The Car or Thing that gets you Inspired Thread

[Treza360]

My close friend's dad's car.
Last weekend at the Jamboree broke the ST289 record again to regain the No 1 position with a 7.90 @ 172mph
This is the man & car that changed the face of rotary drag racing many year's ago & what makes it so good bloody good today & a true pioneer of the sport.
This car was the first street untubbed rotary to run a 9, which was also the only rotary in the exclusive 9 second street car club in the late 80's & then went onto to be the first into the 8s with a different owner a few years ago.
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That was two or three years ago at Qld Jambo as well wasn't it? I was there on the saturday that it ran that time. Dyson Senior's car isn't it?

Preen you suck. Rotaries are awesome.

[Treza360]

Now that is pure automotive porn. Lovely lovely.

[Preen59]

Preen you suck. Rotaries are awesome.

Well you're just an idiot..

Now that is pure automotive porn. Lovely lovely.

Ok maybe not.

[Oneofthegreats]

That was two or three years ago at Qld Jambo as well wasn't it? I was there on the saturday that it ran that time. Dyson Senior's car isn't it?

Preen you suck. Rotaries are awesome.

What was 2 or three year's?

I know he ran a 9.7 @ 147mph on DOT tyres in 89 & it was a street car as their mum used to take them to school in it in the early day's
There's a ton of other stories too & there all bloody funny.

Paul Fieffer owned it with Chris Dalton driving ran the first untubbed 8 in it. Can't remember the year or track exactly. Was more than 4 years ago now

Wayne Dyson his name & this car has been going to the Jamboree for a few year's now.

He ran the 7.90 & broke out on the Sunday arvo.

He top Qualified on the Sat. with a 8.03 MPH?

It may not seem much, but this is on a 9" slick with over 900hp @ the wheel's.

Preen, I felt the same way about rotary's until I went in one & I changed my mind quick smart & would have one over most VW's engine hand's down. If only I could fit one to a golf

Also alot simpler than a piston engine. The world goe's round & round, not up & down! Ha ha

I've seen just as many VW's break down than rotary's.

It's a very smooth, efficient engine at making power & until you've been in a really quick one or driving one, it's hard to explain what it's like.

It's also a very simple engine with only 3 major moving part's. Crankshaft & 2 rotor's.

13B = 1.3L, one engine revolution is 3 crankshaft rotations's, 3 intake, compression, power & exhaust strokes per rotor

Why can a 13B spool up such big turbo's?

Cause they flow the amount of exhaust gas as a 400ci Chev!

[Mrk_Mickey]

From what little I understand the rotary engine sounds beautiful to me...

It's certainly inspiring, as is most machinery

[Flaps]

Rotor's are sweet IMO. I pulled up next to a P plater in an S1 RX7 12A yesterday and I was so jealous. That would've been such an awesome first car, way better then my 88 Tincam Seca

Oh the dilemma, what car to get next. EVO 9 or S6 RX7 Bridgey...

[dubbed]

I don't really like rotarys (Hand grenades... And they look like overgrown alternators..)

But holy crap you have to respect them.

I'm with you mate! Not a big fan of the ol' scrotary but boy they can be quick suckers.

I still want a FC/FD RX7 in my collection one day... Maybe with a twin turbo LS2 conversion.

[Preen59]

Sorry, had to.

[Oneofthegreats]

Sorry, had to.

What don't you like about them Preen?

To complicated for you, can't work out the port timing?

I don't think you've been in a fast one, have you?

My friend's mildly tuned 13B made 280rwkw's on 15psi & 411rwkw's on 32psi with C16.
In street trim (15psi), I never seen a bike that could out run it on the street!

I remember driving it one time & it came on in 3rd & it pulled that hard, it not only made lift out of the seat & made you ride the seat back rest, but you could also feel it trying to lift the LHF wheel at over 100! Believe it or not, I don't care

Now that's an experience hand's down!

[gareth_oau]

hehe, friend of mine had an earlier, worked RX7, and it was like driving with an on/off switch.

watching him drive up a steep driveway was hilarious - either stall or smoke it, nowhere in between