I think that car would be sick with any engine other than an american V8. Rotaries sound great, but so do European V8's and V10's. Yes, I love the sound of the quad rotor in the 787b and even the sound of those dumans cars was sick, but i have to say, a ferrari engine sounds amazing too.

 

Grassroots said the exhaust system on it is designed specifically for the LS7 and sounds great with it. Have to take their word for it, though.

 

I don't care for convertables too but this little thing with a rotary would be lots of fun .

 

RG, I'm buying with you! Thats is something.

 

I completely agree...a 787B would be pure sex in the GTM car but how possible will that be. It would be impossible to get one. I guess I would have to settle for a Turbo 20B setup...(sarcasm) Oh no what will I do...

 

Very nice.....mmmmmmm 20B

 

Good luck on getting a Attack kit, K-1 has stopped shipping them to the US. Here is the Attack Forum

 

If you go get parts from 2 13B's and then buy this "kit", you'll have no trouble owning your very own 4 rotor!

http://www.kiwi-re.com/wwd_showroom_cat10_2.php

 

... for an exorbitant amount of money!

 

It's not really much more money than buying a complete Renesis longblock assembly and then also buying one of the better turbocharger kits out there. Sure the V8 is cheaper but it's not a 4 rotor. Besides if you are going to the trouble to build your own supercar, may as well get what you want. $9500 New Zealand dollars is just a bit over $7000 US dollars right now. Give or take a hundred or so. I'd build my own intake and exhaust manifold fairly easily and run a Haltech on it. Many people can't do this on their own but it's not really that hard.

 

Holy Friejoles Batman!

I only need two things from you Mr. The God...

1) Your labor
2) Your wallet

 

remember the higher the center of gravity, the more fun the corners become. Well, maybe not.

 

Wow lol!!! It's probably still only as efficient as a small sun!

 

^^^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0qeYd5gcnQ
Here's the vid that talks about the gaint BLOWER lol

 

When the blower is bigger than the engine, I think someone's gone too far...

 

Hahaha.. what a coincidence. We have gtm #53.. its actually almost running. Have a g50-03 tranaxle and an ls6... pretty good hp to weight ratio. I think even on a midengined car like this 400hp and 400 ft lbs is more than enough consdiering it weighs 2200lbs.


Heres some pictures - http://sio.midco.net/dkroon/gtm/
those are the only pictures I have right now... its actually much further along than it is in those pictures. You can also see some of the parts of the donor car.

 

1) We have a/c in ours.. its a factory option and it only ads like 20 lbs. We figured it would get pretty hot in there being mid-engined... the engine is also shoved way forward into the passenger compartment... kind of like the rx8, but backwards... so the heat is sure to be an issue.

2)The car is completely street legal, they give you a title and everything. It's even being registered in states like california where they have to go through emmision testing.

Surprisingly a lot of people on the gtm forum are talking about using a rotary engine. After working this long on the car.. i wouldn't recomend it.. the manual automatically assumes that you are using a donor car and not seperate parts like you would have to if you weren't getting the donor for the engine.

I'd have to guess we've spent about $45k right now and I'd figure at least another 10k for paint and body.

 

Awesome. I wish I could see one in person.

I'm actually very surprised that anyone else would want to use a rotary over an LS engine. It's not nearly as convienient. True the car wasn't designed to use a rotay but then again RX-7's and RX-8's weren't designed to use V8's and we see people adapting them to fit. You can already buy an adapter for a rotary to Porsche transaxle so the real issue is going to be custom motor mounts and worrying about intake, exhaust, and cooling systems. While not easy, it doesn't need to be hard. It just isn't as easy as doing it the way they intend you to.

 

A lot of people on the gtm forum also mentioned that the rotary has an adapter for the g50 transaxle.. I think there is another kit or rolling chassis out there that uses a rotary engine but it was around $90k. Curb weight was crazy low though.

 

I seen the GTM videos before, back when I was looking at these kit cars. They all share low weight, V8 engine, no airbags, no company emblem badges, gutted-out racing interior, and salvaged steering wheel. The lack of exterior brand emblems gives them the fake Viper look. There are many positives, but these negatives can weigh heavily to some.

 

Ill take a GTM 4 rotor and an attack with a renesis please

 

i bet most of you have seen this, but it's worth reposting for those who haven't...

http://thirdeyedumb.com/2007/04/ferr..._rsx_nice.html

 

those guys did a wide body eunos cosmo and I havent being able to find it, have you seen it?

 

The amazing thing is, I could build one of these for just slightly more than the price of a new RX-8.

 

I was really pondering getting this.
http://www.ddrmotorsport.com