It looks like without end in the past since Rob Dahm’s began his four-rotor AWD Mazda RX-7 venture. What initially began life as a 3-rotor pace machine advanced right into a do-it-all racecar for the street with one further rotor and two further pushed wheels, and after 6 years, it’s lastly completed.
In his newest video, Dahm introduced the automotive to SEMA, during which it went on show amongst the a whole lot of different ludicrous tuner automobiles there. In all honesty, when you didn’t know what you had been , the Mazda appears to be like fairly delicate contemplating what it’s, with its muted but elegant paint and molded widebody equipment devoid of any rivets.
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Nevertheless, all that subtlety flies out the window the second you see flames taking pictures out the fenders and listen to an exhaust that sounds extra at house in a sure ’90s Le Mans racecar than a road-legal automobile. Close to the tip of the video we get a peek on the engine bay, and unsurprisingly, it’s spectacular. The turbocharged 4-rotor Wankel engine pumps out a whopping 1,240 hp (1,257 PS / 924 kW), which is over 300 hp (304 PS / 223 kW) greater than what the 787B provided.
One of many different primary highlights of this automotive is that it now sends that energy to all 4 wheels as an alternative of solely the rear two. That AWD system was borrowed from a Nissan GT-R, and it permits the FD RX-7 to considerably mitigate what would usually be a ridiculous quantity of wheelspin at launch.