Clive's 3 Rotor 700BHP Monster Thunder Saloon Project

[clive]

Yet again so pleased to say the 3 Rotor ran faultlessly again with no issues at all completing qualifying and both races. Still running hardly any Turbo boost or revs, I just tried to stay out of trouble just putting mileage on the engine and at one stage even let myself drop down to 32nd out of the 43 starters, then picked them off to finish 20th, then in the second race a 15th finish which is OK for the tune the car has which is less power than last year ATM!. Out again tomorrow Racing on the shorter Indy Circuit with qualifying and two races then after that back on the Dyno with the engine run in to see some proper power.

I have now raced the car for some 9 years and with the help of the people around me who have supported me which I am so grateful for, I am looking forward to the next race at Snetterton with what should be a totally transformed car compared to what you see in the picture from 9 years ago.

[Casey]

Brilliant news Clive 

I'd hoped to get along tomorrow but Gwyn and I have a lot to do before we depart for our Airbnb in Chippenham on Wednesday. We haven't even unpacked from our cruise yet!

Good luck tomorrow and see you next weekend!

[clive]

Brands Report/ Good and bad today. Fan Belt snapped in Qualifying due to a bolt shearing on the alternator bracket, now fixed and that won't happen again!

In Sundays race itself 34 cars started, and I had fun getting up to 12th by the end, but realised there was an exhaust blow which turned out as you can see in the picture to be that the bolts had worked loose and broke the gasket, so with everything we set out to do as regards running the engine in and making sure all the modifications worked correctly, I called it a day.

Brought lots of positives away, 62 laps testing, 3 races and 2 qualifying sessions with no major issues first time out with not only the engine, but all the different custom ancillaries that were made plus major changes to the front and rear suspension that all seems to have worked.

Another positive was that I was just 3.7 seconds away from the winner's best lap with very little power ATM .

Once again thanks must go to Jim who drove down from Wakefield and supported and worked with me across two days to make all this happen. Thanks, must also go to Steve@DSengineering for much much machining etc, etc and Pip for building this amazing engine and tuning it for me. Last but very much not least, my Lisa for all the support over the last 10 months to help me make this 3 Rotor project happen.

Best of all now all is well, once the gasket is fixed, its off to Pips to find some real  3 Rotor Mazda POWER 

[clive]

One bit of good news was that I asked the car to be weighed while they were weighing the Jags and it was lighter than I thought even with the 3 Rotor.

"Allegedly" a standard RX-8 231 weight is 1425 Kg

The Race car came in at 1150 Kg 

[Eccentric shaft]

  

[clive]

All sorts of pictures are coming up from the weekend.

I like this one as it shows how I boxed in the Peugeot so he couldn't move which allowed me to pass both cars in one go, a little further down the straight   

(I almost forgot I was running in  )  

[clive]

Patience was the name of the game all weekend on reduced revs not letting the engine rev out and just about NO Boost to let the engine run in nicely so some lift and coast was also going on.

In the first race I let them all go dropping back to 32nd then worked my way up a little 

https://youtu.be/EEm4r8jXs10

[clive]

Now I've seen this, I can't wait to see what it goes like with some proper power and it dont sound bad either  😁


https://youtu.be/vvjdd0Z5fW0

[Casey]

Great videos! What a sound 

[clive]

Looking at building a new front brake set up, any one here got an RX-8 upright with a hub attached.
I don't need the disc or the calliper ?

[clive]

Race two

Many thanks to Philip for constructing these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQm_E9I21F0

[boosted]

Dieing to know the mapping power... whens she off to Pips

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[clive]

Dieing to know the mapping power... whens she off to Pips

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  Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuesday   

[boosted]

Dieing to know the mapping power... whens she off to Pips

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  Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuesday 

Im calling 713bhp.

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[Casey]

787bhp would be good