Motorweek - Mazda Rotary Engine 40th Anniversary
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Uploaded by aaroncake on Aug 19, 2008
Motorweek's segment covering the 40th anniversary of the Mazda rotary engine. Includes coverage of many RX vehicles (R100, RX-2, RX-3, RX-4 Cosmo, RX-7, RX-8, REPU) as well as the Mazda Sportscar Club Of Washington, vintage Mazda commercials and rotary test footage.
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no kidding, 15 posts wtf? most of it negative.
gmcjetpilot if you don't like the engine. not only do you not have to watch the video. you don't even have to post comments, or read comments already posted.
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brap brap
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@aaroncake The govt and their damn emissions control devices they impose on the cars!
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@aaroncake Ah. Ok.
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wow i like these rotary engines very smart ... thats coming from a guy that loves old american v8s
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Over the hill engine??? What a Bimb!!! Just how old are the piston engines there sweetcheeks??
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they are so gangsta!
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@RedFathom How is he going to increase his virtual penis size then? :)
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From what I've been told, the Mazda rotary engine requires more maintenance than a piston engine of similar displacement.
Seattlecarnut 4 months ago
@Seattlecarnut Sort of yes, sort of no. The owner needs to watch the oil level more carefully, but that's about it. Well, they also tend to go through spark plugs more often.
aaroncake 4 months ago
@aaroncake That makes sense. But isn't that the case with all spark plug engines? Shouldn't one check the spark plugs?
Seattlecarnut 4 months ago
@Seattlecarnut They tend to go through spark plugs more often than a piston engine since long thin chamber results in deposits forming on the electrodes. The emission systems of the later cars were a bit of a maze, and of course, there's the twin turbo system of the 3rd gen RX-7 that defined "unreliability".
aaroncake 4 months ago
How much torque did the REPU get? Considering it had a small displacement engine in it it couldn't have been that high.
sonar123456 1 year ago
I don't recall off hand, but it was something like 130HP and 130 FT-LBs. The vehicle was geared to take advantage of the engine and it was actually the fastest production truck at the time.
aaroncake 1 year ago