Ford = EcoBoost
 GM = Ecotec
  Harold Lunt

 Yeah, I'm still getting 47MPG with my '92 GEO METRO!!! No air,
 1625 lbs with 1/2 tank fuel, 3 cyl, 5 speed.  Such progress we've
 been making  :)

 Dan F

 Yup, you have to love progress. 1970 Mazda 1200 Coupe' got 40 MPG.
 Same body as a R100 but a piston engine with carb. R100 had some
 braces to stiffen it, so it was about 100# heavier. 1200 Coupe' was
 about 1700#. Went like stink with a RX2 engine.

 Dale Davies

 Same goes for my RX2. Weight was 2300 pounds while my RX8 is over
 3000 pounds with essentially the same weight engine. There was more
 interior room in the RX2.

 Perhaps we are letting the wrong people make decisions.
 When first introduced, the Volt carried a $41,000 sticker, though it
 qualified for a $7,500 federal tax credit. Is this the GM EV all
 over again? Why are we, the taxpayers, having to subsidize these
 unpopular cars?

 Paul Lamar

 My '73 RX3 was getting 18 city and 20 hiway Imperial miles to the gallon.
Thanks to the emission systems of the day. I got and installed the Racing
Beat
jets and milage went to 28MPG imperial on the hiway. That is about 23 MPG
US
gallons. That is without over drive transmission. RX3 was a bit lighter
than
the RX2. I loved racing V8 cars, beat lots and put an insult to lots of
others
even if I did not beat them. They thought they would totally loose that
"Jap
scrap" in the dust. Fooled them. With a header I made myself I figure I
must
have had close to the 130HP advertised for the JDM cars. With just over
2000#
weight the power to weight looked good in my favor. With a 5 spd trans and
EFI
that car should be into the 30 something imperial MPG or 25+ US MPG. I
wish I
had that car today and put the RX8 6 spd trans in it.
 An upgrade to RX7 brakes would be seriously needed. RX8 p-port engine
would
give it 300HP in a light car. Yahoo!

Dale Davies



Rx8 PP, is the way of the future. With the side port exhausts it has
basically the same port timing as the earlier standard motors and larger
exhaust port area. No race overlap like the earlier PP's, a motor
that idles normally and makes power right through the bottom end,
with all the benifits of the PP top end. And you wont stiffle it with short
exhaust primary length, a quieter exhaust, and you can turbocharge as well.
I cant wait to get my hands on one and PP it, has anyone else built one?
Id love to find out if Im right hehe. Havent seen an example out here in NZ,
as yet.

Sam Watson

http://www.rotaryeng.net/RX8.html
http://www.rotaryeng.net/RX8-p-port.html