[Dave at Pelican Parts]

I haven't measured or anything, but I do know that the engine in my folks pair of 2nd-gen Rx-7s are REALLY tiny! If you don't count all the A/C, power this, power that, cooling, etc.

My pipe dream is that you could somehow put the motor in the engine bay, and have two small radiators lying flat (or at an angle), one on each side of it. A pair of downdraft carbs or REALLY simple manifolds for EFI/whatever would go upwards. You could duct air for the induction down from the engine lid, and air for the radiators either downward next to the induction intake, or upward from the bottom. If you went up from the bottom, of course, you'd have to provide an exit of some kind for the air. Perhaps ducting through the rear trunk, or out the back of the car? Electric fans would be an absolute necessity, of course!

I wasn't talking about a Tetsterossa-type layout; I think the "acre-wide rear end" looks pretty stupid actually. Just something where you didn't have to cut up the front trunk, and hopefully didn't have to cut any external sheet metal at all! I like the idea of a stock-looking car that had all the POWER of a rotary in it. And effectively no red-line--at least, not for the motor. I bet you can blow up a 901 pretty easily by running the input shaft at 10,000 RPMs though... ;^)

As I said, it's a pipe dream. Even if I had a spare roller to experiment with, AND a spare rotary, I probably wouldn't do it.

--DD