RX-7: The Mazda RX-7: Mazda's Legendary Sports Car
Plus: Racing and Winning - Le Mans and IMSA GTO Championship, 1991
by Jack K. Yamaguchi (Author), John Dinkel (Author), Koichi Yazaki (Editor)
282 pages
Publisher: Ring Ltd.
ISBN 9784947659019

Has anybody read this book? I have Veloce Publishing's RX-7 book by Brian Long, which is superb and really hard to find.

I gather from the online reviews that it is a fairly lavish Engrish hardcover brochure with a lot of technical info.

 

I have all of the RX-7 related Yamaguchi books as well as the one for the Miata. VERY high quality, lots of great information. I recommend it!

 

Thanks! I'm glad it's still available for a reasonable price.

 

The Yamaguchi book is a must-have. It really makes you appreciate the car and the engineering that went into it.

The Long book is also an excellent book, I think it's getting harder to find though.

Dale

 

Yup, scored a brand new copy on eBay for 13 bux few months ago

 

Got all those mentioned above, plus an even better one.


Massive book on the history leading up the win at LeMans, the who what how.... Awesome.

 

Thanks, I'm ordering it now.

I also like Street Rotary by Mark Warner (ISBN 9781557885494) and RX-7 Performance Handbook by Mike Ancas (ISBN 9780760308028). Both are a little dated, but still relevant.

 

There are a couple of errors in Yamaguchi's book. Very small but I still picked them up. I have it, but its been a few years since I read it, and I dont exactly remember what the errors were. Might pull it out and re-read it again.

 

Be aware it's printed in Japanese as well as English....make sure you buy the right one.

 

I hope it's in English. Shipping from Texas and the photo showed English on the cover.

 

So I received the book and I've read about half of it so far. It's pretty astounding when you look at the engineering analysis of the suspension, etc. and it's a pleasure to see the FD parts so clean and pretty in the gorgeous color plates. It does make me more interested in getting some Series 8 parts into my car... not sure how much work that would involve or how practical it would be, though.

I'm so glad that Mazda chose the body style that they did (designed by Wu-Huang Chin in Irvine, California) and I hope that they can make the same magic work in the next car.

Never Stop Challenging! is next on my list.

 

There's a couple books and cool documents here... Documents & Downloads - Freelance Motorsports LLC

Does anyone have any interesting PDF documents for us to share on the website? We'll host it for free and the site will never go down!

 

 

I just took a picture of the literature that came with my dad's FD. (it arrived yesterday) This book was one of them.

 

That's a great collection. I also have the factory service manual and Mazda RX-7 Performance Handbook by Mike Ancas, which is quite informative, in that it covers most of the basics, but it's slightly outdated.

 

My copy of Never Stop Challenging finally arrived. Nobody told me how huge it is. I'm looking forward to reading everything.

Here's the book info for those who are looking (information on the web was pretty unclear - pick one up soon because they are getting hard to find):

Never Stop Challenging!
Mazda's Conquest of Le Mans
by Pierre Dieudonné
English adaptation by David Waldron
Publisher: Apach P&P (Belgium - APACH Editions)
ISBN: 978-2-93-035456-9
Copyright Date: June 2011

 

^That is a nice collection Solscud007. Since we're on the subject...

 

any chance to have this book scanned into a pdf file?
Never Stop Challenging!
Mazda's Conquest of Le Mans
by Pierre Dieudonné

 

That’s probably copyright infringement.

 

I am interested into buy it the hard copy for my birthday coming soon but i am not interested into feed the wankel tax above it and pay stupid price for it.
Also i am away from my country and i trying to minimize the number of object i carry with me as you can take it with you on a plane only limited weight..
unfortunately this book is not sold as ebook

 

Are there any books that go super deep about the rotary engine and its technical construction? Thermal efficiency, volumetric efficiency, BSFC numbers and so on?

 

See that link in post #17. I’m not sure how deep you want to go, but the author is a mechanical engineer. I don’t have a tech background but he kept it within reach of my small brain. So I found it pretty interesting. In part to your specific question…as I recall it is discussed how the rotary is mechanically efficient but equally inefficient thermally.

 

Good place to start. Not sure it's as in depth as you're looking, but it's pretty technical.

 

I checked it out and while it goes in to detail about how the rotary works, it offers no data or comparable numbers on the subject. So it is written for laymen that wants a deeper understanding, while not needing an engineering degree to make sense of it
That said i think it is a good book for everyone that wants a deeper understanding of the principles and uniqueness behind the engines.

 

Try this one perhaps, https://foxed.ca/rx7manual/manuals/R...amoto-1981.pdf