| georgeyw |
06-24-2006 06:17 AM |
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Originally Posted by 2HousePlague
Dood, we're taking about a high-performance car, here -- "efficiency" is relative to performance. Check this out:
"The Mazda RX7 was a practical sports car, highly competitive, and offered at a low price. Supply could not keep up with demand and many potential buyers were often offering more money above sticker price just to own one. There were initial quality problems but all issues were quickly resolved. By 1980 nearly 140,000 examples had been produced. Using a 12A rotary engine displacing 1.2 liters, it was capable of producing around 105 horsepower. Zero to sixty was accomplished in ten seconds.
In 1984 a more powerful 1.3 liter rotary engine was introduced, the 13B. The 13B produced 135 horsepower and was placed in the 'special edition' cars called the GSL-SE. The GSL-SE were given disc brakes on all four corners and a Limited Slip Differential. The zero to sixty time improved to just under nine seconds... more
This is a friendly dialogue, of course, but I gotta ask...have you ever driven a stock 1981 RX-7 with a 5-speed and a 13B engine? It sounds like no, cuz anybody I ever met who ever has spends the rest of his life singing Savana's praises -- :)
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Never driven any form of RX7 - i have however driven an RX1 or R100 whatever the thing is (2 door - i'll find a pic of one later). Anyways it had a 13B bridgeport and a crap load of other mods. It went like a scalded cat BUT I felt like someone had trapped me inside a can with a bumble bee BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTT BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTT BZZZZZZZZZZZZZttt :mad:
I get that they have a phenomenal amount of power for their displacement, but the sound a rotary makes at WOT is like being stuck in a room with Hanson on repeat!
They're quick, it's great to be able to rev to high heaven and still not hit redline - but if I had to listen to that engine everyday i'd become suicidal.
I've got a 2litre turbo(sr20det) in a small datto (p510 for the US peeps) and the sound is superb, power delivery freaking NUTS but still it lacks that chilling, menacing sound of a V8 almost stalling at idle.
But I digress, kudos to you for loving performance and honestly I would like to own a rotary at some stage but not as a daily driver. However I still don't quite understand how a rotary could ever be labelled as fuel efficient. It chews juice, infact i'd say that they'd chew as much juice as a V8 pumping out the same bhp.*
* Disclaimer : this is of course based on ZERO facts :thumbsup |
