Project hardtimes/rx8
 

Well I know some have seen the last post of me thinking about to an engine swap well the route I took was takin it to Turblown to have my engine rebuild a turboed hopefully. My engine only had about 40,000 when it gave on me last month. Rotarys are expensive I think but as everyone says u gotta pay to play. After pulling the engine my self which I do see doing again, so after the dropping it off and couple days later got the call that I had bad housing, I'll post pics of this progress at time go by

engine mod list :
street port
rx7 seals
engine oil loop line mod
kgparts fuel rails
fidanza flywheel

List will be updated as time goes on...

40,000+ on this motorr when it gave out on me,

Good to see your staying with it man. Does turboblown specialize in Rotaries? You should have sent it to Mazmart.

I do not know about their history with Rotaries but they work on them.

http://www.turblown.net/rotary.html

They acutally do, when I went to drop my engine off they that a 20b and acouple rx7's there. I can say they do have some good quailty work and if u can think or dream about th sky is the limit. I havnt really heard to much about mazmart about doing a rebuilds besides a water pump. Plus I rather be able to go to a place were I can visually see what going on instead of paying $3000+ on an engine and I'm not able to know what going on or go back and check on progress all on all it's more convient for me.

yes he does. he's currently finishing up my turbo build.


couple of questions:
When I was over there monday, Elliot showed me your motor. .It has some really sharp edges on the housing where they meet the irons. To the point of slicing your finger open if you're not careful. First rotary i've seen like this..

What oil were you using in that motor? and when was the motor replaced?

Looks like a legit place. I have actually heard of them from some where, I think because of that line loop mod. Looks like they can handle it just fine. Hope everything goes well.

The rotors look carboned up as hell..

The type of oil I was usin was 5w-20 Valvoline non sync and the last time I reaplacrd the motor was right at 30,000 the rear rotor had went out.

Yeah that rotor looks crazy with all the carbon did you drive it red line on a normal basis?

Yeah I did red line I have a my transmission it's kinda hard not to in this car.

Yeah the whole red line a day, to keep carbon away is BS for the most part. Even engines that were red lined daily are choked up by carbon. My first two motors were red lined everyday and then some and even with 3,000 or less mile oil changes they each suffered the same fate.

I hope this build goes well, you going to run the SOHN adapter and Premix from day on on this motor?

I'm not going to run an omp any more I'm just going to premix the car, plus I don't plan to use this as my daily driver anymore

Bump

Wow maybe i should just give my car an apple instead of the redline..........ill throw an apple in the trunk a day.....

Well, you're looking at about +7 HP gain per apple, so you do the math. The fermentation gasses could lead to lean conditions, so you'll have to tune appropriately.

Yes I have thought about that.this will be custom turbo build as well yes I will make sure this will be tuned properly

what kind of driving were you doing with this car when it was your DD?
lots of highway miles? or mostly city driving?

no this engine just mainly city and highway, no trip out of town on any thing of that nature at all. i didnt really do much with this motor, and yes o forgot to put this was one of my daily drivers

Did Elliot ever send you the photos of your coated bearings and oil pump?

Any pics of the rebuild?

Yes I did get the link for the pics of the bearings and oil pump. With all this work in th future I like to try to get at least 450hp it's a goal but well se what happends

The reason i asked is because i read somewhere on here that long road trips are good for the engine, i guess to really let it breath and get all that nasty carbon out. I may be wrong, but i'm about 95% sure that i read this somewhere here.

I let my car breath plenty times with 8000rpm shifts

some porting pics Turblown had sent me