buddy of mine is building a FC and it gives me a hard on
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Re: buddy of mine is building a FC and it gives me a hard on
Originally Posted by junkyard racer
You do also know the rotary was used in airplanes....right?
#35
Re: buddy of mine is building a FC and it gives me a hard on
Originally Posted by igy
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
Here in the Dirty South, we get TRASHCAR discards for pennies on the dollar. 4" and 5" to flat rectangular section transitions meant for low-to-ground vehicles, with a few hours use on them, can be had pretty cheaply locally, and there is a huge resaler of such parts in Charlotte. I know it's not normal fare, but it's out there. Not arguing, either, but there is always another way and target power is a lot to be shoving out 3.5" pipe if you can possibly expell it easier..
Originally Posted by junkyard racer
and isn't the 13b the same in the FC and the FD?
I also know Steve Eckeritch of GRM Rotary Spit fame, he did the GT6/Miata/RX7 hybrid *** end for the Ro-Spit, traded a couple Triumph parts with him over the years, and had him show me some of his mojo on the Turbo II RX7s in re being able to grind 0.003" off each side of a rotor housing and still use it where mere mortals throw them away. He kept having problems with blasting off chunks of rotor housing around the ports, but this was also in the stone age of tuning ~95-96 or so before riceboys had figured out that stock Honduh engines were only good for 6 psi of boost on an FMU.
Originally Posted by junkyard racer
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)
I know ALL the rotaries hit ~80K and don't like to start if they've been left sitting for a couple days. Apex seals are consumables on those cars, partially due to design, partially because they are never maintainenced properly (oil injection pumps aren't replaced when they should be, oil not topped off between changes when the cars are designed to burn it, etc).
Originally Posted by junkyard racer
and I didnt know this but the corvette accually experimented with a rotary motor at one time
Dropping the GM name doesn't mean much to me, and most of the Corvette line means even less. The old cars are only valuable because they are old and rare and 1.9 million mullets liked the shitty C3 160 hp L-48s and the OMG L-82s!!!11 that came with monstrous RV cam grinds. The C4 chassis is solid if you want to throw some work into a platform, but it's the C5 and C6 that are real cars - only took GM a handful of decades to figure out how to build a car, awesome learning curve there.
Originally Posted by junkyard racer
You do also know the rotary was used in airplanes....right?
:P
Okay, tired, ZZZZzzzZZZZzzz soon. It was fun arguing with you again, Frank, and give your boy props on his car for me. While rotaries aren't my cup of tea, it'll be faster than anything I can afford anytime in this decade and I am green with envy.
#36
Re: buddy of mine is building a FC and it gives me a hard on
subaru and aircooled VW engines are huge in home built planes. some people also use an aircooled VW engine cut in half to make an opposed 2 cylinder engine
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Re: buddy of mine is building a FC and it gives me a hard on
Originally Posted by BlackDragon
look at JD dropping knowledge