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General => Rotary and General Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Will66 on December 12, 2012, 12:54:23 PM

Title: You know all those V8 converted rotaries?
Post by: Will66 on December 12, 2012, 12:54:23 PM
Well this went the other way.

13BT in a Corvette!

(http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg632/invinciblerx/DSCF9932.jpg)
Title: You know all those V8 converted rotaries?
Post by: steve garbutt on December 12, 2012, 01:01:38 PM
that looks positively lost in there :D
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Post by: Brett on December 12, 2012, 01:50:05 PM
What series \'vette is that?

Did the conversion get completed?

Where are the videos?

Why has no one offered me a go?

etc etc
Title: You know all those V8 converted rotaries?
Post by: Will66 on December 12, 2012, 01:56:24 PM
It\'s a C4 in the states and I found it on RX8Club.  Other than that I don\'t know much about it.  Just think of the colossal size turbo you could fit out in front of it, as well as a mahoosive intercooler.  You could make loads of power.
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Post by: Grant Monkhouse on December 12, 2012, 02:32:21 PM
Where the rest of the engine?!!!! There is a thread on rx7 club too with an old muscle car with a 13B turbo in it. Sounds funny watching a muscle car drive past on the videos going brap brap brap, when it should go grog grog grog with a big cam in it
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Post by: shaunwil on December 12, 2012, 06:37:38 PM
Theres room for 4 more rotors :D

Lovely :p

Shaun
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Post by: B.Martin on December 12, 2012, 09:33:42 PM
I\'m not getting involved in this debate again...:Nono!
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Post by: Grant Monkhouse on December 13, 2012, 08:11:57 AM
Check this one out:D
http://m.rx7club.com/showthread.php?p=11275809#post11275809
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Post by: B.Martin on December 13, 2012, 08:25:20 AM
It\'s cool, but I don\'t get it. The dude has an FD with a Grand national engine and a Chevy with a rotary? I really struggle to comprehend it.
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Post by: Brett on December 13, 2012, 08:29:06 AM
Just realised how high that engine is sitting in the C4?
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Post by: Grant Monkhouse on December 13, 2012, 09:32:12 AM
Quote from: B.Martin;844414It\'s cool, but I don\'t get it. The dude has an FD with a Grand national engine and a Chevy with a rotary? I really struggle to comprehend it.

Because he can.

I recent watch a video where a guy had put a Hemi in a 55 Chevy bel air why? I hear you ask because he can. And pis s all the Chevy guys off. Also because its his car and hemis are awesome
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Post by: B.Martin on December 13, 2012, 10:18:59 AM
Yeah but putting a different V8 into another pony car is fairly understandable, but \'just because you can\' doesn\'t always mean you should. I guess if you fancy wasting some cash for something a bit different its your choice, just i personally don\'t understand the logic.

I guess all i\'m saying is, i wouldn\'t do it...

Like i\'ve said before, buy a C5 corvette instead of putting a V8 into a RX-7. Hell buy an RX-7 instead of putting a rotary into a C5 corvette. It just seems a bit daft, sure someone might prefer the look of one over the other etc and if (as previously mentioned) you\'ve got money to burn then go... Be different and do something to \'pis s the purists off\' but seems a hell of a lot of hassle just to be a transplant troll.
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Post by: Will66 on December 13, 2012, 10:34:14 AM
The guy that is putting a 426 Hemi into a 55 Chevy is Mike Finnegan who is an Editor for Hot Rod Magazine.  


55 Chevy with a Hemi link in case I embed the video wrong. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lATwQ7wkhTs)
Title: You know all those V8 converted rotaries?
Post by: Grant Monkhouse on December 13, 2012, 10:41:12 AM
He\'s that\'s the one. Watch their YouTube videos when they come up.

Ben you do realise that puttin anything other than a Chevy engine in a Chevy is worse than a rotary v8 swap. Having a mopar motor in a Chevy could well be as bad as sleeping with your gfs mum.
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Post by: B.Martin on December 13, 2012, 02:11:34 PM
If your a yank perhaps, but i\'m not. I know who Finnegan is, i am subscibed to hot rod mag ;)
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Post by: Will66 on December 13, 2012, 02:31:58 PM
Roadkill is one of the best Video series on youtube.  Grant you should do Drag week in the RX4!
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Post by: B.Martin on December 13, 2012, 04:39:58 PM
Quote from: Grant Monkhouse;844428He\'s that\'s the one. Watch their YouTube videos when they come up.

Ben you do realise that puttin anything other than a Chevy engine in a Chevy is worse than a rotary v8 swap. Having a mopar motor in a Chevy could well be as bad as sleeping with your gfs mum.

Oh and you get major man points for sleeping with your girlfriends mum! :Giggle
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Post by: Grant Monkhouse on December 13, 2012, 06:43:13 PM
Quote from: Will66;844456Roadkill is one of the best Video series on youtube.  Grant you should do Drag week in the RX4!
That would be so cool. Some serious cars in there!! The pro class running 6s and drives 1,000 miles on roads!! They would be pi ssed at a rotary competing!
Quote from: B.Martin;844469Oh and you get major man points for sleeping with your girlfriends mum! :Giggle

I know, my gfs mum is fit...... So is her sister.....
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Post by: B.Martin on December 13, 2012, 08:41:47 PM
Well if you can nail all 3 you more or less win the game that is called life.
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Post by: re japi on December 14, 2012, 04:03:34 AM
lol... But true, then you really can make statement "I´m the MAN" to everyone... ;)
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Post by: Will66 on December 14, 2012, 08:40:41 AM
Quote from: Grant Monkhouse;844475That would be so cool. Some serious cars in there!! The pro class running 6s and drives 1,000 miles on roads!! They would be pi ssed at a rotary competing!

If I win the lottery, I\'m going to build a Rover SD1 Dragster with a Rover V8, keep it road legal and attempt Hot Rod Drag Week.  Given the top cars are basically Pro-Mod spec imagine if you could get something like the Pac Performance MX-6 road legal and run in the Unlimited Class.  That would be awesome.  Hell, they let a British Guy in a Bedford van with a C20LET motor in it run this year.
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Post by: Grant Monkhouse on December 14, 2012, 09:46:36 AM
PAC run on methanol so it wouldn\'t be road legal anywhere :( :(
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Post by: B.Martin on December 14, 2012, 10:54:35 AM
I\'m gonna buy a first generation Camaro for my next car i think, but i\'ll really miss being able to take corners with confidence and fluidity. I\'m thinking its worth it though just becuase of how damn cool they are!
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