where can i get.....a 26b engine?
03-23-2008 | 09:41 AM
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Last year at the 24Hr of Daytona, I got a lead on a U.S. source for 26B's. My lead was working on a Motec tune for the importer. Alas, the name and (Florida) phone number are in a phone that is dead. It sounded like once they got the tuning issues sorted, they were going to start producing them in the U.S.
I didn't know that person before that day and have no reason to doubt him. But, he could have just as well been blowing smoke also.
I didn't know that person before that day and have no reason to doubt him. But, he could have just as well been blowing smoke also.
03-23-2008 | 09:47 AM
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in HS I had a 750 whp 1970 monty carlo ls - 454 engine - holly 4 barrel carbs -- nitrous -- etc...
Then I got an 3rd gen rx7 -- around 500 whp and never went to pistons again!
get your 26B! dooo it!
Then I got an 3rd gen rx7 -- around 500 whp and never went to pistons again!
get your 26B! dooo it!
03-23-2008 | 10:10 AM
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haha ok cause im 18 years old doesnt mean **** and who the hell cares if im in high school still like really and also i do know what a 26b engine is if i didnt why would i be talking about getting one? i want to keep my car rotary and i want the best i can get for it and there is no better rotary engine then a 26b i know most of my **** and im not dumb and now that ive looked into this more im probably goign to get a 20b cause it will probably work better in my car and be a lot easyer to get and etc. but just because im in high school still and im still young it doesnt mean **** and who the hell said i was going to get my engine swapped out right away? im not im setting a goal for myself and my car and im determined to get to it. i mean you guys can talk all the **** you want but point is its just talk and you dont really know anything about me so keep it to yourself. its really dumb how you talk **** but know nothing about me. some of the best racers today have been racing before they where even in high school so it shows how much you know about an 18 year old.
03-23-2008 | 11:08 AM
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is this car going to be a daily driver or? I know with gas prices I'd rather have a motorcycle engine swapped than anything even close to a 26b nowadays, **** man, 7-800hp and only 5-6 mpg, (maybe 10 highway? lol) good luck with that. Maybe instead of saving for an engine, you could start saving for the gas it would take first, probably going to have to have a tanker truck follow you around everywhere. 
03-23-2008 | 11:35 AM
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haha ok cause im 18 years old doesnt mean **** and who the hell cares if im in high school still like really and also i do know what a 26b engine is if i didnt why would i be talking about getting one? i want to keep my car rotary and i want the best i can get for it and there is no better rotary engine then a 26b i know most of my **** and im not dumb and now that ive looked into this more im probably goign to get a 20b cause it will probably work better in my car and be a lot easyer to get and etc. but just because im in high school still and im still young it doesnt mean **** and who the hell said i was going to get my engine swapped out right away? im not im setting a goal for myself and my car and im determined to get to it. i mean you guys can talk all the **** you want but point is its just talk and you dont really know anything about me so keep it to yourself. its really dumb how you talk **** but know nothing about me. some of the best racers today have been racing before they where even in high school so it shows how much you know about an 18 year old.
03-23-2008 | 11:43 AM
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03-23-2008 | 12:06 PM
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03-23-2008 | 01:11 PM
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03-23-2008 | 01:41 PM
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Sorry. I wasn't implying 'most' top rotary drag teams use the 20b engine, just that some top rotary drag teams use it. I've seen quite a few videos of 1000+hp 20b engines in RX-7's & RX-8's. Puerto Rico seems to have quite a few...
03-23-2008 | 01:48 PM
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Two random observations:
You're eighteen now. If you take that $40k and invest it in a fund returning 5% a year (which is extremely conservative), by the time you're forty it will have turned into $117k. Whereas if you invest it in a motor, it'll have turned into $0 (actually, probably negative dollars since you'll presumably want to do something with that motor besides admiring it in your living room).
$40k is also enough money to buy a well sorted Spec Miata and do at least thirty race weekends in it.
To each their own, but I find spending one's life savings on a motor a bit of a head-scratcher.
You're eighteen now. If you take that $40k and invest it in a fund returning 5% a year (which is extremely conservative), by the time you're forty it will have turned into $117k. Whereas if you invest it in a motor, it'll have turned into $0 (actually, probably negative dollars since you'll presumably want to do something with that motor besides admiring it in your living room).
$40k is also enough money to buy a well sorted Spec Miata and do at least thirty race weekends in it.
To each their own, but I find spending one's life savings on a motor a bit of a head-scratcher.
03-23-2008 | 09:40 PM
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Motor swaps kinda suck for anything but drag racing.... it can affect the handling characteristics of a car fairly negatively.
Just get a turbo kit for your RX-8 and that will be plenty of speed and way more hp/dollar. You could probably spend $7-8k and get 350whp.
Just get a turbo kit for your RX-8 and that will be plenty of speed and way more hp/dollar. You could probably spend $7-8k and get 350whp.
03-23-2008 | 09:42 PM
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03-23-2008 | 11:03 PM
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I want a new engine hopefully a 28b where can I get it **** I'm almost done with highschool and I think i should be having a 26b now where do you guys think is the best place to get it and then can you tell me how to put it in a car i also hurd that mazeda puts coilovers in the rotor so that the engine can is balence will da car be better with the coilover or should i get a new set i dont know what new set to get where should i or better yet what car should i get so that my 26b can fit in
To the author of the thread: read above and see it make sense.
To the author of the thread: read above and see it make sense.