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Old 01-18-2006, 01:18 PM   #70
Chris V
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Re: Engine swaps we like and hate.

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Originally Posted by fallenprnce
a Swap I HATE, i absoloutley despise anything but a rotary in an rx-7 (makes the car handle like a bag of ass), and i hate to see such an amazing peice of engineering go to waste by putting something with ONE underhead camshaft in it.
Puleeze. It's been proven many times (on here and on RX7 forums) that that is simply not true, unless the person swapping it SPECIFICALLY was building a drag race car. And in that case, any of the rotary powered drag RX7s are just as bad, right? I mean, they don't handle good anymore, even though they still have rotary engines, right?

As the scale slips and even video have shown, V8 RX7s tend to have identical or better weight distribution than stockers. PERIOD.

Oh, and the "amazing piece of engineering" is simply an 1800s era oil pump modded to run on gasoline. You knew that, didn't you?
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