LMAO! I told my friend i wanted an RX7 and was looking for a 3rd gen eventually and he said "oh like that one on fast and the furious?" "yes!" "Wow I heard those are like lamborghinis, they have like 12 cylinders but the engines are REALLY small so they rev REALLY high!" "Yeah.... something like that but not so much...."

Quite the opposite happend in the office this week:



We have a new front desk/secretary, she's this 40 year old woman that drive a Silver Automatic Rx-8. I told her about my Rx-7 and she's like "Yea, that's the older Rotary car, right?" She then told me how she understood that her car had two "Triangular" type things that rotated and kept revolving instead of a bouncing piston, and that she loves the car and doesn't like any other new car offered nowadays... https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/bigok.gif



She's going to let me drive it around sometimes too, woot.

Oooh... an Auto RX-8... that will be a fun drive. =/

i like to explain to honda ricers how mazda invented the first "vtec" type engine system with the 6-port actuation system.



kevin.

Heh... "Why, in my day, Mazda made the best VTEC type system... and they did it without valves OR cams!"

I was on my way to work a couple of days ago when i noticed a young guy following behind who had a older passenger (maybe his dad). I noticed he was trying to explain to his older passenger using a circular and up and down motion the difference between a piston and a rotary engine.



Quite funny how alot of people don't know how they work. I know when i first heard of them it took me a while to get my head around it.

no that kid was serious about the whole cam and lifters thing... we were amazed... but i explaned to him how one worked... and i also told him he needed to take that stupid racing stripe off his car... he had a red racing strip that was offset to the passenger side that wend over the lengh of the car... pitiful sight. but yeah i have alot of buddies with civic si's or other hondas/acuras with vtec... and i explain to them all the time about the 5th/6th port valves or auxilory valves and the secondary injectors that have a similar effect to the retarded timing on vtecs... there just like "yeah whatever". stupid honda boys and their front wheel drives...

well, if your FC had a v8 swap, it'd be valid

I know a V8 FC not far from me





It's kind of neat

yeah i almost always get lucky and have my laptop around when i get asked questions about the engine.. so i just show them a pic..