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Originally Posted by classicauto

I'm not aware of anyone who's done the setup on a rotary. I've seen numerous remote mount jobs on various trucks, corvettes, TA's and they all put out some nice power. And despite what you think, the one's I've seen are no slower spooling then a poorly tuned "regular" single on our cars.

That's the thing though, were not comparing a poorly tuned "regular" setup to a properly tuned remote mount. I'm comparing (at least) a properly tuned remote mount to a properly tuned "reg". Dollar for dollar it's going to be more effective to go with a "reg". That's not to say one shouldn't do a remote mount, maybe some one wants to make it appear as a sleeper and run a completely different setup (mid placed turbo, hidden intercooler, etc). I know people personally that have done remote mount turbo setups on C5's and had great results. That's not to say that it was effective. Just imagine if they would have been willing to cut the inner fenders to fit a turbo in the engine bay? What's going to be more effective? Now the C5 != S4/5 and so they'd spend more money altering their engine bay to fit the turbos which means for them it would be cheaper to do a remote mount.

IMO - it'll work. It'll work well. But it has its purpose, which is to fit a turbo or turbos where you normally can't (ever seen a C5 or C6 engine bay?) and on our cars there's plenty of real estate to fit a turbo.

I know it will work, but I doubt we'll see the gains we would if compared to a "reg" setup you know? It would be my opinion that it would cost more to do a remote mount on our cars than it would be to do a "reg".

That said though i'm all for uniqueness...with a proerply sized turbine and housing you'll have a decent setup. Plumbing, shielding, etc will take alot of thinking but it can be done.

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Originally Posted by jerd_hambone

I'm not hell bent on doing one, I was asking if someone had done one on a rotary.

Why are you so hell bent in putting down a setup you probably have never used?

Read above reasons.

And honestly, I have not seen a TII longblock with tranny for 300-400 bucks. If you do manage to find one for that price, it will more than likely need at the least a housing and rotor.

I have seen recently an s4 na short block for 100, an s4 tii for 150, and an s5 short block for 150. Tii tranny's can be had all day for 100-250 depending on seller. Put them on a pallet and it's 150 more to ship it to your door.

They do seem to be very effective, although you seem to think not. Many people have run them with great results.

alright enough with the semantics.