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1. Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: Benjamin Ruset <bruset@monmouth.com>; Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 12:21:23 -0400; Along the same vein of a 5 speed conversion, anyone out there take a 12a Mazda rotary engine from a 79-85 RX-7 and transmission and install it in a B?? It's been talked about on the Mazda list before; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00016.html (7,512 bytes)
2. Re: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: Patton Dickson <kpatton@worldnet.att.net>; Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 09:38:28 -0700; I've read that it's been tried with Spridgets, but I haven't ever seen one . -- '67 Austin Healey Sprite MKIV My Spritepage (featuring a JAVA Spridget newsgroup) is found at... http://www.GEOCITIES.C; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00018.html (8,160 bytes)
3. Re: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: Nory@webtv.net (Nory); Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 12:41:09 -0400; I've seen it done on a TR7, so I bet it could be done on an MG -NORY Don't assume that because you have found one problem, you have found the ONLY problem. '74 Midget & '71 parts car '94 Ford Ranger; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00019.html (7,532 bytes)
4. Re: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: "White, Richard H." <White@courier3.aero.org>; Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 09:49:00 -0700; I did talk to a guy that installed a Rotary into a Spitfire. It ran great, but he did complain about the incredible amount of heat that the rotary created. It was to the point that it would burn the; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00021.html (8,449 bytes)
5. Re: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: The Richards <smrm@coastalnet.com>; Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 14:50:39 -0500; There was a rotary powered MGB in the Special Interst Sports classification for the Gathering, in Winston-Salem NC, April of this year. It ran, body/interior needed work. Sounded like a rotary engine; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00023.html (8,224 bytes)
6. Re: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: mgbob@juno.com (ROBERT G. HOWARD); Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 15:28:07 EDT; This conversion has been made on at least one first-generation Sprite. The owner has set aside and preserved all the original machinery. The installation is tidy; the engine and trans fit right in. N; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00029.html (8,736 bytes)
7. RE: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: "Randy Rees (Volt Computer)" <a-rrees@microsoft.com>; Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 12:52:21 -0700; I once saw a Rotus, that's a Lotus Super 7 with a rotary, Came from England like that. So rotary power is not a new concept in LBC's or FLBC's (F for Fast); /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00033.html (9,018 bytes)
8. RE: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: Benjamin Ruset <bruset@monmouth.com>; Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 15:58:24 -0400; Running the risk of getting flamed horribly, I have always felt that the rotary engine is really superior to many piston engines in many ways. They have a better weight to horsepower ratio than many; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00034.html (8,431 bytes)
9. RE: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: The Richards <smrm@coastalnet.com>; Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 17:27:50 -0500; While all the above were basically true, aren't rotaries thirstier and dirtier? Seems these, and perhaps others, were the reasons for the rotary retreat. Michael, New Bern, NC; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00040.html (8,289 bytes)
10. Re: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: Teacher122@aol.com; Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 19:39:34 -0400 (EDT); << Along the same vein of a 5 speed conversion, anyone out there take a 12a Mazda rotary engine from a 79-85 RX-7 and transmission and install it in a B?? It's been talked about on the Mazda list bef; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00053.html (8,017 bytes)
11. Re: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: Rick Jennings <ahhclem@kcnet.com>; Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 20:04:49 -0500; The current issue of Grassroots Motorsports has an article on their ongoing Spitfire/Rotary conversion. They're also using the mazda 5 speed tranny.; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00061.html (9,434 bytes)
12. Re: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: John Middlesworth <jape@email.unc.edu>; Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 20:59:09 -0400 (EDT); The MGB mentioned below lives here in Chapel Hill, NC. If I recall correctly, it was raced some after its conversion. I think it has a really nice exhaust note. It's funny how little of the engine ba; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00066.html (8,832 bytes)
13. Re: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: Andy Ramm <aramm@concentric.net>; Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:10:17 -0800; Anyone considering this would be btter off looking at the 13B variant of the Mazda Wankel from a later RX7, after 1984 or something. It has more power. I had a 13B in my 1976 RX4 when I was 17. That; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00089.html (8,832 bytes)
14. Re: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: Benjamin Ruset <bruset@monmouth.com>; Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 09:39:27 -0400; The 13b was first available on the RX-7 between 84-85 on the GSL-SE. These cars are rare, so unless you find one in the junkyard, I wouldn't mess with it. You can find a 13b in any year from 86-96, h; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00100.html (8,496 bytes)
15. Re: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: Gregory Kirk <gkirk@empirenet.com>; Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 19:25:27 -0700; I'd certainly be interested, my 948 is in pretty sad shape, and it's weither rebuild, or replace. Options are being evaluated... Greg "But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00126.html (8,457 bytes)
16. Re: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: Chris Kotting <ckotting@iwaynet.net>; Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 07:36:11 -0400; there There's a gent here in Columbus, Ohio who put a Mazda Rotary in a battered Frogeye Sprite, then set up Nitrous Oxide injection on it! (Apparently someone who believes in the "Too Much is Never; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00156.html (8,064 bytes)
17. Re: Rotary MG (score: 1): Author: Gregory Kirk <gkirk@empirenet.com>; Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 10:02:48 -0700; Anyidea how he did it Chris? I'd love more information. all this talk of fast spridgetsand automotive soul just gets me to thinking that it might be real nice to blow aways the VP's BMW Z3 or those M; /html/mgs/1997-10/msg00166.html (8,458 bytes)

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