Subject: early Mazda?
From: ACRE NL
Date: 3/27/2002, 10:28 AM


Royce Wise wrote:



Would anyone care to state who made this rotary?
Royce[Image]

Looks like an early Mazda. Perhaps a 10A.
No front mounted distributor is kind of strange.

Paul Lamar

No cookie for you Paul.
I would have thought that the TurboHydramatic, and the AC Delco starter would have given it away.
It is the prototype GM engine for the 74 Vega.
It looks as if the distributer is mounted in the intermediate housing.  Don't know how they would have done that, but that housing does look wider than the Mazda intermediate.
Looking at the shafts I suppose they could have machined a special drive gear to fit over the ecentrics.
I would like to have more details and pictures on the GM engines.
Royce

I sit corrected. Where did you dig up that picture? 
The rotor housing look real narrow.

Paul Lamar
 
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