Hey all. In between builds coming through the shop I've been tinkering with making cool conversation pieces more so to help me explain to people how the engine actually works. I make them out of trashed 13b and 12a engines that have flow through here constantly. I might start selling them. Maybe code match housings to Generation specific paint with whatever accent color for the rotor the consumer wants. Thoughts ?

 

Thats cool.
Add a clock(s).

 

needs more creative

 

hmm ill do searching for clocks the same diameter of an eccentric shaft.

and i dont want to add too much. keep it simple and nice. suggestions are nice tho.

 

i was gonna say add a cut section of the E-shaft. heck you could put a clock in there too. For my display come show season is a 12a detonated rotor hanging from rear bumper lol

 

hahaha ! awesome !

 

Make it into a fish tank.

 

that is an awesome idea. ill have to come up with a design

 

Looks nice... Very few people i know have any knowledge of rotaries. Gettin' em, thinking a bit never hurt!

 

here is one im going to make

 

You mean like this one? Personally I prefer the raw metal colors
Couple of years ago I made a dozen or so of these for friends. These I painted the exterior surfaces various colors.

I've also made a couple trophies for local club meets.

Regards,
crispy

 

I really like that. I guess the only thing I wanted to go with mine is the badges. Simply because of how unknown our cars and engines are to most people. I'm young (24). My house is nice but I still utilize ALOT of neon beer signs and tin signs. In other words.. bachelor pad. So Im going to fab up small discrete brackets to hold a light of some sort to spot light the housings. In between my 3 different builds ofcourse LOL.

Id like to see a small regular white light spotted on the raw metal setup you have. That would a pretty sweet conversation piece.

 

Absolutely WICKED !!!!!

LOVE THIS !

 

Here is a quick idea of what I'm talking about. Ive fabbed 5 brackets so far which I will post pics of soo.

 

Keep up the good work Dave! And yes, the fish tank is pretty rad.

 

I just thought of this... maybe i cant see the picture well but where is the opening for air and too feed them ?

 

My idea that I see is the water level is down a bit so you can cut off the top of the plexi on the back piece so you can fit a net and feed the fish

 

Something that I also wanna make.

 

That's properly cool, that is. I was gonna ask what sort of rotor that was, those bathtubs are massively wide but flat, nothing like any Mazda ones I've seen... but it answers it's own question; it's a Norton motorbike one, isn't it? Clock is great though, reckon it might be tricky getting much sleep if that was your bedside clock

 

Thats pretty crazy.