Clive's 400 BHP Super GT RX-8 Race Car

[Arnie_O]

Clive would this be a little too extreme for weight saving

[clive]

Clive would this be a little too extreme for weight saving
[/IMG]

Excellent picture, one way of keeping cool I supose :Giggle

Phil, the puzzling thing is if Rod had a hand in the regs, last time I saw him he said "why not come and race with us" !

I wonder if news of your intentions scared em :3gears-rh

[Grant Monkhouse]

Why are the governing bodies so against rotaries? Is it because of the ability of making more power aka porting without increasing anything such as the capacity of the engine?

[Will66]

I reckon its because properly tuned race rotaries are a relatively cheap reliable horsepower at a fraction of the cost of a comparatively powerful piston motor.

[clive]

The Rotary "fear" goes back a long way.

In the seventy\'s Production saloons very nearly became Formula RX-3

The RX-3 was able to enter in the under 1300cc class and yet go for overall wins against the likes of 3,000 Ford Capri\'s !

The way I understand it, this power per cc led to the FIA bringing in an equivalency formula doubling the cc of the Rotary.

As far as I know the only other time this type of "fear" ever happen was when the Sierra Cosworth was king of Production saloons and the early Skyline came out, cleaned up in Australia so it promptly got banned over here before the first one ever even hit our shores.

[Grant Monkhouse]

By limiting cars to certain engines mean everyone ends up driving the same cars. Look at the time attack series, most go for an Evo, scooby or skyline and it becomes extremely boring to watch the same cars to around in circles. (Uh oh isn\'t f1 like this )

Lets hope they don\'t ban rotaries in your series Clive before you\'ve built it

I can see why people take an FD and drop a v8 in it to compete in racing series as you have the handling and an engine they can\'t complain about. You can even limit the power of a v8 by choking it but still keep the torqu the same.

[Will66]

Time Attack\'s ought to change now their allowing the Pro cars to run on slicks.  It should mean that RWD is in with a shout at big power levels.

[Bucko]

Happy new year Clive!! off to the Autosport Show to have a look @ what\'s running this year,I know 2 poss 3 of the big powered Skylines are fitting turbo restrictors,and changing back front mount rads for the Quaife series, there\'s Semsec,(Mainly Lydden) Intermarque,Thundersaloons,Eurosaloons, Castle Combe GT\'s,If I can get the budget together I would like to do the GT Cup, Having done a couple of Time Attack\'s I do really want to race,other then just timed runs.
What are your thought\'s now Mr Birley has stopped us entry our local championship!!

 Ph
was wanting to do this series myself this year :mad:
should also mention a rather strange fact Mr Birley used to race a Rotary too !! now work that out ?:2Confused

[clive]

Ph
was wanting to do this series myself this year :mad:
should also mention a rather strange fact Mr Birley used to race a Rotary too !! now work that out ?:2Confused

Sadly Rod has no Rotary affiliation :o, yes he used to race a heavily modded Gen I  in Thundersaloons but it was Cosworth powered, :Hammer

As far as I know even going back to the early seventy\'s when he raced a Prod Saloon Capri, his racers have always been Ford powered.

[clive]

I asked Rod a few years back if he knew where the Gen one was and he had no idea, however I had a search around and up it popped!

Turns out it\'s up n running and was at Goodwood roming up the hill in 2013

Bucko, can we be nosey about your car with maybe some pictures ?

[Bucko]

[ATTACH]55628[/ATTACH]

Pukka is completely to blame why i got involved with rotarys :Giggle so will put something more up later

[clive]

[ATTACH]55628[/ATTACH]

Pukka is completely to blame why i got involved with rotarys :Giggle so will put something more up later

Good to see you now have a thread up n running, keep the pictures and info coming, lots of people here will be interested :Thumbs-up

[Arnie_O]

Thinking I should start whoring my 8 build thread out on here now...
Didn\'t think the MRC was too interested in FE\'s

[RobMatthews]

Clive what are you doing with the fuel tank? oe or aftermarket?

[boosted]

Any more updates Clive...will you be out on grid for start of season?