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 sucker would really
move!
Andy
>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 grass under the car when
>he parked in the yard. The car was "for Sale". Richard
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>REPLY FROM: White, Richard H.
>
>Subject: Rotary MG
>
>Reply-To: Benjamin Ruset <bruset@monmouth.com>
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>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, but since no one there
>knows MGs, it's a short lived thread...
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
>BEN RUSET - http://www.monmouth.com/~bruset
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>"Up the airy mountain,
> Down the rushy glen,
> We daren't go a-hunting
> For fear of little men."
> --William Allingham
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