My 89' 323 GT Worklog

[Wilyb]

drool!!!!nm the car check out the hotties!!

[nickz]

check this **** out!

http://customstreeter.com/feature_turbo_rotary_laser.html

edit: rwd conversion

Now you talking!
major pita mind ya

[Mazda_Powered]

found out some of the snags with the FWD rotary setup man, idk it you knew this or not.


Nope rotary never came out in a FWD derivative

biggest 2 problems.

1: the starter. most FWD engines\gearboxes, have there's from the engine side, pointing towards the gearbox... a rotary engine is to round and fat in the area where the starter would want to be.... Solution to this, If you can get your hands on a top-mount RX2 Starter-motor, your pretty much set....

2: The long side drive-shaft would want to be exactly where the rotary engine's exhaust comes out.... this is however not too much of a problem... one can tilt the motor slightly, such that the shaft will easily pass over a custom made exaust manifold.

source http://www.streetracing.co.za/forum/...pic.php?t=2043

[Damkid]

Problem 1 - I plan using a KL tranny.... KL's have been mated to RX7 tranny's, (google KL miata) so the flywheel/starter situation works with that combo, so I figure the KL starter location "should" work nicely the other way around

Problem 2 - just clock the engine for the manifold to clear the axle on the adapter plate, or make a custom manifold, both are simple solutions

So yes I've thought about that as well lol

[Mazda_Powered]

awesome man! I know you'll find a way, just figured I'd post up some issues others ran into lol.

[tym2pla7]

awh he took the deck that was a sick deck

[Damkid]

Lol ah, stereo equipment isn't too important to me, I have my own setup to install

[Damkid]

So today i picked up another B6T, may decide to change it tomorrow depending how motivated I feel though lol

[sketchman]

Nice. Yours has a slightly nicer interior than mine, but they're nearly twins.

[Damkid]

So today i spent a few hours cleaning up my garage and pulled the 323 in the garage to get it ready for surgery




and i had to grab this pic, B6T, 13B & KLDE lol

[tym2pla7]

yeah i would take a look at the oil cooler and see if you can see a crack anywhere or you might waste some oil

[Mazda_Powered]

nice!

[nerd racing]

You going to rattle bomb that engine bay while you have the motor out?

[Damkid]

^^i might do that, we'll see how motivated I am lol

yeah i would take a look at the oil cooler and see if you can see a crack anywhere or you might waste some oil

Yup I will definitely be taking a look at it for sure while I'm swapping parts lol

[DuRWooD]

Ah, I miss her. Very happy to see some progress will be made on it, they're such fun little cars. What's the B6T out of? Does it have the nice rods?