LOL! That's some funny stuff!

I enjoy watching those people make complete fools of themselves. I think my personal favorite is that putting a piston engine in an RX-7 means it is no longer an RX-7, since the R stands for 'Rotary'.

It is impossible to have an intelligent conversation with those types of people.

I see my dad do this all the time. It's called lieing to yourself. I think it's just a feature of some people's thought processes.

It goes something like this: at some point you form an opinion based on the available facts of the day and your personal preferences. 10 or 20 years pass and the situation changes dramatically and the conclusions that you've once drawn are no longer valid. Some people just don't allow themselves to re-form opinions based on new evidence. They are stuck in the past.

The fact is that the turbo rotary in 1986 given the competition of the day a viable contender in terms of output. 200hp would put you in pretty elite company and v-8s were fairly unrefined and
basically the same old designs with muddled, poorly thought out induction and emissions systems. What has happened in the last 15 years is all of the technology that was used to make little engines keep up with big engines has been applied to big engines. Like I said back in the day, "Can you imagine the result of all this techology in the 4 cyls scaled to 5 or 6 liters?" The result is the current Corvette, Mustang, BMW v-8 powerplants (and a lot more I can't think of right now)

Their minds haven't been able to adapt to that new reality. Or they are in the denial stage...

R also stands for reciprocating...

There is a reason why all of us chose to go though the effort of installing piston engines in our Mazdas. It's the same reason that no Corvette owner has ever installed a Mazda engine in his Corvette...

That Issac idiot has to be the most ignorant stupid ass punk I have ever come across on that board. I swear to god if I ever see him, I would have to hurt him, badly! I know that's wrong but I just can't help saying it. OK, I feel better now.


But not as good as if I could just grab him by the neck and..... umm sorry guys, there I go again. But man, WHAT A MORON! Ok I'm done.

Toughguy

One person made a very interesting point about conversions being essentially prototypes, which I believe is the most valid objection to a swap. Of course that got lost in the nonsense....

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Anybody know the story of the P51 Mustang? First entered service in WWII with the Allison V12 and was an OK plane. Then some numbnut had the whacky idea of installing a Merlin V12 in that plane. They completely ruined it!! (and made it the premiere fighter of WWII in the process) but they ruined it!!