Hi there,

Mazda rotary motors are awesome.... in cars.

They develop zero torque and produce a tremendous
amount of heat and exhaust noise.  My friend Kevin
melted the exhaust on both his RX2 and RX3 at various
times.  The RX2 had the original 12A dual distributor
motor and the RX3 had a 1st generation 13B electronic
ignition motor with some mild porting.

The motor is smooth, loves to windup and you can get
insane power to displacement numbers.  It is not
suited for lugging, chugging, load pulling or confined
spaces.  It also drinks gas like a skid row alcoholic
goes through ripple.  I bet in a vanagon you would see
single digit mileage.

So, I would put a Mercedes inline six diesel or a big
block chev V8 or possibly a GE F404 motor with
afterburner in the back of my vanagon before I would
do a rotary conversion (hmm.. I wonder if I would pass
DEQ with the afterburner...)

Irreverently,
Brian

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