It's been done into miata's before and by the people that have done it, it's said to be harder than dropping in a ford 5.0. I don't know about either but this is what I've heard.
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It's hardly bolt in.
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Originally posted by bp 1.8
its not that difficult honestly. the rotary engine will bolt right up to a 1.8L trans. you need to run an aftermarket pcm, and make a custom header, and the rest is just hooking up the throttle cable and installing the oil cooler and other little things.
you guys overestimate the complexity of a rotary swap.
hahahaha....
where you going to put the driveshaft? how about the rear diff?
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Originally posted by WTFComment
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yeah these things always sound easy in peoples head, but when it comes to it, its fuggin hard as hell......HELLO MY NAME IS BEN...
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Well they fail to think about the custom cv axles, flywheel, oil pan/oil pick (or dry sump), exhaust going right where the cv axle has to be. Then lets not forget it's in there but you have to make it run so you have the wiring/testing and hunting down bizzare problems like; why does my tach go dead when I accelerate hard. All these things slip your mind when you are dreaming of big smokey burnouts, how cool everyone will think you are for having a rotary powered Portege.Originally posted by THEGOLDPRO
yeah these things always sound easy in peoples head, but when it comes to it, its fuggin hard as hell.Quote from eBay
"with no knowlege of cars.he,armed only with the skills of an 18th century blacksmith,removed the front axles and wheel bearings,damaging both in the process"Comment
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Is it possible to mount the rotary engine for front wheel drive?Comment
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sure... but you'd still need a TON of custom stuff to make it work. And with that said, why not just convert to RWD?"Never run out of real estate, traction & ideas at the same time"
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Originally posted by WTFComment
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I just thought it might be easier than rebuilding the floor and everything... if it's not then rwd would definitely be better.Comment
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Yes it's been done. The list I had of "custom cv axles, flywheel, oil pan/oil pick (or dry sump), exhaust going right where the cv axle has to be" is what you would need. Ignoring the bad stuff there are a few good things.Originally posted by jnorion
Is it possible to mount the rotary engine for front wheel drive?
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So you can get the to togather easy enough. I don't know the flywheel ring dia but I doubt it's the same so you would have to get it turndown to fit the Protege ring. You could push start it everytime if you didn't want to do that. The engine will have to be rotated forward to gain some exhuast clearance with the cv axle. Which is why you will need to modify the oil pan/pickup or do with a dry sump.
RWD would be the way to go.Originally posted by JesseSays
sure... but you'd still need a TON of custom stuff to make it work. And with that said, why not just convert to RWD?Quote from eBay
"with no knowlege of cars.he,armed only with the skills of an 18th century blacksmith,removed the front axles and wheel bearings,damaging both in the process"Comment
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Hmm.
1. Carburated 12A or 13b (preferably 13b)
2. Custom fabbed adapter plate to mate engine to gearbox (if the BP flywheel won't bolt, it looks like the 13b will fit in)
3. there are shops out there that will do oval exhausts. with that, there would be enough room to fit through. if not that, the cheap man's route would be to run the exhaust to the side and to the back of the engine, over the gearbox and then under. Yeah? Really? Use header wrap to keep the temps down and not affect other stuff in the engine bay. Will be cheaper to go this route than dry sumping (no not humping... pervs) the block.
fun fun would be had.Bryan
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