Thread: Hi, does anyone know of any Mazda Rotary engined Hot Rods??

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Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Don wrote:

Driving a Midget for five years will enable you to write a scholarly text on "Springs I have seen under large trucks".

Don, I actually thought about doing a similarly themed paper while riding to work in a 1972 Lotus Europa.

Originally Posted by lamin8r

if you guys look back to the June74 issue of HotRod,you will find the cover car is Andy Brizios twin rotary and auto 32 roadster.Article inside

That sounds interesting, my favourite motor in my favourite car, any chance of scanning it and putting it up on here? Is it in the USA?
Ive only found Aussie rotor rods so far, there is also a 34 Chevy having a big turbo 3 rotor put in it 'down under', think hes aiming for about 700 bhp.
In case youre wondering why the obsession? it was the Norton Rotary race bikes in the UK in the late 1980's/early 90's that got me 'into' rotaries.
Thanks for the comments everyone.

Can do,will try taking a digital first,see if that works..Sorry to bag your passion,I guess we all have our preferences and mine just isnt rotaries,but I will try not to be so narrow minded,dont like subarus either..

photos of cover and inside page as promised.

Thanks! so an American beat the Aussies to it way back in the early seventies using engines from an RX2! I did a search on Andy Brizio and it said that after the twin engined Deuce he also built a 27 using a single RX2 engine.
Back then a lot of people believed that the Rotary would take over from the Piston engine and everyone was working on Rotary projects (including GM with their Rotary Corvettes).

No probs,Baron,its not the thing to do here in NZ,but there is a rotary powered T bucket in the lower half of the North Island,last seen at street drags in Wellington spewing its guts over the track,and copping some very nasty comments as well..I might be biased,and a little narrow minded,but there are far worse down here than me,,a lot of Kiwis wont even have anything to do with volksrods,not that we have too many.
A great many of our number in NZ refuse to remember our roots,sure,there were a lot of old 30s coupes,roadsters and sedans built in the late 50s and raced on the beaches,but a great number of our customs were of course English cars,which we had thousands of,now,not many rodders seem to wish to acknowledge the fact,although we still have a lot of Ford Pops,Anglias to those of you in the States.Its the way of the country I suppose.

Hello I can't bag on you for wanting to try something different but in my admitadly biased apinion there are so many better options . Here is my Anglia 100e with a fiat twin cam motor and It's a fast little bastard !!! With the added benefit of decent feul milage . Though I did have to install a bigger gas tank as the stock one was very tiny .

Another step closer... i bought a rotten old RX7 and dropped the motor out...

[QUOTE=BaronVonVankel]Another step closer... i bought a rotten old RX7 and dropped the motor out...

LOL's. Isn't it incredible how small those things are with respect to a big block American made engine! If not for the mass of assessories in my RX8, it would look fairly similar. Keep going.....you've got the makings of a project now.

Dave

Originally Posted by Stovebolter

LOL's. Isn't it incredible how small those things are with respect to a big block American made engine! If not for the mass of assessories in my RX8, it would look fairly similar. Keep going.....you've got the makings of a project now.
Dave

I dont know if its true but im told the RX8 engine bay is full of anti polution emissions control stuff... sounds about right.
Because of the age of the Pop emissions are not an issue

Originally Posted by BaronVonVankel

I dont know if its true but im told the RX8 engine bay is full of anti polution emissions control stuff... sounds about right.
Because of the age of the Pop emissions are not an issue

Yes...they are. That why mine is such a bear to tune for the turbo. Going to take someone with more knowledge than me to get mine right. I bought a kit from Greddy.....and it has never...I repeat....never worked right. I have moaned and groaned to them on a every two month basis....and 3 years later haven't gotten anywhere with them.

You made the right choice.....less is best....and simple works.

Dave

WHY????????????

Originally Posted by John Brian

WHY????????????

Originally Posted by BaronVonVankel

In case youre wondering why the obsession? it was the Norton Rotary race bikes in the UK in the late 1980's/early 90's that got me 'into' rotaries.

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Why not?

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