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Old 04-09-2012, 07:18 PM   #213
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Originally Posted by spin9k View Post
^ well, 238HP isn't too shabby, but in reality they way HP is figured and due to the combustion cycling of the rotary, it is customary to compare its 1.3L with a 2.6L piston engine. I'd say it's HP is fairly decent for a NA engine (given that comparison), just sometimes wished Mazda had added an FI option somewhere along the RX-8 lineage...
I was wondering why no one mentioned the 2x displacement thing yesterday, but I don't rotary so I didn't want to interject.
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