People throw the hole 2.6l because each side of the rotar has 1 power stroke for every 360degrees of rotation where as your conventional 4 stroke only gets 1 every 720. it is still a 1.3l engine but has won awards in the 1.0l-1.5l and 2.4l-3.0l engine classes so ive heard.
and an 88' AE86 carola may be faster with a 200hp motor but i'd still keep the old AE in there and mod it to 100-120.... its jsut a matter of opinion. which is why i stated in my first post
"IMO LS1 powered FD is like Turbo H22 powered z28"
IMO=In My Opinion.

I've been trying to beat the reliability of a rotary into people’s heads for a while now so I'll go ahead and spill the beans.
Most rotaries that you see with blown seals or that go down well before their time are due to owner screw ups, in other words people that didn't know how to mod or build the engine.
Anyone that owns one can be called a specialist basically because you can work on one, not to say that anyone can but if you are companent(sp?) at working on a piston engine there's no reason why you can't work on a rotary.
Now I've heard horror stories of rebuilds from "specialists" that just didn't know how to build an engine to specs, they just throw parts in and let their name get drug through the mud when it blows at 50k miles. The same goes for a piston engine, if you don't know how to work in tolerances then don't play with an engine or your going to screw something up.

Now onto the ungodly power of the 10 year old cars, we can play at this all day but the fact remains that technology changes for the good allowing better power to be made and faster cars to be pumped out cheaper, how can a 10 year old car keep up to today’s technology? It can't, granted they were great cars for their time but their time is over, you can continue to build them for great power but there is a point where you run out of options and something else is going to be better.

Now onto my opinion of what Mazda should have done with the FD's, PUT THE 20brew IN THEM !!!
There was enough room in the engine compartment for them so why weren't they put in? My guess is cost and the fact that most people weren't taking proper care of the cars so they had to scrap the car in the US.

So my rant is over and I know some might not feel the same as I do but hey that’s life.

Then the 7's where replaced by the far inferior RX-8's.... why god why? mazda is sapposed to be putting a proper rotarty powered replacement by 2010 but ive only heard that once ot twice and thereh has yet to be any proof. so im begining to have my doubts...itso nly 5 years away the design team should be hot and heavy into the mechanical deisgn of the thing if they want to get it out before 2010... well we can only way and see. i know that if i am in a financial situation to buy one i will....to hold me off untill i can afford my porsche.... :iceslolan

Ive heard rumors of a come back of the RX-7, and it will be the super sport car, and the RX-8 will kinda be like the less powerfull, entry level version.

wow.
no car "replaced" the rx-7. the rx-8 is just a different approach to a rotary sports car. mazda needed something safe for the rotary to re enter the market, after it got owned by warranties on the FD.

i agree the ls1 rx7 is a good swap. but i just wonder how much it costs vs keeping the 13b; you can make close to 400hp with stock turbos (but thats the limit).

ive heard that you dont want to take them past 350... but hey, i havent owned one (i just want a 2nd gen NA as a track car. or an old 4cyl fox body stang)

4 cyl stang??? wtf? my sister had one. it was a droptop. there are 2 engines (i think) for te 4 cylinder. im not sure of the spec differences but one engine had 4 spark plugs the other has 8.

the old 80's 4cyl fox bodies...they arent fast but they can be made to handle quite well and if it last though my teen years and i get the money i will be able to drop a 5.0 in there....
im not a ford fan but hey, chevy didnt make a popular RWD sport oriented car with a small engine in mid-late 80's. only comaro's...and i refuse to ever drive a FWD car...
besides TMV on an 89 Stang LX Coupe 4cyl in avg condition is 500 and around here you can pick thoes kind of cars up for around 75% TMV...

im sorry.... i dont see your point

AutoX and something to play with... my truck will have to last me untill im at least a good part through colledge...but i still would like to have something i can drive the hell out of...