The other rotary Westfield!

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Probably not given everything seems to be working ok now, just finishing blue book prep for the first race.

Slicks arrived from BMTR, they have been awesome in offering advice, Got some Avon hill climb rubber to stick on next week.

More exciting news is a barn find in my grandfather in laws lockup in the US...  A Mazda repu (the rotary pickup truck), seriously thinking about crating it over here, not sure I have seen one in the UK.  Going to go check it out in the summer to see if it is viable.

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Has anyone got good advice on silencer packing for rotaries given that I seem to be turning acoustafil to rock in a few hours?

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Hi mate my silencer was made by Torque Tecnique in Salisbury for me. Its been made repackable by them. I had a conversation about this with him and cant remember what he said he used but its been on 2 years and no issues. Worth giving them a call?

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Sorry for the lack of updates...  I have been flat out getting ready for the first event, which happened yesterday after an 18hr stint in the garage!

The result could not have been better, in my first event we finish 1st in class and 7th overall!  Will put some pictures and video up later today.

What a start to the season, the game has changed for me in the first event, now it's about winning!

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BDK0vH6DB0O/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDLi03SDB__/?taken-by=rivetracinguk

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Frikin hell mate welldone! Careful they dont move you up a class!

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And the video of my fastest run of the day...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plE2RKGqEes

[boosted]

Cool! Well done mate all that hardwork has payed off.

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Another successful day at the races - Goodwood circuit sprint.

What a place to race, it is balls out the whole way around and they have very nice banking complete with daffodils, I counted 1435 on the way round.  It almost makes the banks inviting!

Found out that 6th gear is still useless as we seem to hit a bit of brick wall around 135mph...  More power or less drag needed!

Any way my efforts were good enough for class win and 15th overall.

Few phone snaps, will get some vids up soon.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEiTd69DB4m/?taken-by=rivetracinguk
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEiGWmajB1o/?taken-by=rivetracinguk
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEjLDXtDBwl/?taken-by=rivetracinguk

[Casey]

  Congratulations - a great result!

A group of us with various rotaries had a trackday outing to Goodwood in Aug 2013 - Clive even took his RX-4 on track! It's a verypicturesque circuit, great fun to drive and extremely fast in places! Here's the topic covering that outing, with some pics and videos on pages 3 and 4;

http://mazdarotaryclub.com/forum/index.php?topic=78931.msg864067#msg864067

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And here is the fastest run of the day - Eased of for the final chicane as the previous runner had dropped his sump of oil on the exit and down the start finish straight.  Looking back at the video still plenty of time to be found with larger nadgers round the back of the circuit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibnqu8NNrzI

[Grant Monkhouse]

Driving that looks terrifying, like your doing 3,000,000 miles an hour everywhere.

How come your limited too 135? Running out of rpms?


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[Grant Monkhouse]

Driving that looks terrifying, like your doing 3,000,000 miles an hour everywhere.

How come your limited too 135? Running out of rpms?


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It's not so bad and Goodwood is one of the faster tracks around, with no run off, so I think that makes it look faster and more terrifying than it is. 

Just run out of power, another gear in the box.  The seven type cars have the aerodynamics of a brick (actually it is worse than a brick, but I wont get into that) so you need an awful lot of power to push them over 130mph just due to the drag.

Borg Warner 7670 for next season should deal with that little problem...  Now 150 mph might be knocking on the door of slightly concerning!

[Grant Monkhouse]

Is that to go on this motor? Is it an rx8 motor?


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