Jeff20B

Monochromatic. It can see infrared and even a little ultraviolet.

Jeff20B

I picked up Jimlab's drillpress this evening. Cool guy! Very well organized garage (compared to mine). I also got to check out his soon-to-be V8 powered FD. It's the second V8 conversion I've ever seen, and this one looks like it's going to be really great when done. The other was a 1st gen with a dead V8 in it lol.



I'll try to get it set up tonight, and maybe another B&W pic soon. Don't you just love pic noir?

j9fd3s

yah jim's car is gonna turn out really really nice



mike

Jeff20B

Yeah, it's nothing like the semi hack job I saw a couple saturdays ago. A running V8 in a 1st gen is ok (ew pistons!), but a dead V8 in a 1st gen is laughable. And people say rotaries are unreliable! Hah! The guy got it as a running conversion. Then it somehow stopped running on him. I don't know the whole story, but something just didn't seem right about it (and I don't mean the obvious piston engine-in-a-rotary car thing). The guy also had a dead GSL-SE that he was letting the engine bay rust away (aluminum had that white rust all over it, and steel, well, you know).



Anyway, Jim's car looks like it's been done correctly from the beginning. Infact, it was up on jack stands with no tires or suspension (only aftermarket shocks hanging there), the engine bay was stripped, no engine or tranny, no rearend (the rear subframe was sitting under the car), and all the various 'big' parts were placed here and there with easy access to pretty much everything. So in his car's state of incompletion, it's still way better than that 1st gen. Heh, even I wouldn't mind working on his car.

Jeff20B

I've got a question for you guys about the oil fitting near the CAS on top of the front plate. It's a turbo supply tube, right? Since it's under pressure from the main oil passage that runs under the MAZDA 20B part of the rotor housings (it's part of the whole dreaded oil leak of death on S3 12As), could I theoretically install my return line from the oil cooler there? I could then use the oil filter blockoff by itself and save some room (it's near some brake lines that won't take kindly to bending). The reason why I ask is the back of my engine will be under the firewall.



My thought is the front rotor would get oil first instead of the rear one. Could this be potentially bad for the engine? The threaded hole is currently blocked by an oilpan drain plug (heh, same thread pitch).

setzep

You need to use the ones at the rear. The pressure relief valve is at the rear and needs to see the same oil pressure/flow as the rest of the engine. If you were to simply cap off the rear two ports you woulden't have a relief except for the front one but thats set super high incase of oil cooler blockage and pressure drop through the oil cooler(s). Also the port in the front plate is too small to deal with the volume of oil that needs to pass through it.

Well.... maybe if you made a custom fitting to go into the old turbo feed that is full flow and had a external relief it may work.

j9fd3s

its too bad the cosmo doesnt use the bottom oil feed like the older motors



mike

setzep

Yeah, if it wasn't for that damn auto starter they put in it's place.



That would be nice, send one oil line back there and make a adapter manifold that hooked the two ports under the oil filter pedestal together. Then all you'd have to do is run a remote mount oil filter.

Jeff20B

I was going to run the RB blockoff so oil can flow from one hole over into the other and down to the rear pressure reg: http://www.racingbeat.com/resultset....rtNumber=11822

Racer X

Nice.Have you come up with a better way yet jeff?Remember the more oil the better.