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The Renesis is Getting Dirty!
I didn't know this but apparently the Superlite series trucks use mid-mounted Renesis engines, pretty cool!
The current Super Lite truck makes use of Mazda’s robust 1.3-liter Renesis rotary engine that’s normally seen in the RX-8. A dry-sump system is added in addition to a few other tweaks during the build-up, which produces a race engine that revs to 8500 rpm and registers surprisingly consistent power figures of around 240 bhp on the shop’s 2500-hp DTS engine dyno. The engines are purchased ŕ la carte through Mazdaspeed and assembled in-house for both cost and blueprinting efficiency. After assembly, the mid-mounted rotary is then mated to an H-pattern 4-speed Mendeola transaxle housing Weddle racing gears, which then drives the rear pair of series-approved 30-in. off-road tires. |
nice find! thanks!
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wow, wonder how they get any torque out of them, or is it not needed? :dunno:
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The current Super Lite truck makes use of Mazda’s robust 1.3-liter Renesis rotary engine that’s normally seen in the RX-8 |
It's been getting dirty for a few years....;)
2550lb?! What did they build it out of, concrete?! |
hahahah i was waiting for your post Phillip :)
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I keep looking at ours with all the welded steel brackets we've chucked in for the sake of tight schedules, and thinking it could do with a diet of billet ally bits.
If it came up at 2500+lb on the scales I'd be getting the angle grinder out! Must be all those shiny stickers and layers of polish and wax they put on ;) They're far too clean, here's one that's properly dirty: Attachment 248649 Shiny new parts this year for ours, reworked the suspension and uprated the cooling system so it'll cope with an Eaton M90....:smoker: |
gotta admit that is one badass hobby to get into
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It's certainly badass on the old wallet.
One race and all your shiny new parts are worn out already. |
Never knew that until now.
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Originally Posted by mscamp02
(Post 3880246)
love this sentence. robust is not usually a term I hear associated with the renny
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Originally Posted by New Yorker
(Post 3908323)
That's because you live here on RX8Club.com. In the real world, rotary engines – including the Renesis – are robust. As is mine. And tens of thousands of others you'll never read about.
:lol: Here you go again. |
I thought rotary sux0rz need to change its head gasket every 3000 miles or s0methin' ?
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New rod bolts every 2 laps.
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Got some pictures from the last event of 2010, so here's some more of a renny getting dirty:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...h_DSCF5601.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...h_DSCF5600.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...h_DSCF5596.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...h_DSCF5594.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...h_DSCF5580.jpg ;) |
thanks Phillip
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Spot the run where we smashed the front upright bearings.....:D
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