Hi there, Mazda rotary motors are awesome.... in cars. They develop zero torque and produce a tremendous amount of heat and exhaust noise. My friend Kevin melted the exhaust on both his RX2 and RX3 at various times. The RX2 had the original 12A dual distributor motor and the RX3 had a 1st generation 13B electronic ignition motor with some mild porting. The motor is smooth, loves to windup and you can get insane power to displacement numbers. It is not suited for lugging, chugging, load pulling or confined spaces. It also drinks gas like a skid row alcoholic goes through ripple. I bet in a vanagon you would see single digit mileage. So, I would put a Mercedes inline six diesel or a big block chev V8 or possibly a GE F404 motor with afterburner in the back of my vanagon before I would do a rotary conversion (hmm.. I wonder if I would pass DEQ with the afterburner...) Irreverently, Brian __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ |
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