> how a car runs and how it should run. For instance, Mazda Rotary > engines. If I announced on the list that I was going to install a RX7 > engine in my van everyone would be screaming "no low end torque", > "that's a high RPM engine". Having been an owner and racer (took lst in 3 different clubs in '84) of an RX-7, let me say that engine has torque ALL OVER the RPM range! In normal driving you don't have to take it over 2000 RPM. I've met a guy in Columbus that installed > rotary's in just about everything he owned, a bus, Vanagon, Ghia. I rode > in the Vanagon and it was nice. You tell him his van is slow, if you can > catch up to him. A rotary in the vanagon! Does it fit? NEAT! Who can do it? MPG would suffer tho... TBill
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