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What would be the best path to follow to learn how to work on rotaries and get paid for it?
I got bit by the rotary bug last year when I converted a gsl to a gsl-se. It took me a couple of months due to attending high school at the time with minimal help and prior knowledge of rotaries. Completing the swap was probably one of the greatest accomplishments in my life thus far. I'm a 19 year old currently attending the University of Kentucky, but I'm not satisfied with what I'm learning in college. I really want to be working on Mazda rotaries more than anything. Knowing that rotary engine schools are now nonexistent, are the only ways to get training on rotaries thru being an apprentice of an experience rotary tech or follow the road of trial-and-error of being self taught from the FSM as I've recently experienced? Would I have to first complete a training program at say UTI or Lincoln Tech in general auto tech and then locate a rotary shop to be trained at? Or am I wrong, does Mazda still have factory training for rotary engines? Any advice would be a great deal of help. Thanks. |
Originally Posted by SEDave' post='801857' date='Feb 14 2006, 08:20 PM
What would be the best path to follow to learn how to work on rotaries and get paid for it? I got bit by the rotary bug last year when I converted a gsl to a gsl-se. It took me a couple of months due to attending high school at the time with minimal help and prior knowledge of rotaries. Completing the swap was probably one of the greatest accomplishments in my life thus far. I'm a 19 year old currently attending the University of Kentucky, but I'm not satisfied with what I'm learning in college. I really want to be working on Mazda rotaries more than anything. Knowing that rotary engine schools are now nonexistent, are the only ways to get training on rotaries thru being an apprentice of an experience rotary tech or follow the road of trial-and-error of being self taught from the FSM as I've recently experienced? Would I have to first complete a training program at say UTI or Lincoln Tech in general auto tech and then locate a rotary shop to be trained at? Or am I wrong, does Mazda still have factory training for rotary engines? Any advice would be a great deal of help. Thanks. im in the same boat man sorry i can not offer help |
well depending how you want to do it. basic mechanic training to get you in the door somewhere and show you can work on cars to begin with, maybe the mazda dealer and get sent to the training eventualy. If you had a rotary shop nearby you could start at the bottom and work up. basicly it all comes down to showing experience and that you know what your doing, if you cant prove that then your stuck cleaning floors and doing oil changes.
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Only thing I can add.
Rotaries are only unique with the engine, not the entire car. So having superior knowledge of other cars will help you out a whole lot. Look at PFSupercars located in Frederick, MD. Ray(owner of the shop) caters to RX-7's(all gens), Supra's, and Team Lexus' IS300's. I am in the same boat pretty much also, but I am older than you, and would be happy working on any type of car, not just rotary specific. |
just remember after coming home from working on other peoples cars all day are you really gonna want to go wrench on yours?
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Originally Posted by spaceman Spiff' post='801909' date='Feb 15 2006, 01:54 AM
just remember after coming home from working on other peoples cars all day are you really gonna want to go wrench on yours? |
everyone around here started with a cheap broken car, put a motor in it and resold it. then got another one, and another one and another one, until you're at the dealership enough buying stuff they offer you a job, then after a while you can open a side buisness, then make it a full time gig and build bum engines for banzai....
its a headrush i know |
I did not enjoy the pineapples broken off in my ass!
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Buy old car, have "professional" shop build new engine, return broken misrepresented new engine, receive replacement engine, tear down inspect, discover missing pieces, say to hell with "professional shop in NW", buy engine dyno, accumulate lots of parts, never assemble them https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png
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Originally Posted by banzaitoyota' post='801968' date='Feb 15 2006, 09:44 AM
Buy old car, have "professional" shop build new engine, return broken misrepresented new engine, receive replacement engine, tear down inspect, discover missing pieces, say to hell with "professional shop in NW", buy engine dyno, accumulate lots of parts, never assemble them https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png thats not the way its done around here! except for that lots of unassembled parts bit |
Originally Posted by j9fd3s' post='801981' date='Feb 15 2006, 01:25 PM
thats not the way its done around here! except for that lots of unassembled parts bit what about car without an engine and complete fresh rebuilt ported engine sitting 200 miles away for a few months lol https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683664.gif |
Originally Posted by vosko' post='802093' date='Feb 15 2006, 08:24 PM
what about car without an engine and complete fresh rebuilt ported engine sitting 200 miles away for a few months lol https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683664.gif i built a motor in 99 that didnt go into the car until 2004.... |
i say just buy some engines, rebuild em, put em in your car, make some power, show friends
blow them up, make better motors, more power, show more people, blow t hem up do it over and over and over, keep showing people, help out people, start charging little $ etc i have people call me daily for help / opinons. unforunaly most of the rotary people around here are diy'ers, hwoever i have made a turbo v6 eclipse, helped turbo'ing a subie rs, am helping make a 200ish hp 1g mr2 etc etc. Just start somewhere, and keep at it, -Jacob |
Yeah I basically have been working on cars and machinery since I've been able to walk.
Eventually I started working for a Rotary Shop, but was turned off on how they treated customers and their cars. So now I'm building motors and working on RX-7 myself. I'm soon going to have to quit my day job just to keep customers happy lol. |
I learned alot on my own, at first, by rebuilding my own motor in Highschool, then as much as I could from the resources available in North America, off the shelf books etc etc. Then I went to Japan 3 times, met some of the worlds best, worked for a couple of high end tuning shops over there and started to learn Japanese to read the books for the finer points of the motor. Now I'm just dangerous...https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png..
All the best guys I know for rotary knowledge though, worked directly for mazda in Hiroshima as factory mechanics, and I think working for mazda at some point would give you alot of insight into the cars you just wouldnt get anywhere else. |
Young people are so impatient these days
If you ever become a "rotary mechanic" it won't happen for YEARS. Get an apprenticeship and a mechanics licence first. |
daily drive an RX7...youll get plenty of practice soon enough
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