I really hope someone does this…
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Last Call: Let’s get weird!
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11 responses to “Last Call: Let’s get weird!”
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Well, Ima throw some Fiesta ST badges on my Mazda2 then (it’s already got enough FoMoCo badged parts). Or get really weird, and go for like… Fiesta SE?
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I went to throw out a dig at the Mazda RX community by suggesting showing up at a Mazda RX meet with one mounted as a supercharger on your C3 Corvette. (No, really, they’re great superchargers! No pulsing!)
But then I discovered Jason Torch-in-sky (he always gets there before me!!!) has already answered both today’s Hooniverse Asks: and provided a good Last Call entry in one article from almost two years ago. (Maybe I should read Jalopnik? …nah. I tried that once.)
https://jalopnik.com/this-might-be-the-weirdest-engine-rolls-royce-ever-made-1797954082
Behold the Rolls-Royce Dual (not twin) Wankel Supercharged Turbo Diesel! Which resembles a Twingle (if you know what one of those does) in that there’s a Wankel rotor that acts as a supercharger to feed a smaller rotor that adds diesel fuel and compresses it to detonation and then blows the exhaust past the first rotor, thus turbo-charging the supercharger? (Bonus question: Given the Wankel’s propensity to consume their own lubricating oil as fuel, how would you shut this thing down?)-
I’m sure some contrarian has done the actual swap, but someone should swap a Mazda Wankel into a C5 Corvette chassis. The kicker would be to show up at a Corvette track day event and have the poor thing get pummeled all day long by smog-era wheezers running bias ply tires with the a/c blasting. Rotaries are an interesting idea, they just couldn’t do anything better than the alternative.
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Batshitbox – same way as a runaway turbodiesel running on its own oil, block the air intake.
Rob Dahm has just put a rotor in a Corvette. Not sure that the old rotary powered concept cars would stop brains from exploding!
Nearly 30 years ago there was a guy who went to a lot of trouble to mount a GM type blower in the middle of his RX7 hood so people would think he’d put a V8 in it, when it actually still had the 13B.
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There’s another guy who did something similar, only for reals!
http://speedhunters-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/05160007/IMG_1459-1200×800.jpg
http://www.speedhunters.com/2015/10/getting-ruthless-blown-triple-rotor-style/
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A rotary has been fitted into a GM car that was otherwise available with straight sixes and V8s including the mighty SBC.
The Mazda Roadpacer based on a Holden chassis/body. 13B rotary with GM 350 automatic only, the Roadpacer AP has the sole distinction of being the only General Motors product being fitted for production with a rotary engine. Barely 100 mph, slow acceleration from the torqueless motor pushing 1600kg/3500 lb and 9 mpg. Only 800 made, fewer sold, here’s one in the Mazda museum.
No I don’t know why either.
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The other Rotary Corvette.
Made in Italy by Pininfarina, with a steel, not fibreglass, body on a shortened Porsche 914 chassis-unit, now powered by a Mazda rotary running through a Cimmaron 3 speed automatic transaxle.
An actual factory Corvette, the XP897GT Twin rotor Corvette.
http://www.carstyling.ru/resources/concept/large/1973_Chevrolet_XP-897GT_2-Rotor_04.jpg
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Pfft, amateurs. If you really want to make driving a Japanese/German Coupe awkward, get a bumper sticker that says “Axis Power!”
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oddly enough “Axis Power” was the brand name of a kit to convert a Suzuki Samurai to use a VW turbo diesel. from the late 90s
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OMG…
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