My daily and the weekend toy - warning, get coffee. And food

[Daffyflyer]

[PhillipM]

Anyway, a few months later, someone wanted the car - provided we stuck him a Honda 4 pot in it first.

So, we then priced up for rewiring and installling, with him sourcing an engine, etc, etc.
Then thought, well, if we're putting an engine in the car anyway.....we may as well put something decent in and try again....so, some hunting around for a month netted us a fairly cheap, low milage S2000 engine

Anyway, it's still a fair bit longer and taller than the rotary, so we bought a bigger angle grinder and lost some tubes....





Machined the flywheel to take a bigger 225mm push clutch:







Moved the gearbox forward and made new polybushed mounts:





And the money shot:



One engine in, and ending 35mm further forward than the rotary!



I'm pretty sure that big hunk of steel holding all these tubes together wasn't vital, was it?

[PhillipM]

New tyres are in order so we checked to see if we could go a bit wider....



That's a no then

Chopped the centre out of the mounting plate with an angle grinder and tried the clutch:



This accidentally turned up....







There was 35mm spare in the bellhousing after the clutch was fitted, soooo, bellhousing, meet angle grinder, angle grinder, meet bellhousing.
And bring TIG with you.



Bit of tidy up work:



And the engine is now almost 75mm further forward than the rotary (old engine cage on here)

[PhillipM]

Spaghetti junction time!





And a day later, still doing it...





And the day after....



Got fed up of looking at exhausts, made up big-ass pulley for big-ass supercharger:



Some goodies in the post and out came the angle grinder and bolt croppers to chop some spare bits out of the engine:





And after that, some beer mat-type sketches of where the new rear bonnet/scoops will end up given we know where everything was mounted, old one:



Roughly what'll happen with the new one:



And some, errr, extras:



And from the rear, old one:



Concept #1



#2

[Killrob]

This nicely shows why Race Exhaust Manifolds are not mass-producible in Automation xD Nice work!

[PhillipM]

Haha, yes, well thankfully the 2.5" into 3" merge is finished and we've tack welded a silencer together for mockup, so it's nearly finished bar a little bit of 2.5" and 3" piping over the transaxle.

[PhillipM]

Some progress, secondaries mocked up, right length, but needs a couple of tweaks to the shape before welding to smooth the flow a little:





Side profile of engine/cage now, that's the old engine rear protection cage for mockup there, you can see how much longer the old setup used to be. The top bar used to be horizontal too, so you can also see how much ground clearance we've gained!





And some of the mountings and plumbing done. Yes, that alternator IS going to be a bitch to drive.
I know the air feed into the plenum and out of the charger need a bit of work but it's a case of make something easy that works at the moment and improve it later since they're just bolt-on flanges

[PhillipM]

[Daffyflyer]

Looking great, LOVE that header design.

Must be great to have so much "engine bay" space for the supercharger piping too!

[PhillipM]

Keeps them away from the engine heat, even if they look a bit haphazard.

Pity there's no engine bay space for anything else eh?

[darkjedi]

great setup man! hope this one holds steady for longer.

[PhillipM]

Okay, no turbo's yet so I had to do it the hard way, but this accounts for the manifold/cam timing changes and exhaust/intake work as well as the inefficiency of the charger, so should be pretty close. Ain't Automation useful?

[Juno8]

that isnt too bad you know although those emissions are brutal...

[PhillipM]

The rotary used to make your eyes water when it was idling....

[PhillipM]

New engine cage + extra sump protection to try to stop the sump guards bending as much: