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^^^^ That would be great Mark. After having just spoken to racing beat in the US about building a motor for me I am not so sure I want to sell all my organs plus any furure unborn children to have one of their engines. I am sure they are top notch, but circa 20-25k for a rotor engine build (complete long motor with turbo etc) is a bit beyond my budget.

But at the same time, happy to spend decent money to get something I hope will be reliable. Tassie is just too far to go for me to have a mechanical early on.

While RB did have a bit of a tech edge in the past with screw in ports, cooling mods to housings and so forth - even if they did use their alloy plates, ianettis they usually recommend, 2 piece eccentrics and so forth, that's well OTT.

consider going japanese? they know how to make a good rotor motor. had my FD RZ's motor built in japan at a shop called pre-stage. was bloody quick (in build time) and performed very well. Cost was reasonable too.

There's no secret sauce in any country - although some of the locals practicing the art here probably would have been more suited to wild west blacksmith occupations. Your ex-RZ went ker-blammo very shortly after the sale.

I am suffering the same thing..

i am really trying to get excited about building an early rotor to run in classic but am finding it hard to get really excited about it. Probabaly should have just kept the evo :(

One of the long time classic rotor guys did the switch this year, damaging the now 30k + Rx3 probably the turning point. There will be someone else doing the switch too next year.:whistling: With the price of rotor engine parts going through the roof, you can basically get 4 cylinder rods and forged pistons with change for two new rotor housings.

If you want to persist..... it's no Rx7 though.....

http://my105.com/lis...ls.aspx?id=3467

Hearing ya Ben. Advice I was given very early on was don't head to Targa with anything you can't afford or risk throwing in the bush.

Funny thing, guy I mentioned some pages ago with the GTR, ended up having to make lease payments on two cars after writing one of them off at TT.....when these were worth a bit of coin too.

^^^^ There are just so many ways to crash at Targa and sooo many variables. Even with the best intentions, some rain and a fluid spill or something else unexpected could easily have you off the road.... and then there is always the red mist to contend with if you get passed or are getting caught.... :)

bummer 2pee. didn't know that! :(

the RX4 on my105 looks pretty good value. especially with 2 engines and another in bits!

but yeah rotors can be a whole lot of pain. but when going well they are great.

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