My RX7/Rotary projects... formerly My Blk base build up..
#1051
I realized I should of said not on a 20B. One of the main reason for us going bottom mount is to utilize the higher mounting of 20B (to clear FD steering rack) and put the turbo weight more down at the bottom vs. already higher 20B. Not sure if we would of done bottom mount if 20B was in similar location of where REW sits in an FD.
Here is a picture of the Twin Turbo bottom mount set up.
See below for what the 20B manifold my friend Walker made..
December 22nd, 2011 - I went over to MPFab to check out the manifold progress and lend a hand if needed (not that I can do much). We also wanted to test fit the turbo and get some measurements and clearance.. But in order to finish everything up, I need to get the new steering rack.
Anyhow, here are some Walker Morgan's handy work (www.MPFab.com)
Here is a picture of the Twin Turbo bottom mount set up.
See below for what the 20B manifold my friend Walker made..
December 22nd, 2011 - I went over to MPFab to check out the manifold progress and lend a hand if needed (not that I can do much). We also wanted to test fit the turbo and get some measurements and clearance.. But in order to finish everything up, I need to get the new steering rack.
Anyhow, here are some Walker Morgan's handy work (www.MPFab.com)
#1056
Originally Posted by via facebook message
On the random, think this thing is rock solid. Easily the fastest NA I've ever imagined after about 7k miles. Sucking about 245g/s at the VERY occasional 9300k which is representative of a STUPID amount of power for these renny's. Just saying, if you need some rep for Luis, this has got to be it. There's not another renny that could even consider sucking that kind of volume- and he built it. Probably get flamed for MAF mod's imagined by trolls but just a random... thanks for the connection. Hope all your builds are going well. Peace!
He is in my mind reasonable for what you get especially when its cranked on a stand. Also, he takes time specing every little things. He has been building engines for over 30 years and you definitely get his experience in every engine he builds. I was mind blown by what he was able to find out through building my 20B motor.
He also built his own lapping table (which I have seen one Rich Engman in ATL has and I consider Luis' better than Rick's), can balance rotating assemblies (which is done by Luis and his friend who balanced piston engines for various Nascar and other pro race teams), and builds amazing engines to spec!
#1057
December 26th, 2011 - After a full day at work, I decided to take the dash apart and get it ready to get it recovered by my interior guy tomorrow..
Here are some pics of the stripped dash..
re-enforcement bar and wires..
I'm also re doing the center tunnel and door panels.. Should take about a month..
Here are some pics of the stripped dash..
re-enforcement bar and wires..
I'm also re doing the center tunnel and door panels.. Should take about a month..
#1058
Garage Hero
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Right on!! Thats pretty damn sweet man! I'm getting ready to pull my dash as well. I had planned on leaving it and the junk tan carpet in for a while.. but I already have it halfway stripped and I'm going to put my body through the dash as well to clean some things up in my engine bay
Also, did you ever sell that exedy twin you had? or did you just keep it?
Also, did you ever sell that exedy twin you had? or did you just keep it?
#1059
Garage Hero
iTrader: (93)
Oh and by the way... I LOVE your manifold.. I'll be doing a similar 13B design.. dual synapse gates for my time attack/drift/street queen =-)
A lot of people have their opinions on long runner mani's but all the research i've done has said it always leads to great mid range power bands = the funnest cars to drive!!
A lot of people have their opinions on long runner mani's but all the research i've done has said it always leads to great mid range power bands = the funnest cars to drive!!
#1061
Thanks guys! Hope all turns out ok..
Anyhow....
December 30th, 2011 - Not much update on the car... but in a rotary related thing, I had a chance to go see some rare historical rotary cars in Nashville, TN.
Thanks to Founder/Director of Lane Motor Museum, I had a chance to see, hear, and touch some historical and super rare rotary cars.
Here are some pics from my private tour.
1967 NSU Spider - This is the first production rotary car with single rotor, rear mounted engine.
Another Rare NSU Ro-80 - A Birotor sedan
Citroen GS Birotor - I knew about the NSU, but did not know about this Citroen vehicle.
And finally a super rare Citroen M35 Prototype single rotor vehicle... This is the only one in USA.
Anyhow....
December 30th, 2011 - Not much update on the car... but in a rotary related thing, I had a chance to go see some rare historical rotary cars in Nashville, TN.
Thanks to Founder/Director of Lane Motor Museum, I had a chance to see, hear, and touch some historical and super rare rotary cars.
Here are some pics from my private tour.
1967 NSU Spider - This is the first production rotary car with single rotor, rear mounted engine.
Another Rare NSU Ro-80 - A Birotor sedan
Citroen GS Birotor - I knew about the NSU, but did not know about this Citroen vehicle.
And finally a super rare Citroen M35 Prototype single rotor vehicle... This is the only one in USA.
#1067
January 4th, 2012 - Happy New Year!!!
Well, not much have been done to the car as I was busy at work... Also, I'm about to trade this shell for an R1 shell without the sunroof. Hoping to do that this weekend.
Anyhow, the little time I had, I stripped out the dash and refinished the rusty metal dash frame.
I sanded it down to bare metal, treated with rust inhibitor, and primed it.
I then sprayed with gloss black then quick shot of gunmetal and clear the whole thing.. Shouldn't rust again
I'm heading to my fabricator's shop (www.MPFab.com) to pull the engine out and get it ready for this weekend's shell swap.
Well, not much have been done to the car as I was busy at work... Also, I'm about to trade this shell for an R1 shell without the sunroof. Hoping to do that this weekend.
Anyhow, the little time I had, I stripped out the dash and refinished the rusty metal dash frame.
I sanded it down to bare metal, treated with rust inhibitor, and primed it.
I then sprayed with gloss black then quick shot of gunmetal and clear the whole thing.. Shouldn't rust again
I'm heading to my fabricator's shop (www.MPFab.com) to pull the engine out and get it ready for this weekend's shell swap.
#1073
More Updates....
January 10th, 2012 - Well, I would of made an earlier update but I had to put 14 hour day at work yesterday and didn't have much time to tell you all what happened to my trip.
Well, last week I was running around town trying to get my shell ready for a swap with an R1 shell (without sunroof) that a friend of mine had in GA. So, I had to pull the 20B out, get the hatch from my friend's shop (which I was going to paint it and put on my MB FD), find a trailer, and a friend to help me tow it. Because my fabricator does not come in on saturday, I also had to go there day early to pull the car out so I can load it day after.
Saturday morning (Jan. 7th) - We loaded up the car and got to my friend's place in GA. We started taking stuff off of his car and started to transfer to my shell.
During this process, the car smelled really bad and we found some crazy stuff. Like dead mouse
I guess the car was sitting outside for awhile and a mouse made a nice home out of this RX-7.
Since I was going to strip this car to bare metal, I didn't really care about the smell or the dead mouse.... but I did care about what I found next, a bent frame that lead to bent head light assembly mounting points. This is a bad sign as when headlights are mounted and pop ups go up and down, the geometry is messed up so the lights might not line up. At this point, I was quite upset.. Just because I asked my friend to check the car as he knew the car was in an accident before. Also because my car was on hold for 2-3 weeks as my fabricator couldn't cut anything on the shell because of this swap. And I wasted my weekend, other people's time, etc just because my friend didn't take 10 mins to check over the car carefully and to see where the accident was. But he's a friend and he feels bad and going to help me out later so I cant be mad at him.
Anyhow, we loaded the car back up and drove it back to my fabricator.
Hopefully, I'll have more fabrication updates later this week!