Re: Neon R/T vs Dakota R/T

From: Ptturbo@aol.com
Date: Fri Jul 07 2000 - 14:10:45 EDT


The 1.3 liter displacement is like compring apples to grapefriuts.
Rotary engines have almost nothing in common with 4 stroke piston engines.
Many sanctioning bodies take the displacement numbers for the
rotary and double it, to compre it to piston engines.
That would make it a 2.6..
MV
> The RX-7 isn't a 4, FYI. If anything, it's a 1, but you can't really
> classify rotaries that way because they function so much differently than
> conventional ICEs At any rate, 280hp out of a 1.3L street engine, turbo
> or no, is damn impressive.
>



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