I'm sure the few thousand (out of 800k+ built) might have proven to be more of a fluke than anything else hell even my best friend got a ford fiesta to 350k miles



Hell I will honestly say I've seen more rx7s in the junk yard than I have on the road and of the ones one had encounters with, either through people I know or through my old shop, almost all have either failed emissions miserably or have an oil quarts per gallon ratio



Oh and BTW your 19mpg rating was from a brand new vehicle, I doubt half on the road are still getting that

 

On MPG remark, that's across the board there. Find any car used, over ten years old, and see if it gets the same mpg.



As far as in the junk yard, I've seen a lot of 3rd and 4th gens. It's an old car, a lot of people don't want to drop money into a car like enthusiast and dump them. For that matter, the FC3S is unarguably structurally proven and often in the tuner market winds up sporting an American V8 solely because of the ease in mods. Seeing them in junk yards means nothing in my option. In fact, a lot of Wankels are on the market solely because it's different and few people really know much about them. I will agree, they do have a taste for oil, but nature of the beast. I think we generally saw a quart per 3k miles, it happens.









Yet again, the argument was never "the LSx/y/z motor is crap", it was that the Wankel is lighter and in many cases preferred. I don't get the need to tear down something that's still a desired motor. (Furai, 787b, FD, Eunos Cosmo, S10 SIlvia [in this case a lot of swaps of modern 13Bs from piston motors], etc...)

I'm not by any means telling people to build a crazy drag car out of a rotary unless say it had a 600lb frame and serious size restrictions, just like I wouldn't build 2500hp monster as a spirited dd. Application, plain and simple.

 

It was MEANT to burn oil!



It injected it, on purpose, into the rotor housings to lubricate them at high rpm.

If you changed your oil on time, it wasn't ever an issue.

 

Like I said... The Hayabusa motor is used in the Radical. 530 Kg.



http://www.radicalsportscars.com/uk/...al-sr4-cs.aspx







Like my '01 T/A that gets 30 mpg on the highway?

 

You keep saying "highway," whats the combo #? Don't cross qualify.

On top of that, how stock is the motor? If it's been under rebuild or an kind of restorative maintenance that is of course going to slant the scale.

 

and you keep saying rotary's are great



you have yet to show proof to that either

 

WHAT HAVE I DONE!



I hide, I created monster.



It kill thread with hijack attacks...

 

Well, a rotary engine has a lower centre of gravity, as well as being a physically smaller engine. I don't know about the weights of both engines but I think you guys covered that.







I'm not sure that a warmed over factory turbo wankel will be any less reliable than an LS engine with an aftermarket turbo kit anyways.

 

well we will put it as a base hp theory



which will have less stress on it



a 500hp wanker



or



a 500hp ls1

 

How many rednecks does it take to install a turbo kit?