with these given dimensions and horsepower ratings, I really feel like what we have here is an early Miata/BRZ. Subcompact with lots of high reving hp with a low displacement small engine.

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You can do this already using a fairly cheap Android powered mini-pc that looks almost exactly like this thing. It will run web browsers and any Android app from the Google Play store. Once you plug in a wireless dongle for a wireless keyboard/mouse combo like the Logitec Kr400, you've basically got a decent…

I always pity the fool who owns one when I see one out there. I bet they're costlier to maintain than a supercar.

there are rotary engine airplanes and then piston engines arranged in a rotary configuration.

yes, and all those hoses are rubber which means that placing them close to a source of heat will degrade them into brittle cracked hoses very fast. Oh yes, they are right near the turbos which glow red hot.

I totally agree. The whole Wankel rotary cult is completely misguided. The rotary isn't a practical application and the fact Mazda put turbos on that was simply sheer madness for a daily-driver mass production car. That and a turbo sequencing system that is completely asinine by any standard.

My expectations were that the RX7 would be more reliable and require less downtime than something made in Italy. I was wrong.

The RX8 is not a fair comparison. The RX7 had 2 red-hot glowing turbos that the oil supply was in charge of keeping cool. The same oil supply that needed to keep the engine fed for the same anti-knock properties you mentioned (burning oil to prevent pre-detonation). The RX7's turbocharging + the overly complex…

My 93 Mazda RX7 FD3S. I bought it used in 98. It had 72K miles on the clock. Engine blew an apex seal in the first 300 miles. Thankfully had 3rd party extended warranty. TWO rebuilt engines later, a rebuilt twin turbo, new wiring harness, new sequential vacuum control unit (70 rubber vac lines to control turbos),…

one time I served a customer his Big Mac and he called me a bad name so I cut him up into pieces and threw him into the burger patty processor we have in the back. True story.

see: The X Files, LOST, and a bunch of other shows that started off strong, got popular, and were forced to find ways to NOT progress forward too fast because god forbid some main character be tossed aside when there might be 10 years worth of seasons to be had.

same thing happened here except I'm the father. Did my first and last half IM. A few months later, my first son was born. I did my last sprint distance tri a couple of months later because it was a company team thing. Between work and spending time with my child, I dropped training. Years went by. Baby #2 came…

gatorate is shit. i dilute it down to 2x water. I also carry with me something I saw from an 80yr old Ironman triathlete at the Kona world championship NBC coverage - a small baked (microwaved) potato. That is some good carbs when your tank feels empty.

there's no former triathlete. once a triathlete, always. even if you let yourself go to shit.

sometimes, allowing a kid to get bored is a good thing to stimulate creativy, but on the other side of boredom, you need to lay out options that are constructive such as pens, paper, sculpting dough, musical instruments, tools, sports implements. Not just an xbox and a TV.

You give them something they really like. Then use threats of taking it away to obtain compliance.

no, your dog dying is sad but it doesn't belong up there.

agreed. I owned a Honda Civic in the mid 90s. Hatchback, vtec, supercharged. Fun little car, but it understeered quite a bit and would pitch up and spin its wheels begging for better traction. A miata with that much HP would perform much better. 5.7sec for a lightweight car with 310+hp is not that good. My…

oh right. Then they'll board the supercarrier and this ematiated little man will say "Look at me, I'm the captain now"