Those monster AWD cars aren't really 50/50 at all, the power is 85 or 90% to the rear and 10 or 15% to the front, its to help with launch and steering, but a 50/50 power distribution between front and rear axles would be a devastator for top end.

 

It also has to do with engine location in regards to the passenger cabin. I believe "front mid-engine" is a term Mazda and a few other companies started using to describe their engine placement, as most people see MR as the engine being mounted behind the passenger cabin, but in front of the rear axle.

 

damn shinobi, the chick in your avatar is fine.

 

I'd like to see a 20B-msp in the RX8. If Mazda can still get 120 hp and 80 lb-ft. per rotor, that would be 360 hp and 240 lb-ft. That'd be sweet. And how much can an extra rotor and rotor housing cost? Or weigh, for that matter.

 

WRX:
". . .a roller **** on the center console can vary the front/rear torque split from 50/50 to a rear biased 35/65."
-R&T June 2003

 

has anyone mentioned that there *was* a 20b awd fc? i have an rx7 book with pics and all. i forget who the driver was (not some nobody) but he raced the thing up pike's peak and set a record or something...

 

Check out modified mag, last issue had a Rx8 that went straight from the dealer to the garage to implant the 20B into it. Also, it had ram air, large single turbo, and all the essentials to it. Believe it was running around 950 hp. Looked fine too..

 

well the problem with a renesis 3 rotor is the exhaust ports for the center rotor. Currently theres a 3rd exhaust port that is shared by both rotors. When you throw a 3rd rotor in there, it has to share its exhaust ports with the other two, which makes it hard to extract the exhaust, not to mention making the process of tuning the exhaust nearly impossible. Which is why all the 3 rotor rx8's you see are made from 13B-REW's

 

Racer4Life:

Te entiendo perfectamente..........no problema, amigo mio..............

I should have put 2 and 2 together with the Miami thing.......

All I can say is "blah-blah-blah............ya dee ya dee ya.................

Let's talk about that *** in TooKwik's avatar...........I'd def like to wax that, yo.............(****, I'm 45 years old.........what am I doing talking like that............must get it from my 11 year old twin boys............)

 

Boy, something's flubbed up.........it posted that last response, mine, as qu8ttro???????

with one post................hmmmmmm.............

 

Acosta motorsports does a 20B conversion for the 8... they say 800+ hp... Here's the link

 

You know that RE-Amemiya actually made a mid-engined rotary-powered car, no? If there was ever an engine designed to be mounted behind the passenger's compartment (mid engine, not mid-front), it was the RE. It would allow the radiator to be mounted in the nose, ducted, without obstruction. Mount the IC units in the rear with ducts in front of both wheels via any of the modern supercars method.

 

Damn RX7TT95: Now that's what I call a list of Mods.........would love to see that car.............where in Florida are you?