ReverendDexter wrote: For instance, the 13B-REW. How many get tossed in favor of LS1s? How long before we start seing LSRX-8s?
A customer of ours is putting an MZR (ie, Duratec, ie, current Miata engine) into an RX8. Add on a turbo and he figures it'll be less hassle than the Renesis.
If you want weirdo engines, you have to look at bikes. Square two-stroke fours? Oval pistons?
Some of those are pretty weird. I'd never heard of an 'H' pattern before.
And as for rotary, the 20B was the three-rotor, didn't the 787B Le Mans car have a four-rotor engine? Is that the highest number of rotors in a Wankel?
Here are a couple of Aussie bodies with rotary engines that were sold back into Japan
http://mrec.rotary.net.nz/articles/roadpacer.htm
Not a high point 
Aussie 308 GM-H
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_V8_engine
The Dodge Hemi slant six.
Funny, most of the forgotten engines I've seen here have generally been forgotten for a reason.
My favorite is the 225 oddfire buick v6.
ignorant wrote: Funny, most of the forgotten engines I've seen here have generally been forgotten for a reason. My favorite is the 225 oddfire buick v6.
All they did was fix the crankpins and it eventually became one of GM's best selling, longest running, highest output engines.
MGA Twin Cam
Trans_Maro wrote: All they did was fix the crankpins and it eventually became one of GM's best selling, longest running, highest output engines.
yes, but the 231 never seemed to make the torque that the 225 did.
ignorant wrote: Funny, most of the forgotten engines I've seen here have generally been forgotten for a reason. My favorite is the 225 oddfire buick v6.
I believe I had one of those in a 64 Olds F-85.
spitfirebill wrote:ignorant wrote: Funny, most of the forgotten engines I've seen here have generally been forgotten for a reason. My favorite is the 225 oddfire buick v6.I believe I had one of those in a 64 Olds F-85.
what a total beeotch to tune, as when they were running right they always sounded a bit off.
Wonkothesane wrote:Keith wrote: Add on a turbo and he figures it'll be less hassle than the Renesis.I've seriously never understood this? How will it be less hassle? He doesn't want to check his oil level every 1500 miles or so? That's just too much?
I agree. My 85 RX-7 is still going strong at 240,000 + miles. I did run pre-mix in it, as does the current owner.
Chrysler turbine engines from the 60s have been pretty much forgotten.
I was always fascinated by the small-displacement (2.5 liter) oversquare hemi V8 that Daimler developed in the 1950s as well. Bet that thing revved nice....
ignorant wrote: Funny, most of the forgotten engines I've seen here have generally been forgotten for a reason. My favorite is the 225 oddfire buick v6.
My dad ran one of those as his jeep motor forever. Then he decided he really wanted fuel injection, and despite him being a total junkyard hound and DIYer, I just couldn't get him to go with a Megasquirt (which is the only setup I know of that would've let him keep the oddfire), and he ended up swapping in an evenfire.
I think I could've persuaded him if I didn't live 5 hours away 
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