Does Miata have rotary engine?
Patrick Besong
a conventional engine can? Is it hard to find someone who can do it?
Cost? Was considering buying a used one and wondered.
Houtex
No, it has an inline four up front, and in a RWD configuration.
Therefore, it is a 'standard' rebuild proceedure.
The RX7 is the only production car to currently employ the use of the
Rotary type engine, and it looks like Ford's gonna force Mazda to
either put it in something else, or can it. If can it gets the vote,
then the RX7 will likely be toast too. This is stuff I read in
AutoWeek.
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Patrick Besong
Aaron M. Gold
>Does the Miata have a rotary engine?
No, it's got a conventional piston engine.
The RX-7 is the only rotary-powered Mazda these days.
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Michael Simons
> The RX-7 is the only rotary-powered Mazda these days.
WRONG: Mazda also builds the CRONOS that's rotary-powered. But it's only sold
in Japan.
Michael.
Aaron M. Gold
Hey, I'm an American, the world revolves around us, right? :)
Asim Imam
>Does the Miata have a rotary engine? If so, can they be rebuilt the way
>a conventional engine can? Is it hard to find someone who can do it?
>Cost? Was considering buying a used one and wondered.
The Miata does not have a rotary engine. Instead, it has a four cylinder
in-line unit borrowed from the 323. The cam-covers are of a different design,
though. This has infact been one of the major criticisms of the Miata. Its
sporty sounding exhaust note is due to extensive (and expensive, I guess)
acoustic fiddling of the silencer by Mazda's engineers.