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Yeah rotary's are crap.

Swap a LS1 in that shit and call it a day. BTW, an LS1 in an RX7 doesnt change the weight distribution at all. The LS1 + T56 tranny weighs within 60lbs of the 13b+5 speed tranny, and it actually gives the car more weight towards the back thanks to the length of the tranny.

Plus the LS1 is a FAR greater motor than the rotary will ever be. Any rotary.

 

ehh I wouldnt say that. If it wasnt for the high maintainance, rotary engines could easily be one of the best ever designed. Hopefully in the future someone can find a way to make it more "user friendly"

 

No an engine that you can put full exhaust on and squeeze almost 50RWHP out of or an engine you can put a pulley and exhaust on and run mid 11's are some of the best designed ever. In 3500+lb cars no less.

 

High maintenance and inefficiency do notmake a good mtor. Neither does torque below absolute zero.

LS1's and variants of the gen III and IV smallblock are the most efficient smallblock v8's ever produced, and they're still old fashioned ancient pushrod technology.

 

Rotary motors are definitely not a new technology either. They can be very reliable as well.

Look at all the old planes that used rotary motors.

 

That still doesn't make them one of the best ever designed. Hell even if I wasn't a GM guy I'd have a ton of repsect for LSX engines. Pushrod technology that gets quite a decent HP increase from very minimal mods and with a T56 attached still gets ~19/27MPG.

 

Rotaries(high HP, especially) don't last long. LSs do.

Rotaries take quite a bit of work to get up to 400 whp, which is done without much hassle on LSX engines.

Horsepower doesn't even matter anyway. LSX engines have something called torque, which you won't truly experience in a rotary.

Rotaries get trash gas mileage. LS V8s don't.

There's no way a rotary will ever beat an LS1.

 

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anyone ever have problems with rear differential mounts, i know i broke the one in my 89 rx7 several times, aside from bustin a clutch up, i drove the dog shit out of it and it stayed together, the apex seals were goin in it so it smoked horrible but still ran like a champ, and doin donuts are alot more fun than poppin vtec. just my two sense