RE-SPECGARAGE

So today I tried to get my KA24de in the 240, but im missing a passenger side motor mount....AAAHHHHHH! So I said fuck the 240 and started working on the 7 after sitting for a whole year. I got the motor out of the car and tore it apart. This is my first rotary rebuild and i feel 100% confident on the rebuild. Its already 10x easier than rebuilding an SR...lol . Tomorrow i will clean it and fix the port job I got from a local rx7 builder. I was a little suspec on what kind of porting i got. The inside of the ports look good, but the shape of the large street port looks iffy. i will be fixing this in the next few days. I already ordered RA super 3mm apex seals and pineapple racing heavy duty gasket set. After the initial tear down we suspected to had warped seals after a long session on the dyno at PFsupercars. The car sounded like it lost compression, but it still made 421hp @ 16psi. Well that wasnt the case. One of the apex seals actually broke at the corner and it didnt tear the engine to pieces. I drove it like that for a good month and 2 events.....What a dummy!!!

the first session at PF. This dyno session left the engine with warpped apex seals, but I still drove it for about 4 months.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ballinnm.../5/q6tNKhM3iyA

This was after the second rebuild with low compression and a suspec apex seal failure:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ballinnm.../4/D2BifQDA_7M

Second time ever drifting this 420hp horse with no powersteering, a t78, and lack of skills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMiE2...eature=related

Loading pictures on flickr of the build.............

Dearhat

i've always liked this FD.

Fabrik8

All I read was:

apex seals

warped apex seals

lost compression

warped apex seals

suspected apex seal failure


www.youtube...

RE-SPECGARAGE

what it looks like after a year sitting.


421hp out of a 1.3l...lol




A little heat to get the 54mm nut lose.




Rotary porn about to happen




streetport looks a little suspec




The culprit.....apex seal is broken and it didnt crumble into a million pieces.




And there you go. Took a rotary apart in less than a day.

Silverbullet86

it truly amazes me that the seal behind the apex seal is RUBBER.

I<3Strippers!

amazing. i loved this bitch when it was drifting.

re_spec gonna put this FD on the map!

RE-SPECGARAGE

its a pretty simple engine. It only has 3 moving parts and its put together with rubber seals. High heat will kill these engine 95% of the time.

This will be my competition car for 2010.

the next couple of weeks you will see a cage go in, maybe a wide body, paint, and dope wheels.

WishIHadaSilvia

I am glad you're doing the FD again Danny!

I am surprised at how easy the LS1 is to take apart and put back together. I am excited for you to work on that too, haha!

BAN HAMMER

I still have no idea how the fuck a triangle in an oval can make 421 HP.

RE-SPECGARAGE

The LS1 FD will be built at the end of this year. This car is already set up to run this year as far as money goes. I have already invested a lot of this car for it to rot away in the yard. The engine will be back together by the end of this weekend and hopefully fire it up and drive it by the end of this month.

Lots of air being pushed in.