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Old 08-21-2003, 04:00 AM
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I was talking to a friend of mine who's a big Nissan nut the other night. He knows I'm into RX-7s so he tells me that Nissan actually made a version of the Silvia with a rotary engine. Was he just yanking my chain, or was there really such a model?



If so, who made the engine that was used? Was it a Nissan, or did they buy a Mazda(or some other manufacturer)?
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Old 08-21-2003, 04:55 AM
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I'm guessing it was a nissan motor. More than one company bought rights to use the Rotary, not sure if nissan was one of them but...



Chevrolet had a concept 4-rotor Corvette

Ford had a concept rotary mustang I believe as well.
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Yup.



http://www.emergent.com.au/200sx/faq_1.html



See S11/S110 Silvia, just scroll down a bit.



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wow, thats interesting



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Very interesting..
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Old 08-21-2003, 04:29 PM
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never knew that either
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Old 08-21-2003, 10:29 PM
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Its an interesting site, but it doesn't go into any details about the engine.



Anybody got any info on it specificly?
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That's cool.
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you learnn something new every day!
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