Hey Forum!! I have the short block together and back on the stand ready for intake etc.



I wanted to thank you guys for the help. Some of the help was intentional. Some of the help came from YOU having a problem and posting it. The answers that people gave you helped me.



I promise you, with out this forum there would not have been any chance in hell I would have been able to do this. I have no access to a shop since coming here to Cali.



My uncle owned a VW, Audi, Porsche dealership in Texas, so building bug motors was always real easy seeing as I had been sent to Wolfsberg for Tech Training in the 70s.



This Rotary was something really different, there are just things that you cannot know about this motor.



If you ask me now. I would encourage anybody to build a motor. Just get the video and join this forum.



Again, Thank you. This has been fun for me and my 12 and 9 year old boys



I hope it starts

Congrats! Keep us posted on the progress. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683827.gif

Holy **** 89 rag, you took your entire car apart.

Great job mang! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...>/beerchug.gif

Looks good enough to eat. That only makes me want to make my own engine even more.



Thanks fo sharing.



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Nice, im glad the forum could help, they have saved me plenty of times. Congrats

yep, anything worth doing is worth getting hammered and tearing the **** out of...or something like that https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

A few update pics. The motor is ready to drop in.



Check out the torque wrench=725 ftlbs



Somebody saw my currrent wheels and made a comment. I figured I would takea good pic. the basket holds my phone and PDA while I peddle down the 405

Here is my bike

HAHA, I love beach cruises, nothing like cruising the board walk with a beer in ur hand.

See those big wide bars??? Those are to push tourist off into the sand.

wow that is one big torque wrench. Looks expensive too. I did my the "not correct" way. I had a 400 ft/lb impact gun. Torque should be around 300 to 400... So i just tightened the nut until it didn't move from the impact gun...



Would've killed for that torque wrench...

The torque wrench made quick work of a usually difficult job. I have bud that has drilling rigs and he has all the huge tools you can shake a stick at.



The motor is the car and almost all is hooked back up. I stop because I had bad U-joints........how is that part of it all?



I had bad u-joints and I had bought the replacement ones in August. I didn't get around to switching the u-joints until this weekend........while the exhaust was already off. I figured why put the exhaust on if you need to take it off in the next few weeks. Anyway, I got the drive shaft out and hammered the u-joints out then started trying to put the new ones in. problem is that the guys at Rockford sent me the wrong size u-joints. (if you get some make sure you get the #430-10A) So now I am waiting for the next four days to go by and the new joints get here. So without the drive shaft in, no exhaust is going in and the motor is not going to get started.



I'll post more pics tomorrow