i love em to death...but im still waiting for the day to be in one....*cough cough*

another rotor diehard here!

my mate just bought an RX3 with 600 ponies at the rear treads. i love it!!

Good to see we have a few rotorheads on here
Nice!!

JET
When the 3 is tuned ill have over 200rwhp from a 12bp injected, should be fun
Hoping for closer to 220, but 200 would be ok.

NABOO
Ive heard a few loud cars in my time man
Heheheheeee
I scrutineer for CAMS, so i come across a few loud improved production rotors and stuff, lurvelee

SOOO81
What RX3 ya mate buy??


Anyone else built their own car on here??
Not modify, i mean build from the gorund up.

Mark

SOOO81!!

WANKEL is a tidy ride, sweet
Ive been in a few 600+rwhp cars and they are wikedly fast for the street.
As a rule of thumb i say 400rwhp for the street in a rwd is enough to get you into all sorts of trouble...


600rwhp on the street is plain stupid...


I want one

Mark!!

Okay, I'm tipping I'm a lot older than a lot of you guys - my first car was a 1975 RX-4 Coupe which I bought in 1982 (yes, 1982 really did exist) and kept until 1986.

Rotaries went through a really popular stage throughout the 80's and were seen as a viable alternative to a V8 and a lot of my friends had rotaries during that period.  I wasn't allowed to get a V8 so got a rotary instead (which dad later found out had the same performance as a V8 of the day).  Of course I pleaded ignorance & said I just liked the shape of the car.  It was an 'us vs them' battle back then between the V8 & rotary brigade much like the Holden vs Ford battle now.

Anyway, it started life as a stock 13B with 4 speed manual.  I put extractors & sports exhaust on first, then removed the vacuum control off the Hitachi 4 barrel carb and linked the primary & secondary throttle via copper wiring.  Sounds crude but it worked - made the carbie work like a double pumper meaning that all 4 barrels opened up when you floored it unlike the vacuum arrangement which needed 4000rpm to open the secondary ports.

Then after blowing the motor (which happens when there's no speed enforcement & you thrash the car all the time - ahh those were the days), I had an extend port done.  Bridge porting was common but they drove like pigs at normal speeds.  The extend port was smooth but with more torque & power everywhere.

Another common modification in those days was to put either a Ford 289 or 302 Windsor V8 with a C4 (3 speed) auto.  Manual gearboxes were too large to adapt.  Couldn't believe how much room there was to spare in the engine bay with the V8 & it really looked like it was meant to be there!

Anyway, I successfully dragged the car every Friday night at the 'Mole Factory' which was a vacant & undeveloped industrial estate in Campbellfield (Melbourne) off the Hume Highway.  Any of you with dads that are into cars (or were back in the day) will know about this place.  Once the cops busted everyone we would all go to 'Cherry Lane' in Altona & recommence activities. 

Ahhhh....the glory days.

GOD12A wrote:

SOOO81!!
Check the top of this thread, theres a vid of my RX3 sedan starting and i run a MY02 Liberty wagz  to work everyday.
Lance has started a workshop in NZ. Built some more tough cars, as he does
Apart from that i havent really spoken to him much since he moved back to NZ.
Mark

Ahh OK. Fair enough about Lance.

Your little 3 is absolutely melt in the mouth material! Absolutely delicious!! How I yearn to one day have a little RX2 S2 Sedan to build up....If I had three thumbs, they'd all be up.

Congrats on a super super neat ride you have there. 200hp ATW from a non-turbo is just something special!

LIB-04: However, I am not as old as yourself, I am a little older than some folk here. I myself used to be on the hate bandwagon when it came to the rotaries, but after a ride in one, I was an instant convert. I couldn't believe how much power these things can yield from such a compact package. It was (and still is to this date) tremendous.

The prices of these things now reflect their popularity. Definitely collector items now.

Mark - if you have any more videos (especially with Pendulum soundtracks!) POST 'EM UP!!

Keep up the love boys.....I'll be subscribing to this thread!

alex

Yeah another Rotor fan here:D

its a car which i HAVE to own before i die, i got a soft spot for the series 4 & 5 RX-7.

i got a mate with a gemini with 13BT  T3 turbo, 4" dump with screamer pipe..etc, it has only been done and put around 250-300kw at the rears.

and another mate who just got a datto 1600 for a project car it getting all straightnd out at the pannel beater atm but he has plans for a 13B Bridgy, gilly drive, interior retrim, simmons..etc

GO THE ROTORS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_y-35GUic0

XXB4XX wrote:

Which MOD do I speak to about getting a thread locked that I find "offensive" and a total waste of KB's on the WWW, ??
Please refer to my signature for further clarification..

listen to that!!!

XXB4XX wrote:

"4"
Even Ford now is running OHC. Welcome to the 80's!

OHV Technology was in its prime when your parents were in high school...

Oh, and this is a rotary thread....

XXB4XX wrote:

Its a ford motor.. you should know how to look at your V8's before you start replying..

its all rubbish to me anyways!