I have heard that mazda made a 4 rotor engine in the 70's. Anyone know anything about this. I was thinking this could be a great new powerplant. Any info appriciated

 

https://www.rx7club.com/rotary-car-performance-77/just-curious-about-26b-627815/

Search before you ask. People here will thrash you if you don't.


And you'd need at least 25k for a 4 rotor conversion.....

 

I could see it being done for sub 20k by a very skilled fabricator.

 

Grant from Granny's Speed Shop made a 4 rotor from scratch for his outlaw dirt track racer.

http://members.tripod.com/~grannys/4rotor.html

550 hp N/A is pretty impressive.

 

Jeff Bruce is the guy that machines the stuff for the Kiwi-RE kits. I have a feeling that if you were to go to him, you could get all that stuff in the kit for less than $5000. The NZ/US exchange rate helps a bit.

But beyond that, there IS a lot of extra parts you'd need to assemble it all and so that's where the big cost will come in. It should be fairly do-able for less than 20k though.

 

AMV, US importer for Kiwi's 4 rotor parts names: CLR's Carlos Lopez as their exclusive engine builder.
Pics of CLR's work is featured on AMV's website, under rotary engine building.
Rumor from some creditable suppliers has it they are building a 4 rotor Turbo FD for the street.

 

Not a chance. Unless you are going to do the majority of the work yourself.

 

yes i'm building a 4rotor motor with amv racing and carlos lopez. and its goin in to a fd. its goin to be street driven.