Subject: RX-8 broke my heart

Bulent Aliev wrote:

Boys and girls, today I had a complete automatic transmission RX-8

engine

with 2000 KM and all the accessories, at my hangar. What a beautiful

engine.

It would have made my installation much simpler. But since I have

all

this

years and lots of money invested in my Cosmo, I decided to pass on

the

RX-8

since will take me another year to convert to the new engine. Soooo,

(tears

in my eyes) the RX-8 will go on Ebay with starting bid of $3600.
Hope I'm not sorry in the morning?
Bulent

Nah you don't want an RX8 auto TX engine. Big intake ports are

missing.

There is only one intake port in each end housing instead of two.

Paul Lamar

Just as I thought, that Renesis auto tx engine uses the same reduced
starter with the big plate that straddles the rear end housing and the
tranny bellhousing. As in the Cosmo 3 rotor (all were automatic) and
13BREW tt auto models from 1993-1995. They must be doing something right
with that for some reason. Does anyone know if Mazda uses this same
arrangement on any of their other models with an automatic transmission?
[Marc Wiese]

That's right Marc. The starter is even smaller than my 13B Cosmo starter.
For three days me and bunch of home builders are having head scratching
session around the engine. After trying to locate the throttle body linkage
for two days, I realized it is electric, plus two other vacuum operated
"flaps" down the line. There is a 1" tube coming up from the exhaust
manifold to a small box. I'm suspecting some kind of a vacuum "thing"?
Also the AC compressor is very small. The size of a small alternator.
Also there are two beautiful aluminum engine mounts that are ready to go
over some Berry rubber.
The coils are very small and there is one for every spark plug.
The injectors are also very tiny. The coils are triggered by one sensor
mounted under the main pulley.
I like this engine very much, but have to start from scratch with engine
mount etc....
Bulent

You don't want to use that one Bulent. Here are two pictures. One of Don's
stick shift RX8 engine and one of an auto tx engine. Notice the 
difference in the  ports.

Paul Lamar
 
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