Rotary Hat Trick

[peterwolds]

John thats a tidy car is Petes vert i read his thread about rebuilding/painting from scratch before it went up for sale he doesnt do things by halves.Glad my fc came up before pete put his up for sale never had a minutes trouble (tempting fate now)

[Prof]

The first of my \'what\'s this\' pics.
 
Why is this little pipe just left in the big pipe. Can\'t see this doing anything?
 
doesn\'t look like the best place to mount a boost control either.

That looks like it\'s coming from the Air Control Valve (carburetor looking thing on the side of the lower manifold). If it\'s what I think it is, then that\'s the relief air pipe - normally that should vent through a silencer (the infamous anti-moo valve) under the drivers side headlight.
 
It could be left venting to air - but their might be some odd noises :Giggle

[grinder]

its a well known car to be honest - i owned it a while back , and then Nas ( turboIInuttah ) and then pete - and then alex

so its been around a bit !!

if you look on my website - in the my cars bit - there are some pics of it when i got it !

Stu

[pbailey]

Well John I see you were not able to resist, but who can blame you ! It looks great in the photos. Carl told me a week or two back that temptation had reared its ugly head. But putting in a V8 surely not with all your experience with rotaries or then again ! Welcome back
 
Peter B (RIOT RX)

[johnf]

Didn\'t make the connection until I saw you sig.

Nice to hear from you, trust you are well and the car is still putting a smile on you face.

john

[johnf]

Compression test didn\'t go that well.

Used a piston one with the valve removed - couldn\'t get a reading on either front or back.

So - what are the odds on both sides going at the same time?

Thought it may be the tester but connected to an air line it works fine.

Been lent a camera on a wire - cool eh. Thanks to Craig [tinker27]

I\'ll be off to see what I this will tell me shortly.

[Prof]

I\'d of thought you\'d see something - did the compression tester seal in the plug hole ok ?
 
That amount of pressure will find the first hole it can

[grinder]

can you turn it over by hand ( grab the belts at the front and turn it )

if you take the plugs out - listen for nice even "pssssts"

if your getting nothing at all from both front and back .. then im impressed

[johnf]

Be impressed

Put the camera in both and they both look shot.

Still quite difficult to see but there looks like missing/damaged tips on both.

Looks like worst case scenario - Take it out strip it down and see where I go from there.

I expected to have to strip it, just depends how bad the internal damage is.

So who\'s local, taken these out before and fancies a bit of cash?

[grinder]

shame your not more local - i would have offered to at least help

[pbailey]

John, sorry to hear about the engine in the new car. RIOT is running well, cared for by Carl and putting a smile on my face when ever I take her out for a run, except when coming home in the dark and rain the other night.
I have never driven a car with such poor headlights (scary) so have ordered a set of Clives HID headlight kits. Look forward to seeing pics of you, top down driving the new motor. Do you still have the two rear sill extentions in black that you had when I bought RIOT?
 
Peter B (RIOT RX)

[pdtaylor18]

Glad you got the car and at last it has gone to a good home. The compression test by Pip was mid 7\'s all round so it was a hard pill to swollow when I learnt he had blown it. 1st thing is to check to turbo, make sure that was not the cause and then prepare for the strip. Carl did me a very good deal on my engine and he would be the best person to send the lump to to get rebuilt (thats if there\'s anything left of it). The car did spend some time at Pips for a boost problem and idle that seemed to come and go. Also lots of money to Pip which never cured the problems.  The ECU cured all of that in the end which I sent the previous owner. That ECU is a chipped one and came originally from my present orange one and was a really good ECU. I think the previous owner just wanted too much out of the car for which it was never really capable off in its almost standard fit.  Too much boost killed that engine with a lead right foot and hence the need to check the turbo to see if that caused both rotors to sustain damage or failure.
Be nice to see that car back on the road.

[johnf]

Hi Pete

I bought it expecting the worst and I don\'t think I\'ll be disappointed.

I\'m going to stick the camera in again tomorrow and see if I can get a better evaluation.

It\'ll have to come out but I\'d like some idea of the damage extent.

I\'m assuming it\'s quite difficult to wreck both front & back?

I\'ve attached a pic of the ECU, is this the one that went with the car?
Seems quite a lot of \'splicing\' gone on.

[grinder]

crickey !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that could be down to the S4 loom mating to a S5 ecu .. but not sure

[Prof]

Well the green wrapped loom - looks like someone\'s done a tidy up on that bit - but those splice connectors - they are iffy to say the least - best splices are proper locking connectors with solders terminals, or if you don\'t want a connector in line, then twist and solder or crimp and solder the joined wires and heatshrink over the top - not going to come unstuck then or deteriorate with corrosion over time.
 
Is the small number of wires that\'s trailing off to the right going to a boost controller of gauge of some kind ?