Fenda's uber garage Engine Build

[chibikougan]

Noi..pics awwwwww..

[Fendamonky]

Originally Posted by chibikougan

Noi..pics awwwwww..

Monday morning was lazy, and AWESOME!! Spent a bit of time making the rotors up, primarily just ensuring that none of the side seals would bind in the corners. I'm reusing the seals and clearances that Brian and Mike set originally, so no real worries there.



Later in the day I painted the engine (flat black) and washed my car.


Tuesday was a fun one... I started off by doing a brake job on the bimmer (rear pads and rotors) and kinda retarded out.. I normally do work like that at the hobby shop on base. A) I didn't have a big enough hammer, and B) I left my parking brake on because I was working on a slight hill and I forgot that you need to release that to remove the rear rotors.. I fucked with the bimmer for about an hour or so then said screw it and started on the engine.

The stacking began pretty straight forward, the FSM in pdf format on a tablet is a godsend!!



This was by no means a typical shop rebuild this went down in the front of my (messy) garage, I moved the bike out for space and was using the top of my recycling bin as a staging area.. anybody wanna take bets on my engines surviveability in comparison to say.. some "Precision Rotary" professionals on the other site??



Don't mind the mini screw driver above, I was using that to help convince the apex seals to settle all the way down and below the edge of the housing.



I ran into one major hiccup.. as I was lowering on the center iron, by myself (THAT is a bitch!!), it got bound on the upper dowel. I had a minor freak out (the two other times I've seen an engine go together that didn't happen) and called the two people I know and trust to stack a motor.. Glenn and Brian. I'm actually glad it bound... Bianca got home as I was fretting over it and I decided to just pull the iron off and try it again, with a second person.. I'm glad it bound because at that point I realized that I had 2 oil seals and 3 water seals left!!!! In my haste to get the iron on I forgot to put the water seal in so... lucky me!

ANYWAY!! That bit done, everything went pretty straight forward... This is my last pic of the stacking, I'll snag some of the keg tonight when I do the front stack.



And a little video of my hand cranking it (there was only one leading plug installed here, all the rest were out)

FD motor, freshly stacked: