Checking in

[JustJeff]

I'm expanding my horizons and checking out what these forums are all about. I've owned S5 verts for the last 10 years or so. Mostly OEM, but 3 years ago I made the jump to turbo swapping with a JDM engine. I paid a shop to do the work for me and have been learning and catching up ever since. The swap went forward with no rebuild and the car was a daily driver for 3 years. The only issues the engine ever had were user error type things as I learned my way around. Here's the build so far, nothing exotic, or extreme

89 vert
S5 JDM 13B and tranny
N370 ECU and modified N/A harness
RB REV TII exhaust and FCD
FD fuel pump 550 primaries and 800 secondaries
S4 Differential
FD alt
Cosmo MAF

Was waiting for the Rtek S5 turbo chips to come out of beta testing....but detonated and blew the front rotor. In the process of doing my first rebuild. The engine is out and torn down. Damage was the front rotor was iffy, front housing was shot. Turbo wasn't damaged but it had enough thrust play that I replaced it with a S5. Rotor has been replaced, still looking for a housing.

I'll be honest in saying that I'm torn about RCC. What I read about the intent of these forums is that it's a mature and low drama alternative. That the things 7club are/were reputed to be, such as high drama, lots of "SEARCH NOOB!!" to new member and general trolling are NOT over here. I hope thats true.

I've stayed away so far because my reality has been that alot of the people who were on 7club creating drama, trolling, and being harsh to new members came over here after the fallout at 7club. I'm hoping thats not the case and that the perception I created is by my own design as those types of thread were what i paid attention to.

Hopefully I'm wrong in that perception and I'll find sharing of info, community, love of rotaries, what baby unicorns eat for breakfast and why dolphins are always smiling.

All that being said, I'm checking RCC out with an open mind.

[jerd_hambone]

We have a lot less harsh treatment and all that here. I love this place. It doesn't have an active of a lounge, but if you need some info, there's more than enough people here to help and not just shout "search!"

Welcome! Post up some pics of this S5 Turbo vert!

[JustJeff]

Originally Posted by jerd_hambone

We have a lot less harsh treatment and all that here. I love this place. It doesn't have an active of a lounge, but if you need some info, there's more than enough people here to help and not just shout "search!"

Welcome! Post up some pics of this S5 Turbo vert!

Over there is actually very pleasant, you don't see much harsh treatment of new people like there used to be.

I'd post up pics of the vert but it's been sitting out in the weather for a year now without being washed. It's pretty clean other than needing some TLC. I'm the 3rd owner and it was originally from southern cali and then in Atlanta. It's only seen a couple winters. No rust at all. It does need a new top in a bad way, but that is low on the priority list right now.

Here's some pics of the engine. I'm getting bored waiting for the rebuild to come together so I've entertained myself with silly side projects. Decided to do the engine copper and black. Rear housing is the bad front one, i simply pushed everything together to get a feel for how the intakes would look on it








This weekends project is mounting a junkyard electric fan on my Koyo.

[NoDOHC]

Welcome!

Obviously, we are all human here, so there is a little bit of drama, but we mostly just talk about our projects, throw out ideas and if they are bad ones, we revise them. There is a lot of technical information available in the tech forums and stickies.

Congrats on your first teardown. I remember dreading mine, only to find that I had the engine in pieces in about 45 minutes. Reassembly was a different story as I recall.

The front rotor is usually the one that survives, this is a corner case from my experience.

I hate to say it, but eBay is probably your best bet for rotor housings. Try to buy from a reputable outfit if you can.

Anyway, Welcome to the club - make yourself at home!

[RotorDad]

Welcome to the club, you have joined an easy going forum.

[JustJeff]

Originally Posted by NoDOHC

Welcome!

Obviously, we are all human here, so there is a little bit of drama, but we mostly just talk about our projects, throw out ideas and if they are bad ones, we revise them. There is a lot of technical information available in the tech forums and stickies.

Congrats on your first teardown. I remember dreading mine, only to find that I had the engine in pieces in about 45 minutes. Reassembly was a different story as I recall.

The front rotor is usually the one that survives, this is a corner case from my experience.

I hate to say it, but eBay is probably your best bet for rotor housings. Try to buy from a reputable outfit if you can.

Anyway, Welcome to the club - make yourself at home!

I've been itching to do a rebuild for some time now. I knew I was living on borrowed time what with having the JDM swapped with no rebuild.

Teardown was a breeze. I bagged and tagged all the bolts and such. Also took LOTS of pics and have them saved on my computer. Hopefully assembly will go smoothly

Originally Posted by RotorDad

Welcome to the club, you have joined an easy going forum.

Thanks Dad

[jerd_hambone]

Yeah, try to find Kevin Landers on there, he usually has some stuff for sale, and he prices his parts pretty well.

Oh and dude, that color scheme looks pretty bad ass. In a black engine bay, that'd pop A LOT. Well in any engine bay. But copper and black has always been a good combo.

[JustJeff]

Originally Posted by jerd_hambone

Yeah, try to find Kevin Landers on there, he usually has some stuff for sale, and he prices his parts pretty well.

Oh and dude, that color scheme looks pretty bad ass. In a black engine bay, that'd pop A LOT. Well in any engine bay. But copper and black has always been a good combo.

Thanks, the engine might end up in a black vert. I'm trying to get the funds together to buy a vert off my father. He has both red and black verts and only wants one of them. My grand plan would be to buy his and eventually turbo swap his and put his N/A in mine. Use the N/A as a daily driver. Or who knows..part out the N/A. Hell, I don't know yet...too many options :P

[Viperx7]

Welcome to the Club. Nice color scheme on the engine. Definately different.

[RotorDad]

Color scheme does look good man, nice choice.

[JustJeff]

Pic of the 3 verts between my father and I. Now that it's started getting cold out my rebuild doesn't have the same urgency.

Mine is the turbo swapped in the background. He owns the other two but wants to get rid of the black one. I'm also trying to decide on whether to sell an authentic MS scoop or use it. I'd almost prefer to do a FMIC or VMIC with a vented GT300 hood.



I love this pic, my father's red vert is scary clean. He picked it up last summer. Never had any work on it beyond routine maintenance. Engine is clean enough to eat of off.