20B FD

[thesandymancan]

i love the wankel. :naughty:

this it the first test drive of my friends FD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqKkwAscAB0

i wish he had more footage. :love:

 

[SevenMKIII]

Damn, sounds like a champ. Looks like it pulls real hard too :love: I love the FD

 

[tlo86]

that rocks

 

[drunk_medic]

The 20B is kind of an anomaly when it comes to rotary engines; it actually produces a decent amount of torque!

 

[NA86.5]

All the rotories Ive seen make big power only last about a couple of hard pulles then they blow up. If you ask me I would not buy a rotory. But hey we all have are own points of view.

 

[OneJoeZee]

All the rotories Ive seen make big power only last about a couple of hard pulles then they blow up. If you ask me I would not buy a rotory. But hey we all have are own points of view.

That's a pretty blanket statement.

I could say the same thing about 7Ms and BHG.

Sure, rotaries can be finicky creatures but there are alot people who do have success with them and make a lot of power.

I've driven a couple. an FC and FD. The FD was really nice.

If I ever sell my Supra and buy another fun car, I'd be in a black FD. Easy.

 

[SupraMario]

That's a pretty blanket statement.

I could say the same thing about 7Ms and BHG.

Sure, rotaries can be finicky creatures but there are alot people who do have success with them and make a lot of power.

I've driven a couple. an FC and FD. The FD was really nice.

If I ever sell my Supra and buy another fun car, I'd be in a black FD. Easy.

Why not white? You racist there boy. hardy har har....:biglaugh:

 

[OneJoeZee]

"Always bet on black"

-Wesley Snipes (Passenger 57)

 

[SupraMario]

"Always bet on black"

-Wesley Snipes (Passenger 57)

:yelrotflm:yelrotflm:yelrotflm:yelrotflm:yelrotflm

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

God that movie was corny.

 

[thesandymancan]

All the rotories Ive seen make big power only last about a couple of hard pulles then they blow up. If you ask me I would not buy a rotory. But hey we all have are own points of view.

this is usually due to stupidity. lot's of rotary owners try and tune like it's a piston driven motor, too lean.

as the rotary motto goes: better rich and retarded then lean and broke.

 

[thesandymancan]

That's a pretty blanket statement.

I could say the same thing about 7Ms and BHG.

Sure, rotaries can be finicky creatures but there are alot people who do have success with them and make a lot of power.

I've driven a couple. an FC and FD. The FD was really nice.

If I ever sell my Supra and buy another fun car, I'd be in a black FD. Easy.

joe! you may be in luck. if you realy want an FD, another friend of mine is selling his. nicely moded to somewhere around 350hp-ish. black. $15k. :naughty:

 

[IJ.]

Way back I'd considered a 20B for the Fat car

 

[OneJoeZee]

joe! you may be in luck. if you realy want an FD, another friend of mine is selling his. nicely moded to somewhere around 350hp-ish. black. $15k. :naughty:

I said IF I sell my Supra! No way could I afford an FD in addition to at this point.

I wish though.

 

[7Mboost]

All the rotories Ive seen make big power only last about a couple of hard pulles then they blow up. If you ask me I would not buy a rotory. But hey we all have are own points of view.

You've must have been watching only the ones that blow up. Rotaries are nearly indestructable, my brother drove his NA on a blown rotor for 15k, and I still see it roaming the streets, no rebuild or anything. Because rotaries do not have to hold as much tourque as a regualar piston engine they can hold very high horsepower numbers.

And the 20B is no joke, very expensive but totally worth it as this video shows.

 

[MmmBoost]

uh...

but, in seriousness, ive seen some really nicely tuned and built rotaries. and you are right saying it is all in the tuning. my friends buddy paid Steve Kahn (a rotary tuner from texas) to come out here and tune his on a haltech ems when it got built. thing is still running like a champ.

back on topic... NICE VID!

 

[mark3monster]

Boy imagine that in my miata.:evil2:

 

[thesandymancan]

Boy imagine that in my miata.:evil2:

unfortunately, they're nearly impossible to fit in a miata. lots of frame and body work. i have seen them in an AE86 tho.

 

[BlackMKIII]

Communism worked in theory, too.

Someone had to say it. :sarcasm:

Nice car though. I do have respect for the 20B and 26B. Sick shit, ultra fast. Very nicely done. Rotories are very difficult to make power and keep it from breaking.

 

[NastyNate]

It is too bad that the 20b swap isn't less costly.