Finally my project thread

FD3S Efini · April 26, 2011, 10:54:01 PM

Ok this has been a long time coming so here goes,

My plan is to have my FD half bridge ported and run about 400bhp on the stock twins on a non sequential setup but still keep it road legal so i could have a nice blast in this lovely weather,

First thing i did once i had this idea was to do lots and lots of research and i found out that only a few people have done this in the past so it should be an interesting build,

Well fisrt thing i had top decide was whether to pull apart the block that was already in my car and was rebuilt only 13000 miles ago, decided against this as it would be better financially to sell the engine and buy another engine,

First thing to do then would be to remove the engine that was in there

Next thing to do after that would be to get 2 engines, one as a bare block and another with all the ancilleries still attached so they could be fitted to the new engine,

We stripped down the first engine to find that it was in brilliant condition, both rotor housings were re useable admitedly there was some slight scoring but nothing major at all,

all the other plates were in good condition aswell so could be reused, the rotors were in very good condition aswell so pretty much everything could be used which was incredibly lucky,

stripped down the 2nd engine which had all the ancilleries on it, most of it was done in the boot of my poor laguna haha but managed it,

2nd engine was pretty damaged both front and rear plates were scored pretty badly center plate was scored aswell, e-shaft was damaged, a rotor was damaged

But by some form of amazing luck the rotor housings were in mint condition no scoring at all which is an awesome start,

Next on the list of things to do is to put some money together for a rebuild kit, i will be going for the Atkins Rotary Master Rebuild kit with solid corner seals and i will be using Mazda stock 2mm 2 piece tips which i have already got ready to go,

Here are a few pics of what has been done already

And now here is my dining room which has been turned into my engine room much to the dismay of my wife lol

Mir · April 27, 2011, 01:23:51 AM

looks very interesting thread.... Keep up the good work

I am loving the enthusiasm..

Good Luck

Syed

FD3S Efini · April 28, 2011, 10:19:12 PM

Ok started to clean a few of the parts starting with the rotors and its a big task lol i have started using plastic brushes

but that isnt working very quickly but on the plus side there isnt a single mark where im cleaning :Thumbsup!

I think tomorrow i will have to buy myself a nice brass brush and scrub the crap outta the rotors

Will update tomorrow with how clean the rotors are

Oh and playing on the laptop is the DIY RE-13b just to keep me entertained :Thumbsup! lol

FD3S Efini · April 29, 2011, 09:54:26 PM

Only a small update been cleaning the rotors on and off

Found that carb cleaner is carbons cryptonite (name kinda gives it away lol)

Also using the smallest brass brush in the world since it seems most hardware stores dont sell them lol but hey i overcame it

Anyways heres a couple of pictures

Oh and here is my weapon of choice :rollin:rollin:(

787b · April 29, 2011, 10:10:10 PM

awesome work

captainbizzaro · April 29, 2011, 11:12:31 PM

Top marks for dismantled rotor on dining table shot, and bonus point for gearbox on the dining room floor.

Fair play for taking it on.

FD3S Efini · April 30, 2011, 07:50:03 PM

Iv only been doing the rotor faces at the mo, i will start the sides tonight cleaning all the side seal grooves and corner seal holes and also where the apex seal sits and hopefulley it wont take me that long at all then i will have 4 lovely clean rotors (2 in the engine, 1 for sale soon and 1 as an ornament to my wifes delight lol) so here are my clean faces as they are at the moment

shaunwil · April 30, 2011, 08:49:49 PM

One thought going through my head would be how much is a short block 20b Crank at this moment in time

Looking like good progress !

Shaun

FD3S Efini · April 30, 2011, 10:24:24 PM

Part of me is tempted but my bank balance wont alow it lol

Kris

FD3S Efini · May 01, 2011, 03:21:58 PM

Ok so finally finished cleaning the rotors, cleaning the faces was the hardest part, the sides and all the intricate stuff was easy in comparison,

So here are the final pictures (hopefully) of the clean rotors, i will take them to get inspected just to ensure that they are clean enough

and here are the 2 rotors that i will be using on my new engine, they are both B weights aswell and they both came from the same engine aswell

Will have an E weight rotor for sale soon so keep your eyes peeled in the for sale section