How Kane and Ray build a Ceramic, Ported, Turboed Renesis!!!!
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How Kane and Ray build a Ceramic, Ported, Turboed Renesis!!!!
Welp - after some big big help by AZRR with a last minute save; it is time to start this thing....
Ok; so here is my story.
May 2009 - I'm getting some misfires from the BHR coils - Ray flies to HI to install a NOS kit in another car; and looks at my misfire issue; thinks maybe one of the wire connections is soft; mails me a new one..... I install new wire - still have some misfiring at high RPM and high Load; Ray tells me that one of the other wires may be bad.....and to take it easy until we see the issue. I think it may be the dwell... but am unsure.
Driving from a flat surface to an extreme uphill with BC settings at 10 PSI to redline and the same PPO2 tune I've been running for about 3-4 months.... I hear a very loud misfire followed by a catastrophic banging sound (uh-oh).... I let off the throttle and my vacuum is all over the place and I'm boosting 10 PSI to maintain 60MPH uphill..... well ****; there goes the motor. I happened to be logging at the time; which was nice.
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/KaneBlownMotor.gif)
Here is the datalog of my motor going bang.... the redline is the moment she went out. It makes more sense when you can see the whole thing - but whatever.
Now - Ray TOLD me to take it easy; and I was; but the BC should have been off and maybe I would have avoided this situation (my bad) - hard to say...... rotaries love turbo's and that bitch spools quick. But then again at that time we weren't sure that dwell was an issue.... **** happens.
I called Ray that morning; he made fun of me.... I called him fat - the norm; LOL and Erick laughed at me too I think. Turns out that weekend is when Jeff and Ray had started to see dwell issues for the big power boys on the BHR coils..... a day late for me!!!! HAHA.
Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
If you give a mouse a cookie
After talking to Ray; my choices were - new OEM motor; rebuilding mine assuming both housing were good; or super secret option number 3. This is where BHR customer service comes into play.
Ray had a motor in his shop; awaiting his experimentation.... it was blown but had low mileage; I had a dead motor in my car - and the desire to get my car rolling so I could PCS from Hawaii....... we decided on a trade; he gets mine and he rebuilds his for me n AZ and ships it to HI; flys here and helps me install it. Basically; Ray said "yeah that is cool man; I've been wanting to play with this thing anyway but just haven't had the time and parts." Now call ******' Edlebrock and try to work that deal if a bad fuel pump kills a 350.
My next phone call; was back to Ray..... "hey man; since we are building this thing anyway - how crazy can we get with this thing?" We both made a few dozen phone calls to various experts like Kevin (Rotary Resurrection), Sven (NRS Rotorsports) and Brian (BDC) among many others; and settled on.
Hand cut side seals and hand built ported motor with everything documented (courtesy of Ray); Ceramic 1 piece 2mm apex seals with FD corner seals (NRS); the rotors had to be machined to accept the taller seals and springs. Ray is also hooking it up with a BHR stage 2 Clutch.
I then did my part; first spent a lot of money then custom built air intake based of the AEM; took old motor out; flow tested and balanced all of my injectors, Mazmart water-pump, power-coated EVERYTHING; Elite Series fuel pressure gauge; refinished my sub-frame; and got a set of Prototype Motormounts from Old Dragger. On top of obviously doing the tuning; however the MAF vs injector scale issue is much easier when you have your injectors flow tested. And while the engine was out I redid all the engine bay wiring cause I could.
From Arizona!
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/DSC04141DesktopResolution.jpg)
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/DSC04144DesktopResolution.jpg)
OOPS new housing time....
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/DSC04155DesktopResolution.jpg)
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/DSC04163DesktopResolution.jpg)
And from Hawaii
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/Day5001.jpg)
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/Day5002.jpg)
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/Day5003.jpg)
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/EndofDay2.jpg)
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/EndofDay3.jpg)
Coming up live streaming video of the re-install from BHR / BBQ; live tuning from Kane and PPO2 and all in time ( I Hope) to get me out of Hawaii on Nov 13th.
Now - who wants to question BHR's customer service reputation...... hmmmmm?
Now - for the first ever hand built, ceramic sealed; GT3071R turbo-ed, ported Renesis engine to show it's stuff!!!!!!
Ok; so here is my story.
May 2009 - I'm getting some misfires from the BHR coils - Ray flies to HI to install a NOS kit in another car; and looks at my misfire issue; thinks maybe one of the wire connections is soft; mails me a new one..... I install new wire - still have some misfiring at high RPM and high Load; Ray tells me that one of the other wires may be bad.....and to take it easy until we see the issue. I think it may be the dwell... but am unsure.
Driving from a flat surface to an extreme uphill with BC settings at 10 PSI to redline and the same PPO2 tune I've been running for about 3-4 months.... I hear a very loud misfire followed by a catastrophic banging sound (uh-oh).... I let off the throttle and my vacuum is all over the place and I'm boosting 10 PSI to maintain 60MPH uphill..... well ****; there goes the motor. I happened to be logging at the time; which was nice.
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/KaneBlownMotor.gif)
Here is the datalog of my motor going bang.... the redline is the moment she went out. It makes more sense when you can see the whole thing - but whatever.
Now - Ray TOLD me to take it easy; and I was; but the BC should have been off and maybe I would have avoided this situation (my bad) - hard to say...... rotaries love turbo's and that bitch spools quick. But then again at that time we weren't sure that dwell was an issue.... **** happens.
I called Ray that morning; he made fun of me.... I called him fat - the norm; LOL and Erick laughed at me too I think. Turns out that weekend is when Jeff and Ray had started to see dwell issues for the big power boys on the BHR coils..... a day late for me!!!! HAHA.
Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
If you give a mouse a cookie
After talking to Ray; my choices were - new OEM motor; rebuilding mine assuming both housing were good; or super secret option number 3. This is where BHR customer service comes into play.
Ray had a motor in his shop; awaiting his experimentation.... it was blown but had low mileage; I had a dead motor in my car - and the desire to get my car rolling so I could PCS from Hawaii....... we decided on a trade; he gets mine and he rebuilds his for me n AZ and ships it to HI; flys here and helps me install it. Basically; Ray said "yeah that is cool man; I've been wanting to play with this thing anyway but just haven't had the time and parts." Now call ******' Edlebrock and try to work that deal if a bad fuel pump kills a 350.
My next phone call; was back to Ray..... "hey man; since we are building this thing anyway - how crazy can we get with this thing?" We both made a few dozen phone calls to various experts like Kevin (Rotary Resurrection), Sven (NRS Rotorsports) and Brian (BDC) among many others; and settled on.
Hand cut side seals and hand built ported motor with everything documented (courtesy of Ray); Ceramic 1 piece 2mm apex seals with FD corner seals (NRS); the rotors had to be machined to accept the taller seals and springs. Ray is also hooking it up with a BHR stage 2 Clutch.
I then did my part; first spent a lot of money then custom built air intake based of the AEM; took old motor out; flow tested and balanced all of my injectors, Mazmart water-pump, power-coated EVERYTHING; Elite Series fuel pressure gauge; refinished my sub-frame; and got a set of Prototype Motormounts from Old Dragger. On top of obviously doing the tuning; however the MAF vs injector scale issue is much easier when you have your injectors flow tested. And while the engine was out I redid all the engine bay wiring cause I could.
From Arizona!
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/DSC04141DesktopResolution.jpg)
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/DSC04144DesktopResolution.jpg)
OOPS new housing time....
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/DSC04155DesktopResolution.jpg)
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/DSC04163DesktopResolution.jpg)
And from Hawaii
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/Day5001.jpg)
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/Day5002.jpg)
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/Day5003.jpg)
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/EndofDay2.jpg)
![](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee222/kanetomlin/New%20Motor/EndofDay3.jpg)
Coming up live streaming video of the re-install from BHR / BBQ; live tuning from Kane and PPO2 and all in time ( I Hope) to get me out of Hawaii on Nov 13th.
Now - who wants to question BHR's customer service reputation...... hmmmmm?
Now - for the first ever hand built, ceramic sealed; GT3071R turbo-ed, ported Renesis engine to show it's stuff!!!!!!
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So far..... BIG BIG thanks too:
Ray Hill @ BHR
Erick @ BHR
Sven @ NRS Rotorsports
Kevin @ Rotary Resurrection
Brian Cain @ BDC
Yoshi @ Ron's Performance
Bobby aka PunisherRX8
Richard aka JudgeGTO2005
Mazmart
AZRR
Ray Hill @ BHR
Erick @ BHR
Sven @ NRS Rotorsports
Kevin @ Rotary Resurrection
Brian Cain @ BDC
Yoshi @ Ron's Performance
Bobby aka PunisherRX8
Richard aka JudgeGTO2005
Mazmart
AZRR
Last edited by Kane; 11-04-2009 at 07:35 PM.
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bout time this thread goes up, I wasn't sure how much longer I could keep the secret of this soon to be BADASS engine!
lookin' good man, can't wait for updates.
lookin' good man, can't wait for updates.
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