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You can hear the sincerity in Simon's voice when he thanks his entire team and sponsors for making everything come together. He's a class act. I miss both my RX-7's but mostly the 79.
I'm an old rotary engine specialist from the 70s. Thank you for the detail and conversation in this video. It really brought me back to my days with Mazda.
What a legend this bloke is. Polite and calmly spoken, happy to share his knowledge and a few little tricks of the trade, even goes out of his way to be as relateable as possible.
You can tell how much profit margin and room for competition there is by how the shop looks. If it looks like a doctor's office they are price gouging insanely and an open market for easy competition!
@@illbeyourmonster3591 Fallacy! First you have to clean up the shed, which in your case may take up to a week. And then you can do the work in a week, which now, with all your gang, takes a month. As long as you keep thinking the way you are doing now, you will be a poor bastard. Sorry! translated with Google
I could listen to that engine builder all day, he has a calmness about him. He would be an excellent coach and is an artist at his craft. Reminds me of the Bob Ross of engine building, minus the wild hair. This guy does excellent work!
I bought a new RX2 in 1973. It was a screamer for 2 rotors. It was billed as an economy car. The best gas mileage I got was 13.5 MPG. I severely abused that engine and it never busted. Slipped my foot of the clutch at 7,000 RPM. And occasionally miss shifted to third and hit 11,000 RPM. It never broke. But the clutch wore out several times. As did the skinny 13 inch tires.
I was just thinking the same exact thing as I was watching this video. I've built a handful of racecars and did all the engine assembly except for the things that I needed the machine shop for. What an amazingly simple setup!!!
Great video! If possible you should get a tour of BilletPro to see how it's all made ! Absolutely top content ! What cameras did you use for this video?
As a former 1980 rx7 road race crew chief, who has torn down and rebuilt a bunch of 12as, this video is inspiring, and that engine looks freaking amazing. Nice work!
Nice video - it's watching an artist at work. Even the explanations are humble and you can tell they're from experience. Really enjoying that he's in a clean workshop but doesn't wear gloves.. that's the real guru business right there
I loved my 13b rx3 I had as my first car. Damm I wish I still had that little bastard. Makes me so happy to see a craftsman putting so much love into his work
Such a beautiful engine. I hope whoever it goes to truly enjoys it... I've always personally wanted a 3 rotor with either high compression and low boost or low compression and all the Boost. But they're made of unobtainium for us mere commoners.
Love listening to this master of his craft, fulfilled life of doing what he loves. For all the rotary guys in the comment section, I came from the liquid piston engine to this. How come nobody sized that thing up? Seems like the next big step in the evolution of rotary engines. Would love to hear your opinions on that. If you don’t know just RU-vid it there is more and more content coming up.
Good prices compared to PPRE, It would've been cool to hear his opinion on machined/balanced rotors considering Mazda doesn't have the best tolerances from factory..
Theres a side here in America working on a full billet engine. Billet housings & billet roters, I'm excited to see how it works out with the billet roters.
19:24 - Both the materials science and CAD-CAM driven CNC machine tools caught up to the design potential of what was envisioned when this type of rotary engine was developed?
Recently Scotty did a documentary on the Mazda motors company and his RU-vid channel is the most followed on RU-vid for car repair. An he explained all that information.
The Chevy XP-882 Aerovette prototype had a four-rotor Wankel rotary engine installed for the 1973 Paris Motor Show. They cancelled the engine because of low reliability and high fuel consumption. I wonder if they got it right this time. That would look fantastic in the rear of a car like the Aerovette.
damm thats some sexy engineering. The rotary has so many pluses for motorsports. Having said that I remember back when the first rx-7's came out and a young bloke in the motorcycle club got one, all us teenagers came and drooled over it and my older sister came over and said" nice car why did you get a sheila stick". It was a bloody auto lol.
I must be the only guy in the world that has a lot of trouble wrapping my mind around exactly how these engines work completely. Man, they are beautiful in their simplicity.
I could do this all day. Precision engineering, and attention to detail. If you ever want to import a pomme to help you build engine's, give me a shout. 😁 🇬🇧😆
How does a custom twin rotor compare to a standard 13B engine in terms of longevity? I used to own rotaries in the past and the apex seals going at 50K mileage for 13B RX3 was the issue. Do the unbreakable apex seals allow more kilometres from the engine?
