Aoshi Shinomori

Guitar this all sounds great, but if I were you I'd be careful about posting about prices and such. Now I'm sure just about everyone on the board loves what you're working on, but the Mods have these "rules" :D . If you're going to talk about pricing and stuff you'd have to become a forum vendor, and I'm not sure you want to give yourself that status yet as I believe there is a cost to be a vendor. If I made a mistake on that one some please let me know. I hope the porting comes out real nice. One last thing. As far as what you've previously done to other motors, how is the sound after porting? Thanks.

guitarjunkie28

thanks for the warning. if the time comes when i start wanting to advertise, i'll look into the vendor status. i certainly don't want to overstep my bounds on this forum!

porting depends a lot on the exhaust system. obviously, it will make it at least a little bit louder since there's more air going into the motor. the loudest porting i've done so far has been a heavily exhaust ported half-bridge. it's in my car :D

rotarygod

How far are you from L.A. or any other major airport, guitar? I can fly roundtrip in the U.S. for only $25 since my sister works for Continental. I could fly out there for a day or two to check these out and do some porting.

guitarjunkie28

great!!!
if you can fly to ontario international, i can pick you up--i'm about an hour from there.
i'm about 2 hours as the bird flys from LAX, but it's typically 2 1/2-3 hrs with traffic. if you have to fly there, try to make the arrival time after 9pm...after traffic dies down.

i'll hook you up with the couch, or help you find a hotel in the area. look forward to having you! you, snoochie and i should have a conference call or something.

Snoochie

OH GOOD GOD! If you come out here rotarygod I will let you stay at my house if your willing to listen to me ask you a million questions(half joking)!! Or we could figure out the hotel thing hehe. I live about 20 minutes from Ont. Airport on the way to Guitarjunkies. I'm gonna call him in like 5 seconds and figure stuff out.

RX3+5

I'm back thank you!

Vince

rotarygod

Ontario is easy. LAX is crazy busy and hard to fly into. Ontario wouldn't be bad. Now I just need to see what my schedule is like. I could probably come out one day and leave the next. I don't think I could get away for more than 2 days.

Snoochie

Well the plan is on monday I'm going up there to Dyno and do the egt maybe (still don't know exactly how to do that, stick a termometer at the tip of the exhaust?). Therefore we would be all set to get in gear. Then whatever day you head out here we (by we I mean you two, with me watching) can do everything needed.

guitarjunkie28

we can dyno it without rg. that way, he can just come out when it's time to port.

rotarygod

Yeah I don't really have time to go pull an engine out and then tear it down. We'd never get any sleep. This isn't monster garage.

BaronVonBigmeat

All I can say is...."pics plz" :D

guitarjunkie28

my buddy came over to pick up his fd and snapped off some pics today. lemme photochop 'em and you can see where the first one is at.

Aoshi Shinomori

Pretty sweet that you're going to get to work with Rotarygod on this one. He's of the most knowledgeable people I've ever encountered...and he seems like a real cool guy too. I'm hoping that you two rotor heads can make this project into a reality for all the 8 owners. Make sure you guys have a camera the day you screw around with the engine :D Good luck guys, may the force be with you! (Just watched Empire Strikes Back, sorry)

Ole Spiff

This is a great thread! I've enjoyed reading this more than most suspense novels; it's like being on the verge of a great discovery or something.

I'm just a few miles away from Snoochie; I live in North Fontana Ranch area. I will be VERY interested to see the results of this project. The only performance mod I have on mine is a Racing Beat exhaust. It would be interesting to see what the performance gains would be on an 8 with the stock exhaust, versus the improved flow of Racing Beat's exhaust. RB's exhaust may make a much bigger difference on a ported engine than on a stock engine. I love the way the RB exhaust sounds, and it does seem to pull a tiny bit better at the high end of the rpms. If porting and an RB exhaust unleashes a significant amount of power, then this will be a great way to go.

rotarygod

You've obviously never met me!!! :D

IF I can get out there, let's have a SoCal meet. I'd like to meet some of you guys or re-meet those I saw at Sevenstock a couple of months ago.

RX8 XTC

Hay Guys mmMmMMM can I help IN Somthing ?? LOL 100% stock here still I live in riverside by the way i want to see what is the End results if i can Please thanks

Ole Spiff

This would be way cool. Just post when and where; if I'm not working, I'll be there!

Aoshi Shinomori

I'd love to go to SoCal, only problem is...I'm in NY. But if the dates fit, maybe a road trip will be in order. I'd like to meet a lot of these guys too.

rotarygod

A road trip to SoCal from NY!!! Good lord that is dedication! I'm still taking a plane.

rotarygod

This is for sale in Torrance right now. Someone get it!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...sPageName=WDVW

Ajax

5 days left. I'll take a look in a few. The carfax isnt working atm. Is this for a full car or just the engine and transmission?

Ahh. .Salvage title. Severe accident. I wonder where it was hit?

dmp

Somebody should transplant those into a miata

rotarygod

Just the engine an tranny. No car.

Ajax

Yea, i got that after reading the carfax. Just poorly worded.

Anyway, i'll look into it at the end of the auction (and after I call them and find out where the accident was). If it's still reasonable towards the end, I may buy it for an experimental engine.

rotarygod

I was going to just buy a brand new Renesis center housing so I could redesign and machine a new exhaust sleeve and so I could learn where to port the center housing but the damn thing costs $433 new!!! Holy crap! I'd consider the eBay engine a good deal under $2000.