I have an 8 and I'm starting to think about putting together a Triumph Spitfire with a rotary engine. I'm going to swap in a Miata rear subframe and diff. I'm trying to decide between using a NA 13B engine vs a 13B-MSP. I would love to go turbo but don't know about space. I'm going rotary period. What are the advantages of the 6 port or the REW?

 

Did you ever complete your project? I am working on something similar. Would love to see pics and swap notes.

 

Last activity of this user on this forum was back in 2014, just a few days after his original post...

 

Bummer, i would have liked to have seen a finished product.

 

so did all the 9 out of 10 project owners that bailed

 

I have been enamored with rotary engines since 1970. Wrote my first mechanical engineering term paper about rotary engines.
Earlier this year I acquired a 6 port RX8 engine and six speed manual transmission.
I also bought a 1974 Jensen Healey as a recipient, but that has a Stroker 2.2 Lotus engine, too sweet to pull out..
So another possible destination is a local Opel Manta sport coupe.
Much more press about taking the Renesis OUT of the RX8 vs putting it Into something else. I see a Spitfire and Lotus 7.
how challenging would the Opel be?

Even a bone stock Renesis would be a tremendous power increase!​​