foggyjames wrote:What happened to the PRV, and why not a redblock? Otherwise, cool
Rotaries must be big down under - most of you guys seem to rave about them. If you strip the AC, gimme a PM...
cheers
James
PRV, didnt have luck finding one in good nic, and couldn't find ANY purgeot versions of the block in australia for sale (3.0 SV). Also as satisfying as it would be to do that, it has turned out easier and cheaper to get another car (the MR2 puts out as much as the PRV would have and it is such a nice car)
Rotaries, Not as big as i make them out to be, my dad and uncle used to race them... That and one of my mates has an rx7, and is building up a rx-2 rally car, his dad is helping him as he rallied in the same breed of car. Up north its a popular thing to put a bridge port 13b into the mazda MX-5, it handles AND has some balls. But fuel is also really cheap up there too.
Pros: 1.2L NA engine with 280hp from a simple porting job. 1.3L version would have outdone the 6-7L V8's except for overheating issues. Mercedes made a prototype rotary car (c111) with 2 of the 1.3L bolted end to end. Its a modular engine, you cant add another 2 cylinders to a pison engine easily, you can with rotaries, just need a crankshaft made up. They never got a peak output from the car as it shattered all their megadolar carbon fiber driveshafts... And they sound cool. No valvetrain to break or limit the engine, so they would happily rev out, dad and uncles was really well built and revved out to 20k when fueling became an issue, but it is known about a .1L rotary to rev at 100k rpm for 3 months as part of a bench test for reliability problems. it passed
Cons: They use fuel like you wouldn't believe when ported. 50L would get nathans RX7 about 150k's... He actually got better k's from it when it was being revved out.
They get very hot.
Drivetrain Problems. Mercedes made a prototype rotary car (c111) with 2 of the 1.3L bolted end to end. They never got a peak output from the car as it shattered all their megadolar carbon fiber driveshafts and twisted the chromoly ones like liquorice...
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). Drift safely kids 
