Lame :P

 

 

Looking very, very good man...!!

 

That E63 is looking good to me

 

Thank you!

I agree Jake, wish it was mine haha

Did some powder coating

 

Looking good Preston! Get it all back together already!

 

Im trying! lol get your fb back together!

 

threw together a site last night, open to criticism though i plan on changing things around some here and there. the header title also got a bit distorted after publishing so i know that needs to be fixed.

http://rotaryevolution.net

 

Capitalize your "i"s overall very good and detailed with the pricing, also maybe get a better more artistic shot of your FC on the main page

 

Yea with some textual editing and some more flashy engine/car pics it would look really nice. Impressive so far, glad you are doing this as I think it will help drive people to your shop. Once they see how good your service is they'll come back.

Putting the pricing in some sort of table would make it look more organized, professional, and a little easier to understand. Although I have no trouble understanding it, some people might.

 

Also there is a way to edit the Title of your page (meaning the part that is shown on tabs in tabbed browsers), right now your title goes by the section that is selected which is ok, but Putting Rotary Evolution in front of it might help remind them where they are.

 

clean rotors make me happy in pants.


Ben, website looks good I agree about having a table for your prices, just makes its more professional looking.

 

I'll be happy in my pants when she fires up LOL

 

thanks for the suggestions, i'll see what i can do. the editor is simple so some things are actually more difficult to accomplish with it.

 

Holy ****! Welcome to the Interwebs!!!

now I have to change the sticker on my car.....

 

lol, it just took a few people bugging me about the website to put one up but the last quote was for a few hundred $ at a discount rate so i decided to just do it one evening. i honestly don't feel like paying someone multiples of what i make per hour. plus i will have the experience of how the layout is setup to make adjusting things easier later on.

page title is fixed, changed the header but i still don't like how it's turning out(the header section box is a pita to work with in this editor as you can't overlay anything or it will crop it and put in sliders, the auto resizing tool also blows). i'll work on the pricing page soon.

i could just bite the bullet and install dreamweaver on the laptop from my desktop but last time i opened DW i about crapped myself with all the tools, it is overwhelming and would take a week to read through just the tutorial. even basic tasks are easy to botch with it unless you know what you're doing.

 

comes up as the 7th result in a google search for rotary evolution

Mission accomplished as far as I'm concerned. You don't need a big fancy website right away, you can always add to it later.

 

If you want any testimony write ups or anything let me know. I would be happy to write something up for you.

 

will do, i haven't decided yet if i'm going to have a testimonial page or something similar yet.

and i haven't added any meta tags yet so it should be first in google once i do that

 

just about finished setting up the rotor housing resurfacing jig. yes i know, copycat but Goopy had to expect it to happen sooner or later, i had actually seen some of the motors from mazdarecycling that their rebuilder did a similar process but it was very poor and had high/low spots all over the place so i was hesitant to attempt something. but with the method i worked up it should give a very flat workable surface.

so i know this isn't anything new, people have been doing similar for many years but Goopy's have been the best i have seen to date and wanted to offer something closer for the west coast peeps.

with lapping and resurfacing options it comes about as close as one can possibly get to a new motor without shelling out $5-6k.

i guess it was really just Preston making me look bad got me inspired to go a step further.

also in the works i plan on building an injector test stand, flow bench and cleaning setup. since there is no real injection shop here in town and i sometimes don't feel like bothering with or waiting on sending injectors out for service. this also eliminates any possibility of recieving faulty injectors, i can also balance them as closely as possible. sometimes i just hate the fact that i can't see the results in person to know if an injector issue was a real fault or not.

 

figuring out how much material i have to play with, this was a junk rotor housing with huge pitting in the center area of the housing from a worn apex seal as well as quite a bit of chrome flaking on the edges, some of which can't be fixed.



not done yet but that small groove in the middle may as well have been the grand canyon before now.

this gives you an idea of the depth:



i need to work out a way of taking material off faster though, but this is an extreme example as most should not need this much milling and this engine had 175k hard miles(chunks of chrome missing in spots, edges flaking and deep gouging in the center areas).

note: if you see this Chris this was your old housing i'm playing with. can get pics of the chatter and chunks missing if you want em.

 

and a full pass of the housing which is now about half finished

 

well this is about as good as this housing will get.. hopefully i can cut labor down to about 1.5 hours with some different adapters as this was just a test run. so should be priced in line with goopy's rate.

 

here is a better picture after deglazing the surface, just so you guys don't think the surface truly isn't as flat as it appeared in that last picture.



this is about as good as i can do for a before and after comparison with the rotor housing's younger brother that was in much better condition than the housing i resurfaced.





i did go a little nuts around the exhaust port, but nothing a streetport can't fix.

ok side project complete, back to work on the engine assembly line..

 

So the one you resurfaced is usable now or did you have to take off too much to smooth it out?