one rotor fun
02-25-05, 12:59 PM
#26
Rotary Enthusiast
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: fl
Posts: 1,255
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
it wont hurt the engine to run one rotor (unplug one os the injecot sets) for a few minutes.
i inadvertenly did this on mine. like said it wont idle for crap and will have barely enough power to get you down the road. but as for helping emissions, in ordert ot get it to idle on one rotor you'de have to do as much is not more adjusting and tunning than is probobly necissary to get it to pass on both rotors.
i inadvertenly did this on mine. like said it wont idle for crap and will have barely enough power to get you down the road. but as for helping emissions, in ordert ot get it to idle on one rotor you'de have to do as much is not more adjusting and tunning than is probobly necissary to get it to pass on both rotors.
02-25-05, 02:18 PM
#28
Eats, Sleeps, Dreams Rotary
iTrader: (1)
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 3,106
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
100% agreed that running on 1 rotor will NOT help you pass emissions and would likely hurt far more than it would help.
To rebut some of the 1 rotor comments: I drove on a blown engine for over 3 months and thousands of miles. It was my daily driver. After a while the engine actually idled and started surprisingly well, I'm not really sure why, maybe because there were no seals left?
I drove it above 60mph, although only for a short period because I needed it to last.
To rebut some of the 1 rotor comments: I drove on a blown engine for over 3 months and thousands of miles. It was my daily driver. After a while the engine actually idled and started surprisingly well, I'm not really sure why, maybe because there were no seals left?
I drove it above 60mph, although only for a short period because I needed it to last.
02-26-05, 10:12 AM
#31
Engine, Not Motor
iTrader: (1)
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 29,789
Likes: 0
Received 110 Likes
on
93 Posts
Snrub's engine was totally dead. If I remember correctly, it was the front rotor that let go. No seals left. When the engine was split apart, the housing and rotor was complete trash with massive 5MM deep grooves and chunks missing.
02-26-05, 03:53 PM
#32
Eats, Sleeps, Dreams Rotary
iTrader: (1)
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 3,106
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Yes it was the front rotor, good memory. Originally after blowing the engine it did register the slightest bit of compression on one side and later it registered absolutely none. The sound of it changed too. Think about what would happen to a merely damaged seal after running for a while, when one seal completely went. It would be torn to shreads, which is what happened.
02-26-05, 06:00 PM
#34
A fd guy in socal called JJ on the boards passed with 1 rotor with his fd on stock cats and everything legit.
There's a video i have also of a s5 na running on 1 rotor with a perfect idle but then they peg the tach for about 10 minutes and blow the other rotor, thats a great video haha.
There's a video i have also of a s5 na running on 1 rotor with a perfect idle but then they peg the tach for about 10 minutes and blow the other rotor, thats a great video haha.
02-26-05, 08:44 PM
#36
Refined Valley Dude
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Kitchener, Ontario (Hamilton's armpit)
Posts: 2,283
Likes: 0
Received 2 Likes
on
2 Posts
Originally Posted by andrewdruiz
There's a video i have also of a s5 na running on 1 rotor with a perfect idle but then they peg the tach for about 10 minutes and blow the other rotor, thats a great video haha.
Is that the one that was going around last year, where afterwards they discover that the cat is on fire?
02-27-05, 01:36 AM
#39
Rotary Enthusiast
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: King of the road
Posts: 908
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by vice
would it be bad to run my engine on one rotor for about 15 minutes? i think if i run on one rotor i should pass emmisions with flying colors since half of my emmisions would be just air. so if it won't mess anythign up, how would i go about running my s4 TII on one rotor?
thats a damn good idea. one rotor would be pushing hella clean air, I would bet it would work if you Unplugged the injector ofcourse!
02-27-05, 02:30 AM
#40
Rotary Enthusiast
Join Date: May 2004
Location: OC
Posts: 1,088
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
hey... why dont you try this and let us know how it goes?
my thoughts are that youre going to need starting fluid to get her goin, and your going to have to really kick the crap out of your car to get the cats warm.. but id like to see if this works
my thoughts are that youre going to need starting fluid to get her goin, and your going to have to really kick the crap out of your car to get the cats warm.. but id like to see if this works
02-27-05, 10:59 AM
#41
Eats, Sleeps, Dreams Rotary
iTrader: (1)
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 3,106
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I didn't like that video of the blown engine S5 with the tach pegged. The engine did not die of it's own volition, it overheated because the rad cap was off (or something like that). Driving the car around for 3 months like I did is probably far harder on the engine than what they did in that video if they hadn't overheated it.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post