Turbos are showing how deep the rabbit hole can go.




There is no spoon.

 

Turbo = Can't go rallying. Unless we convert it to diesel, which may be a little difficult.

Besides, turbo lag = fail

 

So how are you pushing 268 bhp without a turbo? Let me guess, you're a supercharger fanboi? :P

 

Nope

That's a crank figure btw, not wheels, I'm not that good!

 

But still, how are you getting that much at the crank, when stock 8s dyno 180-190 at the wheels? Also, how/why did you measure it at the crank?

 

No air-con/PAS pump, underdrive pulleys, some intake modifications, tiny flywheel, some slight tidying of the exhaust port castings, standalone management, a proper siamesed LCB exhaust manifold, the silencers are straight through designs, no cat, higher rev. limit, ceramic coated intake with PTFE gaskets to keep the intake temperatures down a little (quite high originally we found), more efficient water pump, a little more charge time on the coils helped too, surprisingly.
Fuel rail was altered to a pass-through to stop the fuel boiling in the rail - there's some heat in that bugger as standard too.

Nothing huge mechanically but lots of little changes.

 

Oh, and it's running a smaller alternator from a '7, and of course the OMP is in the bin, premixed on Silkolene and IPA.

I've probably forgot some bits.

 

And my torqueless wonder has just snapped the input shaft clean off the gearbox whilst changing into 4th gear

 

ipa = india pale ale?

quite a premix!

 

Obviously it works, sheared an inch of input shaft off like it was made of butter.

 

Damn man... That really does suck! I wonder how much it will cost to fix it!

 

It's not so much fixing it - it's stopping it doing it again!

 

oh yeah rotary's have not torque oh and their motors blow up at 30k miles

 

That's OK, the way it's going it's going to struggle to clock up another 100.

 

yeah of course i'm gonna have to get the first 100 thousand in first

 

Aw, bugger, the clutch is slipping again...



Give it a few seconds with no throttle then.




Hmm, nope, still slipping...

 

You can get flywheel rubber out of just about anything

-1.3L

 

An inch of input shaft? holy smokes

 

It's the shock loading that kills 'em over the rough stuff, took out the end of a 300M driveshaft and cracked the chro-moly race cages on 2 CV joints too.

Still, back going again now!

 

Not totally sure, but I think I see the slippage problem... There are numerous photons of light passing unobstructed beneath your tires.



So, if when hitting water, it's called "hydroplaning", this is an example of "airplaning"

 

That's rotary engines don't have **** for torque check out this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ZStKvjVTk

 

bollocks!!

 

2 thanks

 

Aw bugger, I knew I shouldn't have converted it to hydrogen...

 

nice!