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Originally Posted by pylon
The biggest achievement in my auto repair career, was completely rebuilding a Mazda 12A rotary on my 82 RX-7, with nothing more than a Chiltons manual, and 600 bucks worth of parts from the Mazda dealer when I was 17. A guy down the street bought that car from me, and it ran for 11 years on that rebuild. I always wondered why the Wankel engine never caught on. It made so much more sense than piston engines, and if the same amount of time an research went into it, it would have been amazing what could have been achieved with the rotary concept.
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I think emissions and driveability. You need to rev the crap out of those for any power, usually not much at all going on down low. If you look at an RX-8 compared to anything that gets the same fuel economy, it's slllllooowwwww.