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The Racing world still has not recovered all the damage done on racetracks around the world by Rotary engines to their opponents. Racing Beat is still world leader in Rotary parts. I've been loyal customer for all types of parts since 2004 on 6 different RX7s. Still have a complete REV2 exhaust sytem, all pulleys, suspension bushings and much more from RB on my FC3S.
These covers were popular back in the 80's on cars running BBS wheels. They were intended to draw air through the wheels but in hindsight their actual effectiveness was likely very limited. Most of the 935 Porsche cars were using these covers and "was the thing to do" back then!
These BBS wheel covers were popular back in the 80's and were designed to pull air through the wheels. It was hard to judge the actually effectiveness of these devices without exhaustive testing, something that wasn't typically undertaken back then.
That's not actually true... they just took away the super adventageous BOP dispensation given to Mazda for one year at lemans, and for a handful of years in imsa. Remember, when they won lemans, they qualified with the 12th fastest time despite being lighter than their competition.
Idk what you're sayin man, I've had my FB daily driven for two years now, turned 36 and has 160k on the original motor, carb, and tranny. I put about 25k on the car, kept up w basic maintenance, and she still runs fine. Take care of a rotary and they will take care of you!
Great video. I really miss these old movie style "car show" type of movie reel. Those mazdas were really cool back then and they still are now. I never could understand why the Roger Mandeville and Jim Downing types "southern race car drivers" with their cowboy hats got into racing Mazda RX7s back then. Why did this happen. Was there a stigma towards Mazdas in the south, where it was predominantly NASCAR country? I love the old style BBS wheel covers.
No that is not true I was on the team that won in the GTU class in this video Kent Racing so I know just a little bit about Rotary engines 1 They have always gotten terrible gas mileage for that reason alone they would never be used in cars by the numbers that you say 1/4 of all passenger cars I think not.But the Rotary is not dead yet they may one day make a major comeback as the are one of the few engines that can run on hydrogen without making any major changes to them.
Eric Kent Yep, rotaries get quite poor low rpm partial throttle mpg, but their bsfc was about on par with other piston race engines. At least with the 26b the bsfc was lowest at 6000rpm so it was producing about the same peak amounts of hp per unit of fuel that piston engines were, except the rotary was doing so well into the powerband while its competitors were doing so at very low rpms.
I know much of the body work on these was custom, but does anyone one where I could order a kit like that 92 car? It looks a little more subtle than the Mariah kit.
Some of you Rotary critics should watch videos like this. You may learn something,that is when MAZDA is behind the rotary they created because they understand it they created it,they kick everybody’s ass and when pretenders go out and give this wonderful piece of engineering a bad name that’s what you listen to
Kinda curious, the "thing" they put on top of the rims,what is it? What is the function of it?Is it some kind of air-intake to cool down the disc brakes?..
Like every engine the rotary has its pros and cons, ups and downs, either it's good or bad rotarys are best suited for racing where fuel economy, oil consumption, and maintenance arnt that much of a disadvantage and BUT LOADS OF POWER and weightlessness are KING OF THE TRACK! same reason we use 2 strokes off road and conventional 4 strokes for passenger carriers.
Great upload. I'm still bitter about the FIA's ban on rotaries. I'm convinced if that didn't happen and all of the money that has gone into further developing piston engines had gone into perfecting the rotary design a rotary would be in about 1/4 of all consumer cars today. I really feel like the FIA has really hindered auto and race design, and they need to really rethink their purpose.
I dont think blaming the FIA for the rotary not being in 1/4 of the cars today is really fair. The FIA didnt have much to do with IMSA or the Japanese WSC racing here. The Rotary is very popular here in Japan but really only for performance cars. It has been worked over here since Mazda first got a hold of one,but still its only thought of a performance motor that will not take the abuse the average daily driver does to the motor.Great motor if you take care of it but most people dont.
Mazda was on the road to 1991.When all the crybabies went to the officials to ban the rotary from competition.Racing Beat has a rx3 that won the drags nhra modified eliminator class.They got banned too.I got my car with ur goodies.a tubbed fd
