Mazda rx8?

[320touring]

ok so rx8 + old washing machine motah ftw

[HH-R]

I was being silly earlier, a Gardner 4LW would never fit. A Perkins Prima probably would, though.

[twosmoke300]

I'm sure I've read about Saab turbo motors being used in them

[srad34]

What a coincidence as I just got offered one for £250 and was wondering if its worth a punt, does make it expensive with having to tax it though,

 

Answer = sell the interior, rebuild the engine and use it as a trackday car..... Job done

[CHRIS1980]

I think the Citroen birotor engine from the GS would be good. Apparently they are the last word in Rotary reliability.

[sierraman]

I think a Perkins Phaser would be entirely suitable. Then I'd paint it mart black, throw £4-500 at a half arsed 'renovation' then sell it on at a crushing loss on Ebay.

[New POD]

What a coincidence as I just got offered one for £250 and was wondering if its worth a punt, does make it expensive with having to tax it though,

 

 

£250 plus £2000K for an engine and £550 for road tax and 25 mpg, is still cheap motoring if you are looking for an awesome sports car.

[alfetta]

Early cars are fairly cheap to tax, isn't it post 2006 or something?mate got rid of his (when they were quite new)  thinking he was about to be bum raped....

 

Does seem the late RX7 motor was more reliable and that was turbo too...

[Tamworthbay]

Early cars are fairly cheap to tax, isn't it post 2006 or something?mate got rid of his (when they were quite new)  thinking he was about to be bum raped....

 

Does seem the late RX7 motor was more reliable and that was turbo too...

wasn't the changeover 2001? Seem to remember my old Passat estate just got in on the old system.

[saucedoctor]

I think he means the 2006 changeover. That's why I bought a 2005 X Type, where the road tax is only ridiculous rather than bloody ridiculous.

 

Mines £290 p.a., whereas a post April 2006 car is £490.

 

The Mazda RX8 in the background of this photo belongs to a chap I know, Gordie. The photo was taken last March, and the car is still sitting there. Hasn't stopped him buying another fucked one, mind. As someone else said, the Chevrolet LS1 engine is supposed to be an popular transplant, but Gordie is convinced it won't physically fit.

 

I told him to lob a KV6 in there. They never go wrong.

[Vince70]

It could be worse.. At least he hasn't decided to put a Renault Laguna IDE lump into an RX8..

[Craig the Princess]

You bastards, not looking on eBay for RX-8s

[Uncle Jimmy]

The engines in these are rotary and more reliable.

[dome]

Funnily enough I've been offered one as a swap for the Fusion...

[320touring]

Funnily enough I've been offered one as a swap for the Fusion...

back the fuck away!

[scdan4]

The engines in these are rotary and more reliable.

 

um, radial. sorry.

 

but i suspect that they old it together better, yes. 

[Lankytim]

Nope, that plane has a rotary! Like a radial but the crank is stationary and the block spins round with the prop

[John F]

Yep, the Sopwith Camel had a rotary.

 

This is a radial:

 

 

 

This is a WWI aircraft rotary:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHRuEkvO8E

 

 

And a car rotary:

 

[scdan4]

Yep, the Sopwith Camel had a rotary.

 

 

This is a WWI aircraft rotary:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHRuEkvO8E

 

 

 

 

Flipping heck that's amazing! I never knew that. Consider my flab well and truly ghasted.

 

So many questions now - how does the valvegear, induction, exhaust and ignition work? Are the cylinders in effect the flywheel? What sort of pervert would conceive of such a thing? Will have to get the google fu out later!

 

Every day is a school day. Thanks. 

[Sloth in a bowl]

Flipping heck that's amazing! I never knew that. Consider my flab well and truly ghasted.

 

So many questions now - how does the valvegear, induction, exhaust and ignition work? Are the cylinders in effect the flywheel? What sort of pervert would conceive of such a thing? Will have to get the google fu out later!

 

Every day is a school day. Thanks.

The torque steer on the Camel was so high from the engine that it was quicker to throw it 270 degrees left than turn 90 right.

[forddeliveryboy]

What sort of pervert would conceive of such a thing?

 

Have you seen/heard three Junkers Jumos built into a triangle by Napier..? They're just as lovely, especially when thundering out of KX.

[wuvvum]

I seem to recall reading that the Camel engine didn't really have much in the way of throttle control - you basically slowed down / landed by killing the ignition.  Don't know how true that is.

[John F]

 

 

Have you seen/heard three Junkers Jumos built into a triangle by Napier..? They're just as lovely, especially when thundering out of KX.

 

 

Jumo isn't actually an engine designation, it just stands for Junkers Motorenwerke, the engine factory owned by Junkers.

[John F]

I seem to recall reading that the Camel engine didn't really have much in the way of throttle control - you basically slowed down / landed by killing the ignition.  Don't know how true that is.

 

Quite true – in early models of e.g. the Gnome-Rhône rotary, engine power was controlled solely by switching the magnetos on and off ("blipping") although later developments disengaged just some of the cylinders, giving a sort of half-throttle setting.

[forddeliveryboy]

Jumo isn't actually an engine designation, it just stands for Junkers Motorenwerke, the engine factory owned by Junkers.

 

Ah - thought it sounded a bit of an odd name for an engine designation, thanks for the info.

[Taff]

Sherman tank had a radial engine.

 

Plug changing was left to the sqn nig, as a rule

[saucedoctor]

By way of explanation, 'nig' in the above context refers to "new in green", i.e., a relatively new recruit, or someone new to the unit.

 

I think the BFG lot used it for "new in Germany", too.

[dome]

back the fuck away!

 

It's either that or a ropey MGTF... The RX8 (231BHP) has apparently had a rebuld recently as well as new coils and spark plugs. Tempting, although it will need demongifying to lose the gold wheels and carbon bonnet...

[catsinthewelder]

The changeover to CO2 based tax was 2001 but it's only post 2006 vehicles that are in the £500pa rate.

[Pillock]

I saw an RX8 at Santa Pod at the weekend. Not on the strip, but in a corner of their field by the entrance with the grass up to the door handles.

 

Might* be broken.