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Is that a non-turbo 13b? Thoes wheels are gay.

 

I wish my miata could sound like that!

 

isn't that special

 

Just posted it because a while back some guy was asking if you could do the swap.

 

Rotaries do nothing but irritate me- they sound a lot like snowmobiles to me. EXCEPT for the Mazda IMSA GTP race car. That was sweet.

 

Rotaries sounds the worst at idle. A pissed off weedwacker. And if they are running rich they back fire and it sounds like a gun shot. We have a couple that autocross regularily and I hate being in grid behind them.

 

It seems to me that If there are only 3 moving parts ( I think) in a rotory then they would last longer than a conventional piston motor. I see people replacing their motors in those things every 50 thousand miles. Im stumped.

 

The weak link in a rotary engine are the apex seals,those are pretty much the only thing that can go wrong with a rotary that would need a engine to be rebuilt.

 

I just cant jump on that bandwagon.

 

These folks sell a kit. http://www.mazsport.net/html/index.html A guy who autocrosses at the same club I do has the prototype, 13B turbo. Installation looks very clean and runs well.

 

that's a gawdawful amount of dough to stick a rotary in - and you still have to buy the engine

 

I didn't say it was economical, just possible.

 

I didn't say it was impossible, just expensive Anything's possible.

 

Man, that much weight removed from the nose.. I can only imagine what it must be like to drive!!

 

The 13B probably weighs damn-near what the B6 does. You might move a little of the weigh back, though, given how short the 13B is.

 

 

the 13b weighs nearly as much as an LS1.

 

really???

How much does it weigh?

 

Not all rotaries sound like that at idle. My rx-7 sounded nothing like that and idled fine. That car obviously has a large port (really big street port or bridgeport). Usually bridgeported rotaries sound like that, very lumpy at idle.