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Old 01-26-2006, 04:19 PM   #77
Chris V
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Re: Engine swaps we like and hate.

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Originally Posted by BCS1988
I guess I'm a bit of a rotor-head, but I think anything other than a Rotary engine gracing the engine bay of the RX-7 is blasphemy and is mollesting "teH chassis".
This is the part I don't get. these are mass produced compromises. mechanical devices designed by people and built on a robotic assembly line. How can swapping out one method of exploding dead dinosaurs for propulsion for another be "blashemy" or "molestation?" They work better than they did stock. They have no souls, and they have no feelings.

And they aren't even rare or valuable (when dead ones are under $500, nice ones can be had under $2500, and rotary enthusaists tell other rotary enthusaists not to pay more than $500 for one that's perfect other than the engine, then how can ANYONE shed a tear for a car that is been lovingly rebuilt by an enthusiast owner? Especially when they've been proven to work so well?)

No one says people have to make them V8s, so why say they have to be rotary?
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