My new car!

Learjet45 · Postby **Learjet45** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:14

chickenwafer wrote:Says the kid with a basically blown 6...want to take bets on who could drive further now

hey now

someone on 6crew who had basically the same problem got 13k miles out of his engine before getting his new one

iani1.1 · Postby **iani1.1** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:14

And I thought rotaries were unreliable...

Learjet45 · Postby **Learjet45** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:14

Hey, at least my car didn't spend a week parked at ecam's house!

SecondGenPAt · Postby **SecondGenPAt** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:14

iani1.1 wrote:And I thought rotaries were unreliable...

130,000+ with normal maintenance stuff

Learjet45 wrote:Hey, at least my car didn't spend a week parked at ecam's house!

yeah, cause now it's parked at my apartment... allah damnit

iani1.1 · Postby **iani1.1** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:14

SecondGenPAt wrote:130,000+ with normal maintenance stuff

haha yea, that and itll still run even when its blown LOL

...with a little atf help

chickenwafer · Postby **chickenwafer** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:14

There's a reason that rotaries are popular with single prop small aircrafts...if they blow you still have enough power to safely land or even get to your destination, and they are cheaper to maintain.

But Eric, we need to look into where we want to stay and stuff so I can start planning this out. I should be single turbo by then as well!

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:14

Well I'd like to stay in Nanth-whatever village if possible, but we'll have to make reservations as soon as we're allowed to register for the event. Those cabins disappear fast.

christi · Postby **christi** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:14

SecondGenPAt wrote:130,000+ with normal maintenance stuff

yeah, cause now it's parked at my apartment... allah damnit

How do I get randomly mentioned in Eric an chicken's threads all the time?!
Jon: my car runs and won't be dead anytime soon with a blown motor
reason why it sat at eric's cause he didn't trust me driving it
Home and same reason why it's at pats lol.

Chicken: I was gonna still go to dgrr but gas prices went above 4.00$ down south (for 85 here in FL it's 3.85$/gal) and my car acting up lol

Eric: if you DO end up renting a cabin, I'll pitch in and start saving. We really need to get more than 2+ people. When I called and finally spoke with a rep (they suck at answering phone calls and emails) the person I spoke to said it's 200$ a night roughly. Even with dgrr discounts. I can only imagine without....

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chickenwafer · Postby **chickenwafer** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:14

The DGRR discount isn't too much anyways.

We don't want a full house so I'm not positive how many people we can get safely into a cabin. I know they have different cabins available with multiple bedrooms. I plan on bringing my wife as well, hopefully.

chickenwafer · Postby **chickenwafer** » Mon May 02, 2011 9:14

So I think the St Mays duals are too quiet for me....putting the Blitz back on and selling the St Mays. Not looking forward to shipping it though, haha.

Also debating on a turbo manifold. I currently have a cheapie eBay manifold and I cut off the eBay Wastegate flange so I can weld on a TiAL v-band flange. But I keep hearing horror story after story about these manifold warping and cracking. The manifold I really want is the Full Race twin scroll TIG welded manfiold...but it uses twin 38mm gates. So if I buy a 44mm gate for this manifold and then scrap it I need to sell everything and rebuy it all...so I'm debating if I should just save up for the $1100 Full Race manifold and the twin TiAL 38mm gates or take my chances with the eBay manifold...

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Mon May 02, 2011 9:14

I was using the Megan Racing manifold on my first turbo, and I believe that's pretty similar to the eBay manifold, and I never had any problems with it. I'm not sure if it was perfectly flat to mate with the turbo flange though.

chickenwafer · Postby **chickenwafer** » Tue May 03, 2011 9:14

Oh yeah? I might just try this eBay special manifold out then. I have a welder and can weld it if it cracks...I also thought about welding on some support braces from engine flange to turbo flange but it's kind of difficult the way the piping is run.

I was also thinking about cutting off the current wastegate runners and welding the piping smooth then welding in twin TiAL MVS 38mm wastegate v-band flanges so I can run twin wastegates on the crappy manifold. That way if I do switch to the Full Race manifold down the line I will only have to swap manifolds and not worry about the wastegates.

iani1.1 · Postby **iani1.1** » Tue May 03, 2011 9:14

those ebay manifolds are too bad but ive had an obx one crack on me more than a few times. then i went with this http://www.cxracing.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=CXR&Product_Code=MF-RX-7&Category_Code=MFMAZD

chickenwafer · Postby **chickenwafer** » Tue May 03, 2011 9:14

^That CXRacing manifold looks identical to my eBay manifold...CXRacing is an eBay brand so it's safe to say that it's the same.

As long as I don't run crazy EGTs for sustained periods of time I think I'll be fine. But eventually I want to run a Full Race twin scroll manifold with twin TiAL MVS 38mm gates:

iani1.1 · Postby **iani1.1** » Tue May 03, 2011 9:14

agree, cxracing is an ebay brand but better than the obx thats for sure.

but this is sexier lol

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