Perry,  the plan is to have a local machine shop offer boring of your
housings at a very reasonable cost. We have already bored sample junk
housings and it is no problem to do. Probably around $50.00 pr housing.
If you have access to a mill and want to do it yourself you will not
have a difficult time.

I will sell the throttle bodies  which are intended to run great in the
6000 to 8000 rpm range. They are supposed to  idle and have good
throttle response.   I will sell these and  you can either Devcon them
in yourself or have me do it.  But first I have to prove  they will
work properly.  The  prototype throttle bodies will probably be
finished by June 10.

The missing piece is the intake manifold.  I am hoping that Ed will
produce a first class aluminum manifold for us.  I plan to see him in a
couple of weeks with throttle bodies in  hand.  There is also the CF
manifold possibility.  I will cooperate with anyone who is working on
this.   Are you interested?      Jerry

I can certainly make CF parts.
Paul, where are the main engine mount hard points on the RX-8 engine
again? 2nd gen. were on the middle housing and 3rd gen. were on the rear
housing. I would prefer rear housing. Instead of a 13BREW based engine,
I'm thinking Renesis with PPort. This way I get the new cool water pump
and the side exhaust ports would be quieter. Renesis already has high
compression rotors - right? Then it 's just a matter of closing off the
side intake ports.

Perry

They are about inline with the rear spark plugs. Front on a tractor.
Nice parts but you don't get those parts when you buy an RX8 engine
unfortunately. Mazda probably wants a fortune if you bought these
castings new. Probably won't work with a turbo also unfortunately.

Paul Lamar

If I'm looking at those pictures right, it looks like they moved forward
to be inline with the front spark plugs. Wrong direction. So I'd have to
use a Schertz beam at the rear of the RX-8 engine. I wouldn't want to
use those Mazda bolt on mounts anyway, they would result in a package
that would be too wide. For the LEZ need to keep the rubber mounts as
close to the engine as possible.

Perry

Right you are I was ass backwards.

Paul Lamar
 
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