Rob Dahm's Rotary Engine Building & Tuning Tips

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Factory Mazda parts quality and their limits, knock/detonation in a rotary engine, lightened rotors, stud kits, clearancing plus ethanol fuel advantages are just a few of the topics discussed with Rob Dahm adding more and more specific details the deeper the discussion gets.
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Rotary engine building traditionally has had 2 extremes, those building them poorly and blaming engine, and those building them well via experience they don't wish to share sometimes for understandable commercial reasons.
Rob Dahm considers himself an entertainer, but through that role, he has helped share his journey into the world of rotary engine tuning and building with no filter on his successes or failures and insight into the work trailblazers like PAC Performance and similar have accomplished so far.
At SEMA we had a chance to pick his brain about this journey, what he has learnt and now what advice he can give others keen to dive into this world too.
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TIME STAMPS:
0:00 - Rotary Reputation
0:21 - Rob's 'Rotar Daddy Status
1:33 - Sharing Is Caring
2:01 - Rotary Engine Tuning Mistake
3:19 - Fuelling And Ignition
4:05 - Rotary Engines & Knock
5:42 - AFR/Fuelling
7:38 - Rotary Engine Building
9:30 - Key Rotary Engine Upgrades/Modifications
11:35 - Ethanol Advantages
11:48 - Dowelling and Stud Kits
13:00 - Rotor Clearance For Higher RPM
13:47 - High RPM & Blow-by
14:35 - Apex Seals
16:24 - Thanks ‪@RobDahm‬!
16:46 - Want To Tune Your Own Rotary Engine?
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Пікірлер: 46

@hpa101 Жыл бұрын

Take $50 USD off ANY HP Academy course with this coupon: KZfaq50 Enroll now: hpcdmy.co/50offytc - Taz 👨🏻

@ddpliveries9671 Жыл бұрын

Anything with Rob I am here for

@jahraizer250 Жыл бұрын

The bachelorette?

@amirbasssystem Жыл бұрын

@@jahraizer250 always 0:32

@shenaniganshop3309 Жыл бұрын

We need a podcast with Dahm!

@bbbbbbbbbbbb27 Жыл бұрын

I second this!

@analogdriving4824 Жыл бұрын

good info , thanks!!!

@phoenixrising7047 Жыл бұрын

Hi Taz, great to see you boys still coughing up the gold every now and then. I forget sometimes to what degree Andre knows his shit, another good example here. Hi Rob! Youre a good man.

@lukebrennan5780 11 ай бұрын

This was EXCELLENT.

@hpa101 11 ай бұрын

Cheers mate! Glad you enjoyed this one - Taz.

@hdoglesby Жыл бұрын

From the Bachelor to the Rotary King. He's earned my respect bc of his diligence and hard work

@umakemerandy3669 Жыл бұрын

Lol what the hell, i had to google it. Thats funny.

@skaterboi8922 7 ай бұрын

11:00 dude in the back not happy rob put a rotor in the corvette

@hpa101 7 ай бұрын

Almost looks like he's breaking into a sweat over it 😂 - Taz.

@Mistabushi Жыл бұрын

I’ll give you best tip, just one…unlimited budget😅😅😅

@aw6545 Жыл бұрын

Robs nervous as fuck lmao

@capnthepeafarmer Жыл бұрын

Because he's being interviewed by a heavyweight! 🤣

@Smokkedandslammed Жыл бұрын

This S.O.B just pulled the "perfect rotary step father" and then ghosted us. We were damn near getting daily uploads, THEN HE LEFT US! HE LEFT US! He's actually like an abusive rotary step father, just buying our love with hour long videos then dissappearing after he "forgot his milk and cigarettes at the track" We still love him though.

@G_Ozare Жыл бұрын

Dorito-Daddy hhaaa LFGOOOO!!!!

@beetledrift Жыл бұрын

Is this a reupload?

@hpa101 Жыл бұрын

No, we did two interviews with Rob at the same event 😎 One is about the AWD RX7 build which came out a few weeks ago, and this one is rotary engines in general Same t-shirts and same interview spot though so easy to mix up - Taz.

@stephenhayston4314 Жыл бұрын

2 smart cookies

@yuye117 Жыл бұрын

6 rotor in production?????

@mrsquariel Жыл бұрын

Only their mother can tell them apart! Excellent content once again. Thank you.

@phoenixrising7047 Жыл бұрын

Heheh

@notsponsored103 Жыл бұрын

Podcast

@orlyrx7CanutoUltra7 Жыл бұрын

Make a line of production for your style, i bet if affordable you be multy M

@Lopez_the_heavy Жыл бұрын

16:17 Yo! What’s he trying to take a picture of?🤔lol

@Mistabushi Жыл бұрын

Possibly a vin number😂

@Bubbaj226 Жыл бұрын

Garrett did a qr code easter egg hunt

@themiraimage Жыл бұрын

FIRST!!! #ROTANGKLAN

@Bubbaj226 Жыл бұрын

@@uselessoutdoorsman2826 nah but I am and I'll allow it

@Bubbaj226 Жыл бұрын

@@uselessoutdoorsman2826 Yea I am 😂

@orlyrx7CanutoUltra7 Жыл бұрын

Spitting raw fuel trough the exhaust is not bad, CDI..

@Kj16V Жыл бұрын

I love how Rob Dahm has gradually gone from tuning noob to probably one of the world's foremost Wankel experts, and we've been able to follow the whole journey on KZfaq.

@zaffromstatefarm Жыл бұрын

@@billballin6948 did your mom drop you as a child?

@raddeal1 Жыл бұрын

Lol no

@naterg8ter680 Жыл бұрын

he's not an expert, but what he does learn he shares. he does know more than the average enthusiast though. the real rotary experts gatekeep their secrets because thats how they make money.

@toddolsen5421 Жыл бұрын

his fab guy is good. Rob's got a heap of money and seems to have the machining down now but if that was done here in NZ it would be 2000hp and actually be finished most of that car is rough as guts.

@NorwayVFX Жыл бұрын

Robs car could have been done years ago and been top notch IF he was a rich guy dumping money into it and getting someone else to build it but where is the fun in that? He is building the car himself to learn and has made insane progress considering he just started learning to do stuff himself a few years ago. Also the ''heaps of money'' he has mostly comes from the videos about building the car, if he didn't build it himself and share these videos he wouldn't afford the car anyways. The reason most of the car is rough is mostly because it is a prototype and testbed for him. No need to make something perfect when you know it will be changed 3-4 times the following year. They recently 3D scanned the car in order to design the final carbon body and new steel tube chassis so he is just now starting the ''final'' proper build of the car. The fact that he just received the one-of-a-kind 12 rotor engine to play around with from the original designer and builder shows the respect he has earned even though what he builds is ''rough as guts''.

@gregroles69 Жыл бұрын

Why "finish" a super popular youtube build that generates money and interest? Even Rob defines himself as an entertainer, and in that he excels.

@toddolsen5421 Жыл бұрын

@@NorwayVFX All that shows is some guy has sold him his rubbish a 20b turbo would smoke that motor and that's if they can even get it running.

@fd3s93 Жыл бұрын

@NorwayVFX I've been following Rob for over 10 years. He owns a data center for servers.

@NorwayVFX Жыл бұрын

@@fd3s93 I know but that money is only a fraction of what he has put into the 4 rotor. I think he said about half of the car is paid by sponsor money and products. And he receives a bunch of money from Patreon that goes straight into the car.

@9madness9 Жыл бұрын

😅Inside out Wankel from LiquidPiston says its new XTS-210 solves the efficiency, lubrication and fuel type issues of Wankel rotary engines. This supercharged, liquid-cooled two-stroke claims 5X the power of an equivalent size or weight diesel engine, and 3X the torque. Targeted at military, commercial and aerospace applications, the XTS-210 is about the size of a basketball, weighs in at 19 kg (42 lb), and displaces 210 cc. It'll run on multiple fuels, including diesel and kerosene/jet fuel. The company is shooting for about 20 kW (26.8 hp) and 29.4 Nm (21.7 lb-ft) of torque, both at 6,500 rpm.