why do people put rotors in bongos for ford utes and even a toyota carona! what or is the advangage/dissadvantage
jason18,
May 26, 2:35am
Because they want too! Lots of disadvantages.
deanfreeman,
May 26, 2:37am
wtf is the point just dont see why yeah they may be smaller and lighter but whats wrong with the motor that origonally came built into that car dont get sum people
jokerboss,
May 26, 2:42am
why do they put big v8's in the same cars as well! similar question. cos 'we' can
tortron,
May 26, 3:00am
so you aren't a car guy then
jason18,
May 26, 3:24am
People have the right to put what they choose in their car. As long as its legal i have no problem and i dont really care if its not legal as long as they dont hit anyone. It would be a pretty boring life if we were all the same.
johnf_456,
May 26, 3:25am
I take it you dont modify cars
foxdonut,
May 26, 5:26am
Rotaries in old Toyotas and vans immediately up the "retard quotient" of the people who put rotaries in cars in the first place - its needed so they can fit in better with their peers and associates.
There is no practical advantage or actual benefit in doing it.
jason18,
May 26, 5:26am
I had a rotary ke20. Loved it and hated it. Hell of a lot better than the old 3k it use to have. Locked diff was lots of fun.
bluecambridge,
May 26, 6:17am
rotaries, you either love or hate them, but the point is that throughout the history of the automobile people have modified cars just because they can.it's a passion, a hobby, it's fun, it gives you something to swear at over the weekend when you're lying underneath the beast with a face-full of oil.
richardmayes,
May 26, 6:40am
Sometimes the motor that originally came built into the car is really, really sh!thouse.
I drove a little Mazda van up the line to Rotorua years ago. Woefully underpowered. Milk trucks and then cattle trucks and then Maui campervans were queuing up to overtake me. Didn't even need to be a hill, any slight uphill slope in the ground at all and speed would be down to 80km/h or less.
I could see the appeal of having a turbo RX7 engine by the end of that trip.
I don't think I could wear my cap at the correct angle or my jeans low enough around my behind to pull off the proper look for a rotary van driver however.
wrong2,
May 26, 6:49am
im a car guy. i also go "wtf - why would you want too"
carstauranga001,
May 26, 6:58am
About a quarter of a century ago I helped a guy with an Escort rally car in the service team. He had a small budget and ran a SOHC 2 litre. Went well and as he got faster wanted more power. Couldn't afford a BDA so we fitted a rotary. Big job cutting firewall and tunnel to fit gearbox in. Went like a shower of sh*t though for a budget team.
un_known,
May 26, 7:27am
i had a hard time understanding why the rear drive mazda 323s seemed to boom in popularity. back in the early mid 90's those cars were luaghed at for the POS"s they are.then a bunch of rotor nuts who cant afford an rx3 start a trend of putting rotors in them and i wondered why anyone do that to such a crap car.wasnt until i found out how light they really are that it started to make sense. of course teh side effect from this was it increased the models "street cred"and people thinking that non rotored 323's are cool and expecting 5k+ for them.
but yeh putting a rotor in a van is just silly, i think they only do it because rear drive cars suitable for rotory transplants are harder to find.on the plus side vans generally have low gearing which is importnant for a rotary.
theres a good article in the latest Australian Muscle Car mag about the old Group C touring cars, they did an interview with Allan Moffat talking about the RX7 he raced and how it dominated the v8s apart from the tracks with hills and how it had terribly low torque.
un_known,
May 26, 7:38am
Ive found that alot of people who buy modified 323's corollas starlets as well as a bunch of people who "cruise the strip" are really just trend followers who arent really car people and dont know a damn thing about them they just do it to "look cool".I knew some young stupid girls bought a nice looking corolla ke30 i think, anyway they bought it because they thought it was a rotary, turned out to be a cammed 4k, took some guys to tell them that though. their response "well it sounds like a rotor".it didnt, sounded far nicer than any rotor.lol
sr2,
May 26, 8:11am
There??
un_known,
May 26, 9:44am
id quite like to put a rotor my mx5. hell they shouldve made them factory like that. nice high revving carbd 12a.anyone here race pro 7!those guys do some cool stuff with minimal mods 11000 rpm anyone!
ct9a,
May 26, 8:16pm
end of the day none of them will ever be a RX
sr2,
May 26, 9:25pm
I've had the opportunity to drive a 13B powered MX5. I thought it was a well balanced package, great power delivery combined with the legendary MX5 handling made for a fast, fun drive. What's stopping you!
rotormotor7,
May 28, 9:33am
geez this is a first.20 posts now and no-one has bagged the rotary engine yet harping on how crap they think it is!though i'd never see the day.
anyway my take is its really a race/sportengine, better placed in a well handling sports car rx7 being an example.
i get mazda building car bodies and selling either 4 banger or rotor but IMO the rotary engine was finally correct in being chucked in the rx7 (exception being the cosmo) not family cars.
that said i love all the early mazda rotories ,great development for the engine(my model car collection reflects this)
grangies,
May 28, 9:38am
There'll be bugger all Mazda rotories left soon, so it will be a thing of the past.
ninja_man,
Apr 13, 7:06am
so you are a guy car who knows nothing about rotarys! maybe they did an engine swap to make the car lighter! faster! sound better! more unique! just think about those.
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