Rotaries: was Buick V6

[Seth]

Well, the scale I was using could be off, but I would rather believe
that scale than info off the web. What I weighed was a 12A. I can't
remember if it had a thermal reactor manifold or not. I remember being
really surprised at how heavy it was.

-Seth

bill.shurvinton at nokia.com wrote:
> 
> Hi Seth,
> 
> Did some more research last night and the official Mazda figures for a
> 13B TII, including manfolds, turbo, IC, clutch and flywheel is 377lbs,
> so the manifolds must be fairly industrial grade. A 13B 6-port equally
> laden is 'apparantly' 338 (please note these are WWW figures so have
> +/-50% tolerance;-). Just goes to show how confusing short block figures
> can be when I have my brain turned off.
> 
> Boy am I glad I'm not using the stock inlet system. Based on some quick
> sums I should be easily under 300lbs all up. We will see.
> 
> Bill
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Seth [mailto:sethea at mediaone.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 1:38 AM
> To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
> Subject: Re: Rotaries: was Buick V6
> 
> I think I would know if the gearbox was attached!  Like I said, it had
> manifolds and alternator, but you have to remember they are nearly solid
> iron.
> 
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