Why wasnt FC's equipped with 3 rotor stock?
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Nope a 20B N/A
They built a couple 10th AEs with the non turbo 20B. They were Arctic Silver. They did testing in the USA for them.
The 89-90 GTUs was also originally designed to have a non turbo 20B.
But cost, poor gas mileage, questionable cooling and transmission choices sealed the 20B's fate in America (the biggest Rotary engined vehicle market in the world).
That would be completely a fabrication/made up. The FC was not designed to have a 3 rotor or 20B in it. The first 20B motors were not even put together until 1986... a year after the FC was first built (May 1985 as a 86 model year).
They built a couple 10th AEs with the non turbo 20B. They were Arctic Silver. They did testing in the USA for them.
The 89-90 GTUs was also originally designed to have a non turbo 20B.
But cost, poor gas mileage, questionable cooling and transmission choices sealed the 20B's fate in America (the biggest Rotary engined vehicle market in the world).
That would be completely a fabrication/made up. The FC was not designed to have a 3 rotor or 20B in it. The first 20B motors were not even put together until 1986... a year after the FC was first built (May 1985 as a 86 model year).
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Yeah... that just go's to show you how accurate Magazine articles are... They saw the testing of the 10AE models with a 20B and assumed that was what was going to happen.
Don't know on that... I did originally post it as a thumbnail then added the link in an edit.
Also, I'm still not ever seeing anything in the "attached thumbnail" section. Any reason for this? It just started a few weeks ago.
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Its not just you, its every time anyone posts it that way. If they link it like you did I can see it in the main post, but I still can't see the thumbnails. It doesn't do it all the time, but it does do it a lot. Once I get some time I'll have to experiment a bit with it, but it would be nice if it was a simple fix. Oh well.
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But the completely different cooling system, and revised transmission would have pushed it to a higher price.
The GTUs didn't sell with a cheaper non turbo 13b... can you just imagine how little they would have sold with a GTUs that was the same price as a loaded Turbo.
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http://cp_www.tripod.com/rotary/pg25.htm
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I could swear there were turbo vers that were produced... I have a commercial vid here of one... Here it is on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G861KewuVeU
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I could swear there were turbo vers that were produced... I have a commercial vid here of one... Here it is on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G861KewuVeU
So that means the only 20bt was the JC cosmo? (god I want one of those)
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I could swear there were turbo vers that were produced... I have a commercial vid here of one... Here it is on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G861KewuVeU
#48
They weren't building a hot rod.
Perhaps there was no 3 rotor because it would have been out of character with the type of car they were building. FBs were targeted at the Triumph MG crowd. FC was targeted slightly higher at the low end Porsche crowd. They were building a fun to drive sports car, not a grand touring car. Weight and handling were a bigger consideration than power.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
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Although people aftermarket have used a R type manual tranny with a 20B, it would not be durable enough to make it too 100K miles in a production street driven vehicle.
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and I know why you couldn't find the pic that mark posted. I remembered it as the roadrunner instead of the roadBURNER.
either way that was the car I was talking about. I have a better pic at home where the caption can be read clearly. I'll try to upload it sometime in the near future.
either way that was the car I was talking about. I have a better pic at home where the caption can be read clearly. I'll try to upload it sometime in the near future.