Up on the rooftop reindeer pause; out jumps good old Santa Claus. That's right, it's time to start dreaming of a bridge-ported Christmas because Mazda has just announced that the elves are going to start resupplying brand new parts for the FC and FD RX At present, this is a Japan-only program, launching in a manner similar to Mazda's current parts and restoration services for the first-generation Miata.
The parts list stretches to roughly 90 items, ranging from vacuum hoses to bolts, washers, and seals. All will be available to order from Mazda dealerships in Japan. To those familiar with Mazda's NA Miata restoration program , the move is hardly a surprise. Brand ambassador Nobuhiro Yamamoto, formerly head of the current MX-5's development, was a powertrain engineer on the twin-turbo third-generation RX An unofficial translation of Mazda's Japanese press release echoes these sentiments.
We would like to provide an environment where customers can continue to drive their RX-7s with peace of mind, continue to preserve the rotary engine, and deepen ties with fans who love RX-7 over time. T he company wants to foster a society where not only new cars but also old cars can be valued and contribute to the automobile culture of the world. It cannot be overemphasized how central the rotary engine is to Mazda's identity.
And what makes this car even more special is the fact that it has been built in Europe. First of all, there aren't that many FC s on the continent to begin with, at least not that many Turbo ones.
Secondly, those who do get to drive those cars around, don't often go that far in terms of tuning them, as most of their budgets are being spent on maintaining them functional. It all started with a game of Gran Turismo I got in touch with Gianluca Nacciareti, a years old petrolhead from the north of Italy.
Gianluca is the owner of this Turbo II, and I was curious to learn more about his story. Keep an eye out for painted center consoles and dashboards—they were black from the factory, as were the door handles, carpets, and headliner.
Americans were offered four different trim levels when ordering an RX-7 from Mazda. Base cars came standard with a limited-slip differential, tape player, and cloth seats, but you could get cruise control and leather upholstery added as options.
Although the names were different, the content was the same: sunroof and cruise control delete, upgraded springs, Bilstein shocks, strut bar under the hood, additional oil cooling, suede seats, and a front-lip spoiler matched by a rear wing, with no extra equipment available and a reversion back to the simple tape deck as opposed to the Bose system.
R2 springs are slightly softer than in the R1. On the JDM side, things are a little murkier. One of the other, more-striking differences between Japanese-market RX-7s and those sold in the U. By they were joined by the unit Type RZ, which shed the rear seats and added aggressive Showa shock absorbers, Recaro seats, and a lightweighting program that dropped 66 pounds from the already-svelte Type R.
Each and every third-generation Mazda RX-7 featured the same twin-turbo 1. Making use of a pair of sequential turbos with one designed to deliver low-rpm boost and the other coming on around rpm , the engine was advertised as delivering horsepower at rpm and lb-ft of torque at rpm, with an rpm redline.
These numbers were enough to launch the RX-7 to 60 mph from a standing start in just five seconds, thanks in large part to its pleasingly-low pounds of curb weight. There have been entire volumes written about the saga of maintaining, modifying, and otherwise living with the high-tech marvel that is the 13B-REW, and nearly as much hand-wringing about its reliability.
Anything lower than 85 psi and you could be looking at a rebuild in the near future. Poor compression can often be linked to either a leaking side seal or broken apex seal. Are you looking at RX-7s for sale? Here is what you should know before pulling the trigger.
This is an internal combustion four stroke engine but accomplishes the intake, compression, ignition and exhaust steps with a spinning rotor instead of having multiple pistons and cylinders. It by rights should not work , but it miraculously does. There are different schools of thought as to whether or not the Wankel rotary is reliable, suffice it to say if it is properly maintained then it should last at the very least , miles.
One thing to remember is you may learn from other people that the rotary burns a lot of oil.
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