The MGB mentioned below lives here in Chapel Hill, NC. If I recall
correctly, it was raced some after its conversion. I think it has a
really nice exhaust note. It's funny how little of the engine bay that
Mazda engine takes up. I may see the owner tomorrow if there are specific
questions anyone wants anwered.
John Middlesworth
72 MGB
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, The Richards wrote:
> At 12:21 PM 10/1/97 -0400, you wrote:
> >Along the same vein of a 5 speed conversion, anyone out there take a 12a
> >Mazda rotary engine from a 79-85 RX-7 and transmission and install it in a
> >B?? It's been talked about on the Mazda list before, but since no one there
> >knows MGs, it's a short lived thread...
>
> There was a rotary powered MGB in the Special Interst Sports classification
> for the Gathering, in Winston-Salem NC, April of this year. It ran,
> body/interior needed work. Sounded like a rotary engined car. It was for
> sale, the guys who drove it in looked like Deadheads or sumthin. . . wonder
> what kinda state of mind they were in when they conceived the rotary notion:-)
>
> Michael, New Bern, NC
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