Rotary-- Flame On!

[Brinkley]

^ winner! you forgot cheaper - reliability though i will admit

[Emre]

Removing emissions, custom intake/exhaust and a boost controller and that's about the extent of my 'tuning' for now. 290 hp out of the motor in basically stock form is NOT unbelievable and should be a good amount of power for fast e30 that originally came with 101hp.

That's the whole appeal of the 13B-REW engine, isn't it? With a stock engine and some very basic mods, you can match (or beat) Euro S50 power levels in a much smaller and lighter package with plenty of room to grow in the future.

Emre

[Brinkley]

I've never claimed I was going for sport compact or whatever crazy tune power.
STOCK FD makes 255 hp on STOCK twins. Thats what i have. Removing emissions, custom intake/exhaust and a boost controller and that's about the extent of my 'tuning' for now. 290 hp out of the motor in basically stock form is NOT unbelievable and should be a good amount of power for fast e30 that originally came with 101hp.
Also I think I'll be listening to the advice of the guy that's going to assemble my motor for me as far what power levels to run, etc, rather than R3V

[SamuraiSam]

sorry for omitting the "the" in my post. as you can tell i usually post very late at night. backtrail69 and i have a friend who is a rotard.. has owned like 4 FD's and at least 3 FC's, its hard to keep track. Anyways yeah they can make good midrange and high RPM power.

I dont know who said 11000rpm.... it's not that easy to get a rotary to rev that high, rotaries need PERFECTION when it comes to machine work in order to last. In Japan, Australia, New Zealand, if you try talking to someone about those damn unreliable rotaries, they will stare back at you with a confused face. They know how to build and tune them. In America there are only a few places that consistently turn out good motors and even fewer people that deliver safe good tunes.

What kind of turbocharger setup are you going with? I'm distantly acquainted with the current owner of Sport Compact Car's Project FD. He converted it to a GT35R single turbo setup (and has yet to address fueling properly), but it seems like a good match if you want a huge power output.

What kind of porting are you going to be doing on the motor? What kind of turbos?

Looking forward to seeing your build progress.

[mikeedler]

the noobies are out on the attack!! wow.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Look cowboy you made a fool of yourself with that comment. Just deal with it stop flaming people for busting you on it and put some god damn bumpers on that car!

Disclaimer : Above quote could lead to a dangerous tirade.

[direction88]

I really hope you are not as retarded as you come across as .

Look cowboy you made a fool of yourself with that comment. Just deal with it stop flaming people for busting you on it and put some god damn bumpers on that car!

[Brinkley]

Working to get this saaaaaaaaab outta my garage. after that will get back to e30.

[Ray Smoodiver]

http://www.europart.co.nz/index.php?D=4

i'll see if i can get some better pics.

[Young-E30]

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2007/06/rotary-powered-bmw-e30-320i-fitted-with.html

o and for the people out there who think this is a crazy idea check this out

http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=730443&page=1&pp=20

and a video

http://youtube.com/profile?user=ridin98civic

thats right a ls1 from a corvette and a civic = civette

[Brinkley]

thanks! i think its gonna be killer. bogged down on rust removal right now, but will be getting into the swap part soon.

[Young-E30]

awesome thinking, i can't wait to see it finished. Im also thinking of doing a similar swap. gl with everything man :up:

[Brinkley]

actually that looks like a 12A from the FB now that I think about it. streetported?

[Brinkley]

ahhhh you suck! god it stinks pulling all that out! my subframe bushings were completely shot so its probably for the best that i had to take it all out anyways

[Farbin Kaiber]

i cant wait to see your project Farbin, I seriously considered the s50 too bad, you are in Cali, we could see who's is faster when done. Have you gotten to the disc brakes yet?

It had disc brakes when I got it. BBK planed though.