Re: buddy of mine is building a FC and it gives me a hard on
 

I doubt the daily driver thing is going to work out for him unless someone in the aftermarket has started making stronger rotors and housings. :-\

Please do ask him about stepping down the exhaust? After the turbine all exhaust harmonics are over + done, I can't for the life of me figure out why. ???

Re: buddy of mine is building a FC and it gives me a hard on
 

I believe hes headed back to Arizona where he will open a shop up there in a few years. Bacially move his shop from here to there.

Considering hes tuning this for a 7-8 sec street car @ 33psi from that huge turbo, I cant image what his track tune will be like.

You should see his datalogger that im highly considering getting.

http://www.powertraincontrolsolutions.com/

its the D200 model and will be the last gauge anyone would need to buy. For ~$600 its a steal and a half. Won the best technoligical (sp) product at sema last year. Pretty dam sweet. Check it out.

Re: buddy of mine is building a FC and it gives me a hard on
 

I kinda cant figure out where your comming with the stronger rotors and housings. There are rotaries here that people beat on and daily drive them all the time. Another good friend of mine has a rotary thats pumping probably 450+hp and has been running fine for a little over 5 years I believe, stock 13b housings/rotor's. Its all in the tune, and you of all people should know this JD.

Ive honestly thought about going rotary if I dont go do this recruiter thing. The guy building this FC has another FC ready for some love and is selling it pretty cheap. Kinda gives me a hard on to think about it actually...

As for the pipe, I asked him.
The turbo blade is only 4 inch in diameter, Exhaust blade, and the down pipe is 3 and a 1/2.

Re: buddy of mine is building a FC and it gives me a hard on
 

Im not sure why but people on this site think rotaries are extremly unreliable.I owned a couple RX7's and they were good cars and i had no issues even though i was 16-18 and drove like a retard ragging it 90% of the time.They are very sensitive to tuning when running big boost but properly tuned generally pretty solid.I have thought about buying a FD to move out of Hondas to as the JDM ones are now legal for import to Canada and i see some really low mileage mint cars coming over :y 20B swap for the win.

Re: buddy of mine is building a FC and it gives me a hard on
 

Thats what everyone tells me. Keep it stock and up to date with maint. issues, and it will run forever.
YOu start playin with the boost, you gotta make sure the tune is 100% perfect (unlike a honda that will run with a tune that isnt perfect) a rotary will ---- you if its tuned improperly. I am a 100% noob to tuning, there are PLENTY of people here who will tune rotaries to a precise a/f and I would 100% trust them. -and they would probably teach me as well.

Re: buddy of mine is building a FC and it gives me a hard on
 

Space. The car has to be able to be driven on the street, it is what the owner/builder wants. 5" pipe does not fit under the car and the 90mm pipe more than supports 700whp. This car will not be a daily driver in the sense that it will have to get him to work, but it will get drag raced on a daily basis.

Re: buddy of mine is building a FC and it gives me a hard on
 

Eh. Maybe it's more of an FD than an FC thing, the more hyped car draws all the press etc, but Mazda had very poor QC with those cars.

The local FC guys can't keep engines for longer than a couple months, and one or two of them seem pretty bright. Phil (not bright, complete mean ass redneck, awesome guy tho) keeps dropping used bottom of the barrel $100 engines into his turbocar and making close to 500 whp on a car engineered with zipties. Good stuff.

Re: buddy of mine is building a FC and it gives me a hard on
 

Igy is the one who tuned the rotary above I mentioned. -and has tuned plenty on island.

and isn't the 13b the same in the FC and the FD? The RX8 motor is the 'new one' ...the renisis or whatever its called? -and you guys also have the 12a I believe.

And if you do a little research on the rotary, they were very very well engineered motors, can typically last hundreds of thousands of miles if maintained (like any other motor) and I didnt know this but the corvette accually experimented with a rotary motor at one time ;) You do also know the rotary was used in airplanes....right?

Re: buddy of mine is building a FC and it gives me a hard on
 

sweat!!!!! :y :y

Re: buddy of mine is building a FC and it gives me a hard on
 

I think you mean sweet lol