newbie from Coventry

[pro7dave]

Hi folks, been a longtime rotary fan and finally gotta scratch that particular itch. I've looked around for a good FB for a while with no luck so have decided to leave the destruction of a good classic alone as I'm a little bit into my racing and trackdays.so the plan is to try and learn as much as I can about 12a engines before transplanting a BP, d and IDA equipped version into my Eunos. I hope you guys don't think this is sacrilege? I live about 4 miles from HME which I hope will help. so please expect lots of brain picking and if you guys have any parts of info that would help then it's all appreciated.
Thanks, Dave.

[Lucky]

Good shout, dude. Steve on here did exactly that with his MX-5 before he got his RX-7, might be worth you picking his brain, certainly. Mind you, for three-grandish you could buy Mark's FB that's for sale on here and get as sorted a car as you can find in the UK. Choices, choices lol

....welcome along, by the way.

[RamoNZ]

Welcome fella - by Eunos do you mean roadster aka MX5?

Adding a rotary heart to any car could never be considered sacrilege and is wholy condoned but I would offer that there are a few great FBs for sale out there at the moment to get you started right away!

[ian65]

Hi Dave,
welcome to the forum...... glad to find another enthusiast in the midlands!
By coincidence, we've started a new section on the forum today for cars / projects that aren't 1st gen RX7's but which, as car enthusiasts, we'd all like to read about. If you'd like to start a thread on there for your Eunos / rotary project, I'm sure we'd all like to read about it and help in any way we can.

it's here....

viewforum.php?f=55

Also, Steve-A did that conversion himself.... a 13b rotary into an MX5..... he's the man to speak to for that conversion....

cheers,
Ian

[pro7dave]

Hi thankis guys, my little mx is a strane little lightweight model thats only 895 kg from the factory. it has a 4:3 torsen diff, big brakes, and currently bilstein shocks with eibach springs, mx5 series spec rims and 195/50/15 federal RSR tyres. i think if a nice BPd engine was thrown in with anything around a couple of hundred BHP itd be fntastic. plus as a total aside, is there as better sound than a brap brap tickover and that high rpm rotary scream?
Ill be onto the build threads ASAP to see whos doing what.
Thanks again, Dave.

[mpk490p]

welcome Dave, get that MX5 brapping!......

or buy my FB

[pro7dave]

welcome Dave, get that MX5 brapping!......

or buy my FB

Its a nice car that. a donor car would be my ideal as i could make sure the engine and box were cool before the rebuild. yours is a bit too good for that.
I can remember the TWR cars being raced back in the day (as the kids say ) and especially remember the wide bodied cars. id like to do that at some point for sure.though im guessing only JDM cars came without sunroof's?

[mpk490p]

Thanks

there was a guy who had / has a wide boy series 3 in red although it has a 3.0 omega engine in it, not sure if he sold it but it was up for sale, plenty of them about at the minute just make sure you get a good shell

[codge]

The Omega engined S3 was still for sale very recently. Wilts area as I recall.