Rotorhead87's Cosmo 13B-RE FC3S build-up

Originally Posted by rotorhead87

No problem I'll do that for you as soon as possible.

No hurry at all but when u do that would be awsome if u could relay the price I may send some business his way then

GREAT build I love the way u are going at it looks real good keep it up!

[rotorhead87]

I figured it's time for a small update everyone! Well since everything is now assembled and all the machining and porting done, it was time to see how this power plant is going to look like. I was so happy to see it all together that day. The motor looked so good, it was beyond what I was expecting. Many people complimented on the motor that it came to a point where the shop just had to cover it up and hide it because just some people had that certain look in their eyes. It was basically looking at a $8,000 piece of fine machinery on a engine stand ready to roll out of the shop anytime. Anyways as you all know the Cosmo 13B-RE is not a simple drop-in and bolt up motor. JR Fabrication & Performance made me some custom chromoly motor mounts to hold this beast down in my FC.

Here are some pictures of the motor all put together.




Here are those custom Chromoly motor mounts:

This mount is on the oil filter side. It mounted onto an aluminum plate...lol yeah that too was polished.


This is the turbo side motor mount. It's a pretty damn solid mount.

[RotaryXperiment]

which oil pan are u gonna use?

dude i just wanted to say WOW.... very nice.

[StreetRx7]

Banzai Racing sells these mounts for cosmo into FC an for 3RD Gen Motor into FC....

Great build by the way.. I did one about 7 months ago...
With Haltech E6X,1000cc 1600cc injectors,1x walbro, hks manifold, ACT clutch, hugh front mount, an T04E Turbo .81ar stock rebuild... Runs great...

[rotorhead87]

Originally Posted by RotaryXperiment

which oil pan are u gonna use?

The original oil pan that went with the Cosmo motor.

Originally Posted by SpooledupRacing

dude i just wanted to say WOW.... very nice.

Thanks! I hoping to get the same response when she running one of these day.

Originally Posted by StreetRx7

Banzai Racing sells these mounts for cosmo into FC an for 3RD Gen Motor into FC....

Great build by the way.. I did one about 7 months ago...
With Haltech E6X,1000cc 1600cc injectors,1x walbro, hks manifold, ACT clutch, hugh front mount, an T04E Turbo .81ar stock rebuild... Runs great...

Yeah I was just about to buy a set from them, but then my fabricator said that he'll just build me a custom chromoly/aluminum cosmo motor mounts...so whatever floats my boat, I'm very much happy with how they turned out.

That setup sounds badass. An other client had a setup somewhat exactly like your but with a 13B-REW and good coilover set. That car was an awesome auto-x car putting shame on those expensive hooked up porsches and corvettes. Do you happen to have any pics of you ride, I'd love to catch a glimpse of it? Thanks for the compliment also!

[WE3RX7]

Good progress man - I cant wait to see it settled into the new home...

[rotorhead87]

I think I'm gonna do a new update for everyone! Since I just graduated from Indian River State College this month with an Associate Degee in Nursing I'm officially one test away from getting my Registered Nurse license WooHOO. Well I'm here bored off my ass so I figured hell why not give you all some more eye candy. This will be pretty interesting to many of you but its all pretty cool. Check it out and enjoy!

Nothing special here I just wanted to show off the stock 13B-RE pulleys repainted to a graphite color.


Here is a custom polished secondary fuel rail built by JR Fabrication & Performance and if you look just underneathe it is the primary fuel rail from a FD motor. The FD3S primary fuel rail was modified to fit the 13B-RE block. As for my injectors I am running Marren 1600cc top-feed injectors for the secondaries and Blitz 850cc side-feed injectors for the primaries.


This is a special piece I found really cool because I was able to see JR Fabrication & Performance make it from a chunk of solid 3" aluminum bar to this beautiful fuel Y-Block. It's mounted onto a custom aluminum bracket underneathe the UIM. As you can also notice the two painted silver bars, in the first picture, are placed to support the UIM.




And last....my LS1 coils I got off an 01' Chevy Camaro SS they were basically brand new and best of all free. A previous client of the shop worked for a chevy dealership and they would end up throwing away perfectly good parts everyday. Anyways as you can see I have them mounted to the motor; reason is to decrease the amount of resistance by significantly shortening the wire distance from coils to spark plugs. Matter of fact they lay on the same bracket the Y-Block rests on. As for ignition wires I'm using the red MSD 8.5mm for a Chevy Silverado 1500 (not pictured).




I hope everyone is enjoying what I have so far...Feel free to drop a line everyone. Thanks for viewing, I have much more to show!!!

[sk8world]

If you are going for big numbers and want to flow air thru the plenum nicely you may want to have the RE upper mani cut open and grind out the plates that direct air off the TB. I will attach a pic for you.

[sk8world]

here you go

Just remember this...

Coils hate 2 things.. vibrations and heat... with them mounted to the engine they will get JUST THAT..

Mount them to the firewall and safe the life of your coils.. trust me I sell coils for SAABS and VW's all day long... all of which are mounted directly on the engine..

I think even the FD guys want to move the coils away from the engine.. and any "gain" you think u may get from having them so close really wont be a gain at all.. plug wires are one of the LEAST hp related items for an engine.

Looks great..

[rotorhead87]

Thanks for the advice Spooledup. My other friend who has a 10th ann'y has the same exact coil set up and 13B-RE motor. So far his car has been running as a DD for alittle bit over a year and not a problem has occurred yet. Hopefully nothing goes wrong anytime soon.

[rotorhead87]

Originally Posted by sk8world

If you are going for big numbers and want to flow air thru the plenum nicely you may want to have the RE upper mani cut open and grind out the plates that direct air off the TB. I will attach a pic for you.

I didn't have the UIM cut directly like the picture you provided. I had section from each side and bottom of the UIM to allow access to the grinder to level out all the high spots inside of the manifold. The entire inside of the UIM and LIM manifold is smoothen for better air flow.

[sk8world]

sounds very nice. With a real tuner it should make a ton of HP!

[rotorhead87]

New update for today!!!

Well if I can recall the same time that I was still cleaning the engine bay at my friend's garage the motor was sitting on the stand waiting for me to bring it, it's reconditioned home. During the time of waiting JR Fabrication wanted to experiment on just building some stuff for my motor. We were talking about heat shield wrap for the turbo and down pipe one day and a few days JR fabricated a heat shield made from a sheet of stainless steel. Being that my motor was polished and kinda showy in a way... I thought about by a polished oil catch-can off ebay just to add that little extra shine to the rest of the motor. Well again I brought this up to JR and he said to not buy that heavy piece of crap off of ebay, I'll just build you one that 10x's better.A couple months before that happened, our hook up at the Chevrolet dealership was collecting aluminum A/C canisters from some recalls, I believe.Anyways at the shop he took two of those small canisters, cut them in half, welded baffles inside, and then welding them together along with necessities to build a oil-catch can.

Here's the custom stainless steel heat shield that blocks direct heat from the turbo and downpipe.






And here is my custom polished oil-catch can bolted onto where the A/C compressor bracket was bolted onto.