We have those 10 straight from the assembly line in japan 3rd gen rx7 engines and I finally got free to get some of them going. I did a few pics with my camera phone of them. All I had to do was add the thermohousing and gasket/bracket to them and they are good to ship. Not often you get your hands on a brand new engine for a car they no longer build so I thought it was kinda cool. They have changed my work schedule up some, now I spend the morning build rx8 engines. I have to do 3 engines a day now to help the line out, I knock those out in 2-3 hours and lately I have to go finish off the rx7. I have 4 rx7 motors to finish off this week. BTW when I say build the rx8 motors the way it work is one station puts the rotors together and puts the stationary gears/ gaskets in the housing and then we build it completely up from there. Takes about 30-45mins per motor to do. I have been initialing the extension bolt with J to see if mine ever come back since I check them in anyways. Anyways here are the rx7 shots....

Box shot.





All finished, I just left the tap they put on the ports/elsewhere, only thing I touched on the engine was the thermohousing tape for the gasket/housing to be installed.

 

very nice it would b awesome to b working with these rotaries everyday!

 

that's a pretty engine!!

 

Thanks for the inside scoop, I think the rotary community really appreciates that sort of thing, seeing the inner workings of the manufacturer and all....

 

Thanks for the pics... virgin in the rough.....

 

Let us know when you have a 16x.

 

So how much for one?

 

Cool pics and post as always, thanks for keeping us in the loop.

Sorry if you've mentioned this before and I missed it - but what exactly are they doing with the REW engines? Putting them into old 3rd Gens brought in for dealer service, or what?

 

yeah any news of the 16x?

 

They cost whatever the dealership charges you for a rx7 rebuilt engine, but you get a new one in the end since thats what we will have in inventory. Just like the 2009 rx8's, we have about 8 new engines for them until we have to rebuild them ourselfs when we a are out of them.

I honestly didn't even know about the 16x until I just did a search on it, I might have to ask our general manager at our plant about it. He is from Mazda japan and is pretty high up on the corporate ladder. Its sad that when I read the zoom zoom magazine I realized I met 2/3 of the engineers who made the Miata one day when they did a visit to the plant. They thanked all of us and I just assumed they were nobody at all and then I saw them in the article.

Gotta remember I still live in the Z world, I spent my holiday break getting to a fuel injector on my Z.....I really hate/love my car soo much at times. You ever want to know anything about a s30 or z32 I can usually tell you but I am learning from you all/work about the rotary still.

 

So how can I get one? who do I call? Keep the 16X on the down low. Thats Mazdas Ace in the hole.

 

You gotta go through the dealership to buy one, I have heard they run $3-4k with a $1k core return. Figure in the end you get brand new everything unlike normal rebuilds, so it has zero miles on everything and was assembled in Japan like they used to be....well except I bolted on the thermo housing myself when it got here and I initialed the thermo housing for the hell of it. This is for the 3rd gen MT only, we have a AT from cat reman still to get rid of before we build any of those.

 

sleepy-z: yeah if you wouldnt mind asking your manager about any inside scoop on 16x development....that would be great. I have a feeling it won't be in a sports car until 2012 or so, but if they are making steady progress on it, that's all I can hope for.

 

so figure $2,500 for a brand new short block? did I read that right?

 

now it makes me wanna go buy some beat up FD, then order a "rebuilded(new)" engine to swap it.

 

I have no idea what the dealers are charging honestly but there is a core charge involved so you would get 1k back in the end.

 

I love mazda and I don't know who they are. I love my 8 and I don't know who our engineers are.

 

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