Looking to Join the Rotary World
10-18-2011, 09:51 AM
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Took her for her first successful test drive since gutting the engine bay last night!! So excited. Too bad the battery is now shot.. LoL
With no emissions she smokes a little more during warm-up but man she wants to pull sooo bad.... It's taking a lot to keep my foot off the gas!!! HA!
With no emissions she smokes a little more during warm-up but man she wants to pull sooo bad.... It's taking a lot to keep my foot off the gas!!! HA!
06-14-2012, 12:10 PM
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Re: Looking to Join the Rotary World
Holy crap it has been a while since I posted on here....
Soooo I've been busy.. expanded our online parts business to a full fledged performance garage after about 10 months in business. That has kept me VERY busy which has taken away from my FD time.. :-/ Good news is I now have lifts and air tools!!! :-D
Mechanic and I tore her down and finished the non-sequential conversion (welded the manifold, etc) and I also swapped in a wrapped down-pipe and new mid-pipe (no more cats!!). The sound is just awesome now! I love the rotary drone!!!
I have sourced pretty much every part I need and we will soon be doing the auto > manual swap. I also purchased a second 13b short block for $50 (read that right) and I have a machine shop dying to get his hands on it to play with.
Down side right now is that I get a relatively consistent stream of bubbles in my coolant filler neck if I leave the lid off.... Champagne test failed so I likely have a coolant seal issue... *sigh* Plan is to rebuild before too long and go big single. :-) She does still sound amazing and we got the idle problems fixed and she no longer smokes like a freight train on start up!
Here's an odd thing for you guys... My tach rarely ever worked. I just assumed it was the solder points in the cluster... We finished that non-sequential and now it works perfect!! Anyone else have that happen? I'm guessing maybe it was a bad ground.
Soooo I've been busy.. expanded our online parts business to a full fledged performance garage after about 10 months in business. That has kept me VERY busy which has taken away from my FD time.. :-/ Good news is I now have lifts and air tools!!! :-D
Mechanic and I tore her down and finished the non-sequential conversion (welded the manifold, etc) and I also swapped in a wrapped down-pipe and new mid-pipe (no more cats!!). The sound is just awesome now! I love the rotary drone!!!
I have sourced pretty much every part I need and we will soon be doing the auto > manual swap. I also purchased a second 13b short block for $50 (read that right) and I have a machine shop dying to get his hands on it to play with.
Down side right now is that I get a relatively consistent stream of bubbles in my coolant filler neck if I leave the lid off.... Champagne test failed so I likely have a coolant seal issue... *sigh* Plan is to rebuild before too long and go big single. :-) She does still sound amazing and we got the idle problems fixed and she no longer smokes like a freight train on start up!
Here's an odd thing for you guys... My tach rarely ever worked. I just assumed it was the solder points in the cluster... We finished that non-sequential and now it works perfect!! Anyone else have that happen? I'm guessing maybe it was a bad ground.
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