Rotus Project Build

[Jamie R]

I'd love to turn up to that.....

However I think they would wince more at the fact that the roof, boot lid and doors are the only bits that are as they left Norfolk lol

[Casey]

Really taking shape nicely Jamie, great work 

BTW is this a Lotary car? 

[Jamie R]

Lol

Nope Rotus Wankelan

[re japi]

Looks good 

Btw, I like this thread, nice to see some doing his car from ground up basically, and doing something different 

[Jamie R]

Awww fanx princess

[Jamie R]

First tail light bucket off the mould tonight.....

Made a plywood former, shaped, primed, sanded, waxed.

I hammered 2 x cut down panel pins with the spike pointing up.

When I lay the glass over the top it will produce 2 x drill starts in the product, saves marking it out for the mounting holes, and its repeatable for the other side.

More cutting of the shell to graft in the new buckets.

Another productive evening, we like that.

[clive]

Ow, come on, we want to see what they look like on the car 

[Jamie R]

Sorry that's as far as I've got, I'll upload more this week when I've made more progress

[Jamie R]

Here ya go Clive....

Not got all the rads blended in on the edges of the buckets, but theyre on.

Im back to fitting the exhaust again............ I need to rethink that too.

Ive learned a lot since joining this forum, and I need to re-route the pipe work near the diff. Ive never been 100% happy.

So I have a question. I have a resonator fitted as youll see on the last pic, but its going to hit the floor and annoy me so that needs relocating too.

Does anyone know if there is an optimum place for a resonator to be positioned in relation to the silencer and the headers? Can it go just before the silencer?

Thanks in advance

[re japi]

Looks awesome, good job mate 

But one thing comes to mind, heat control. Rotarys generates lots of heat. You have to figure out how to get that heat out of engine bay. Also, under floor, seems a tight fit. Hopefully it wont melt that classfibre...

[Jamie R]

Cheers bud

Zircotec the headers and decat pipe.

Everything else is exhaust wrap and self adhesive ceramic sheet.

Some NACA ducts on the underfloor feeding air into the exhaust tunnel

I don't have many options, this car is tiny. There is zero room.

The only other thing I can do is run the pipe straight out the bonnet and put some flaps on the ends like the vertical stacks on the American trucks lol

[Jamie R]

Here ya go jarno.

Check it out

https://www.google.com/search?q=japanese+custom+cars&client=safari&channel=ipad_bm&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiko8H89fniAhWSmFwKHeXEAhYQ_AUoAXoECAsQAQ&biw=768&bih=928#imgrc=USjPHKUE2drj6M

https://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/your-guide-to-the-japanese-car-culture-54990_1.jpg

[re japi]

Here ya go jarno.

Check it out

https://www.google.com/search?q=japanese+custom+cars&client=safari&channel=ipad_bm&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiko8H89fniAhWSmFwKHeXEAhYQ_AUoAXoECAsQAQ&biw=768&bih=928#imgrc=USjPHKUE2drj6M

https://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/your-guide-to-the-japanese-car-culture-54990_1.jpg

Oh crap

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[re japi]

Cheers bud

Zircotec the headers and decat pipe.

Everything else is exhaust wrap and self adhesive ceramic sheet.

Some NACA ducts on the underfloor feeding air into the exhaust tunnel

I don't have many options, this car is tiny. There is zero room.

The only other thing I can do is run the pipe straight out the bonnet and put some flaps on the ends like the vertical stacks on the American trucks lol

Ok, I see. Then there should be no problem

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[kev-yorks]

I've only experience with turbo motors, 3 inch systems and quite a bit of overlap so strong exhaust pulses Jamie but on those the resonator seems to work best around 24inch from the downpipe. My default system now tends to be a flexi section right behind the downpipe into the resonator the pics of a larger 1 into 2 resonator system but you'll get the idea.