Its so much fun. Apparently my car thinks so too!!!!!!!!
I popped a seal. Again! w00t
Call me a sadist, but I'm actually a little excited about this one. I'll get into that in a sec, but first off let me list for you guys what the "classicauto solo" rebuild has stood up to so far:
1) Installed with the E6(HEX!)X when it was still having trigger issues.
2) The first 10 mintues/10 kms the engine had on it were (after a short idle) done at 15psi
3) Over 45 dyno runs
4) Somewhere around the 40th dyno run - the fuel pump fuse blew (clogged filter) and STONE COLD SHUT HER DOWN at about 18psi/5500RPM
5) New EMS, larger turbo....
6) "tuned" by me
7) Driven to the gap, "tuned up some more" by me with Masin behidn the wheel
8) Ran the shit out of it on the gap.....
9) Drove to the keys and back home......(over 7000kms)
10) Ran the shit out of it around here "tuning it some more"
11) Had the water injection off for the last tuning session, and forgot to turn it back on after
12) Blew to bits at 20psi (yes 20, from the T04-R) at around 7,000RPM
All in all, about 17,000kms of shitty tuning and hard driving. Its a hell of an improvment over my previous history of popping them in vaccum, or at 2psi while passing a truck.......on freshly rebuilt engines.
I'm excited about this for the following:
1) I get to inspect my first entirely solo rebuild
2) Inspect the coolant jacket mods I did
3) Inspect the EGR elimination to the sleeves I did
4) I get to install my NRS ceramics!!!! w00T!
5) I get to give up trying to be a tuner, I'm a body man for fuck sakes!!
I'll post pics of the carnage when I get it apart, but let me just say it blow'd up real good. Much better then before, there was only about 300C of EGT on the rear rotor....
I'll never use anything else but a rotary..........in my rotary car
The skyline GTR that I don't own yet but will one day can stay inline 6 though
EDIT: I'm in touch with Logan from Defined autoworks, waiting to hear back a few things but I'm planning to use his mountains of skill (and dyno) to do the tuning on the new keg. I may be hard headed on getting and keeping this bitch running on both rotors, but damn these new seals are pricey. I'll let a real master do his thing.....