I saw the rotary 240sx!

[PongAtari]

Went out to the big local car meet tonight. I was cruising around looking for a spot, and I saw a really yellow S13 hatch, and parked next to it.. figured an orange s13 hatch next to a yellow one might look pretty cool. Of course, I didn't have a camera with me. The hood of the yellow one was up. While I was walking to it, I thought, "Doesn't look usual.. must be a KA-T or an SR." When I got in front of it, I was really confused. It definitely wasn't the usual KA-T or SR, but it certainly had a HUGE turbo! I remembered seeing a link to an Auto Trader ad for a yellow, rotary-powered s13 in South Florida, and realized I was standing in front of it!

I was waiting around to talk to the owner, but when I looked away for a minute, the car left. Talking to a few other people, I found out that it's a motor from an RX-7 Turbo II, and it runs in the 11s.

[wizzfish]

dunno what type of response you're looking for but i'll try:

cool!

[Spectre]

Mmmmm.... rotary....maximum use of small displacement.....ultimate v8 killer....yummy.... :yummy

[AunVoh]

you've got to love rotary, i'm thinking of geting a FD3S when i can afford to pay for the up keep.

[UncleBen]

yea if i had a whole lot more money, i might try to find an FD. But after i buy it i would have to park it and drive it like twice a month or sumthin, just because i wouldn't want to have something go wrong with it. FD rx7's are so awesome tho. man what i would give to have one.

Ben '95 SE

[Nismodood]

my friend is selling his FD for 15K. Its always breaking down, high maintenance cars, but when its running right its freakin fast!

[StanBo]

That is pretty cool. Keep a camera with you for the next meet. I would like to see pictures of his car.

[PantherRacer]

BUMP from the past for being bored...lol.
Still no pics :P lmao.

[Lobo240sx]

^ Dang son!! Rotaries are cool if you plan to rebuild it every 15k miles lol. Other than that they are junk if not built properly. Tuning has to be precise. Some rotary guys give up and drop a SR20DET.

[badbob2121]

BUMP from the past for being bored...lol.
Still no pics :P lmao.

bumping a 9 year old thread?? really??

really that is beyond boredom...

[breadbox]

Hopefully this will get the Braaap build guy to update.


Of course he didn't have a camera in 2002 my camera S'd D's by the pound really hard then and took okay pics.

[pj]

isnt this the same guy who bumped another old a** thread because he was a black dude who was late to the party? lol
come one guy, stop diggin, put the damn shovel down.


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[adrianfromthecastle]

cool story bro

[PantherRacer]

isnt this the same guy who bumped another old a** thread because he was a black dude who was late to the party? lol
come one guy, stop diggin, put the damn shovel down.


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And what? been diggin since 04. Randomly. In different parts of the forums. Where will I strike next?

[pj]

i'm not sure...hopefully somewhere else, zombie thread-bumper digger upper guy.

[OutToWinPAHC]

Hopefully this will get the Braaap build guy to update.


Of course he didn't have a camera in 2002 my camera S'd D's by the pound really hard then and took okay pics.

I think he died

[alms24sebring]

well hello 2002. Meh, I dont have the money for engine rebuilds every 20k miles

[95zenki man]

Ill take this....fc ka-t, dont get me wrong i love rotarys....i just dont know crap about them

[alms24sebring]

^yep thats another reason. mmm turbo... I like'em big

[Hoffman5982]

That's what she said?

[White Comet]

noobs

[mpotoeski1457]

(this is not me being a d!ck) no lie im here at work bored out of my mind and i read this and the whole time im visualizing it in my head and thinking to myself you know this kid is good at describing and hitting good details then i came out of my trance and i was like there actually isnt much detail...haha wtg bud you got my attention...but still a pretty interesting story none the less.

[breadbox]

It looks so small in there.

That's what she said?

[breadbox]

13b S14 Defined Autoworks

Loud Motor is Loud
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHDX78z5V6s[/youtube]

[pj]

sounds beast

[95zenki man]

Rotarys might be the best sounding motors out there today....Subbies being a close 2nd in my book.

[pj]

i agree, so many people HATE that sound but i absolutely love that machine gun "brap" and the sound of a high revving rotary. hearing one pass you with a straight pipe at 7000+ rpm is a wonderful thing. only thing better is a ferrari getting down on the highway. beautiful.

[SX APPEAL]

13b S14 Defined Autoworks

Damn you beat me to it, I was gonna link to that S14


btw zenkiman, Subaru's seriously? They'd sound a lot better if you reconnected the forth spark plug wire thats for sure

The best sounding cars are and always have been Italian:

Lancia Stratos
Lamborgini Miura
Ferrari 458 Italia
Alfa Romeo 8C

and this: (2:45)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEaSZMYV ... re=related[/youtube]

and this: (2:40)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hovbx6rvBaA[/youtube]

*SX APPEAL is not responsible for any trouser accidents viewers may have whilst watching above clips*

[s13sickboi]

oh GOD

[95zenki man]

Well yeah a v10-v12 is going to sound like god coming down to earth and destroying all the Hondas....But lets be real i will never in this life or the next have any of those cars...

I was saying from the prospective of something i can passably own one day.

Ill leave this...


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX5D5FOD ... re=related[/youtube]