What car for a 13b?

Kennedy Engineered Products makes an adapter to wankel-fy an air-cooled VW. I've never been all that interested in VWs but the idea of a rotary bug appeals to me for some reason.

MK1 MR2. May you sleep well at night over the MR2 purists protest letters.

FSP_ZX2 wrote: No one said "Miata"? Huh. Ok. Miata.

Even before the thread began.

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/i-almost-went-to-the-dark-side-rx-content/73863/page2/

But seriously, the Chevette idea kicks monumental amounts of ass. If you can find one.

wait... PowerDork?

Locost.

Got welder?

T-bucket

or

Flat fender Jeep

JamesMcD wrote: Kennedy Engineered Products makes an adapter to wankel-fy an air-cooled VW. I've never been all that interested in VWs but the idea of a rotary bug appeals to me for some reason.

Do NOT do this. I drove one, while it's sorta fun at first it is only good in a straight line and winds up being a terrible car due to antiquated brakes and steering.

My suggestions:

MGB (with proper front suspension upgrades, get away from the lever shocks)

Jensen Healey (pretty simple swap)

Fiat 124 Spider (has better suspension than the MGB, IMHO the best starting point for an easy swap)

Opel GT or Kadett (with proper front suspension upgrades)

Porsche 914 but use the sideshift transmission.

http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/4193696552.html

Hmm

JamesMcD wrote: Kennedy Engineered Products makes an adapter to wankel-fy an air-cooled VW. I've never been all that interested in VWs but the idea of a rotary bug appeals to me for some reason.

Dang it! Beat me to it!

Miata is the obvious answer, of course, but I keep seeing this Lancia Zagato pop up and debating putting it in that. Or...taking my spare 323 GTX engine/trans and making an AWD Zagato...

nocones wrote: The Lotus that Argo has?

This needs to be stated again.

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/200x-classifieds/rust-free-lotus-rolling-chassis-500/73100/page1/

Fiat X19

In reply to RossD:

Well I want something relatively streetable when done. That lotus looks a bit stripped.

chaparral wrote: Rotaries make nice power for their size. They don't have very good specific fuel consumption. They have a nice, flat torque curve. A flat torque curve is exciting when you have a high power-to-weight ratio. My uncle and I were going to put one in a Morris Minor. The project stalled because I set my sights on reusing the independent suspension from the RX7 and the fabrication and redesign work would've been way beyond us. Had we just found an appropriate live axle the thing would've been brilliant.

They have great BSFC when appropriately ported

E30? 36?

any corvette

any porsche

Fox body mustang

240

Anything you can get your hands on for cheap.

Put me in for a Miata vote I've long thought the rotary and the Miata belonged together.

Bellhousing will mate, the input shaft works, and the gearing in the Miata is slightly lower.

Good times.

Volvo 240 wagon.

Z3 ultraleggera - aka take off anything which doesn't make the car go/stop/turn including the windshield.

Mk 1 Vw rabbit. Remember seeing a rotary swapped rabbit before and it was cool.

RossD wrote:

nocones wrote: The Lotus that Argo has?

This needs to be stated again. http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/200x-classifieds/rust-free-lotus-rolling-chassis-500/73100/page1/

I concur......you can always make interior parts with a bit of time, some balsa, and microsuede

http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/4198187929.html

Looks like they weigh around or below 3000#.

ansonivan wrote: Z3 ultraleggera - aka take off anything which doesn't make the car go/stop/turn including the windshield.

Do you have one sitting behind the shop you will sell me?

AE86. There's at least one out on the West Coast with that conversion already.

I've also seen them in Caterhams & Westfields, although silencing them to something that can't be heard two counties over can be a problem in that application.

KP61 Starlet

Lotus Europa.

Exocet .

In reply to BoxheadTim:

All of those would be fantastic if I could actually find the car to swap it in. I would buy a reasonably priced Starlet in a heartbeat to put this in but they just don't exist.

Depends what "reasonably priced" means in this context. I occasionally see some out here but they're usually in the 3k-4k range.