition is good just pm me with anything. Thanks

 

If you're just starting out with rotary, you should just get an NA and learn with it. Get comfortable driving the car and working on it. It will be easier than dropping all the money into a turbo and something going wrong or you changing your mind about the car.
-Eric

 

no way... the na and turbo versions are so different that it's a whole new learning curve to go through.... If you have a really good understanding of how a rotory works and all the parts to the engine and why they're there (cause they are drasticly different from a conventional piston) there's some unique engineering that went into the rotory (ie: side seals, port timing, leading and trailing spark,ast, cooling requirements, etc.). If you understand all those things, just do the turbo swap and learn from that.
IF you can't understand how the rotory works then by all means start with an NA and learn it, cause there are SOOO many things to consider when you have a turbo on one of these that it'll be overwellming learning what works and what doesn't even though it seems it should.... AND figureing out how the motor itself works.

 

go turbo bro , dont waste youre time on anything else

 

im glad i bought an NA before i went with turbo. there is alot to learn about rotaries and rx7's, and you dont want to kill your engine before you learn about why. plus i love to learn about stuff and wanted to do a swap.