Well as a few of you know i recently had the misfortune of dealing with Hayward Rotary and after paying £4K for an engine build and some minor work i have come to the conclusion that their stage 2 port with ceramic apex seals was a waste of money as compression tested at 5.2 after 3000 miles and also no quicker than my old engine which is in my mates car.
So now to start again, firstly ive dropped my car down to Frankys Speedshow run by Jay Murray and Matty Johns and they have agreed to supply and fit the Kamekazi wide body kit and paint it in candy manderin orange over a silver base with liquid glass. And the roof will be done in real carbon fiber.
The wheels are 20" AXE EX20's with some serious width to them so i can put the power down.
The interior is having a full retrim also at Franky's Speedshop
Once this has been done the car is being delivered to Ben at Rotary Rev's who has ordered me a triple rotor 20b n/a which is currently running 450bhp on a PP, after running for 6 months we will be looking at a rebuild with a turbo which im told could give me 650bhp.
I will update this thread as i go along with various news and pictures.
Before we start
Front and back bumpers gone along with the wings and fitted to a mates car, just been told the wide kit has just been shipped.
20B PP N/A.... :P me likes...
I saw that car at Japfest, I like it :)
Looking forward to the updates and pic,s ;)
This is a link to the actual engine Ben at Rotary Rev's has bought for me. its the one in the FC3s
https://youtu.be/TrBxMEoQyKw?t=1m34s
Wow that fb is awesome....and that fc engine ....no idea what there saying though...like takashi castle on wheels.
Epic project your taking on keeps us informed with a build thread and piccys please.
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Well my wide body kit has turned up today ;D ;D ;D
Keep us posted, looks like its going to be one very different RX-8,
Well just had an update from Frankys Speedshop, I've had new powder coated subframes fitted ,Poly bushed all round and Tein Mono 3 way adjustable suspension fitted.
The whole interior has been sent off for a complete retrim. should have the car back on the 21st of feb but the down side is the engine transplant isn't gonna happen till next year as i wanna use my car for show season.
Well yet another quick update ,I've just agreed to buy a VERY SPECIAL Petit Supercharged engine , don't wanna say too much about the engine apart from its been extremely well built an modified as has the supercharger.
Below is a pic of the subframes coming off ready to be replaced.
Bit of an update on my car.
Cool....going to town i see...i saw some of this on Frankys vlog.
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Good to see somebody getting real serious about their RX-8, great pics, keep em coming :sign0098:
just got these pictures sent to me.
Just saw those pics in Facebook, and thought that someone is getting really nice looking engine :D
"Booster" and everything. So jealous ;)
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Well here is the colour my car is gonna be.
Very nice teaser....
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Me likes :)
:13: Looking niiiiiiiiiiiice :icon_thumleft:
Looking forward to showing this car on the MRC stand at JDM
engines now in lol
It will be great to see this up and running.
There don't seem to be many successful FI RX8 around.
You certainly seem to be in good hands and paying attention to detail.
Nice one.