Bart_Maztra
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« on: May 20, 2007, 12:20:27 pm » |
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Hello, My name is Bart Heemskerk and i live in the Netherlands. Proud owner of a 1981 murena 1.6. I have used this car for years to go to work. And i allways was a bit dissapointed about the power. So 4 years ago i started an engine conversion. A peugeot 1900 8V. I thought i would do the job in a few weeks, but hel, i was wrong. I haven't been so wrong in my live. 3/4 of a year it was before the first ride was. And after that still 100 things to improve. During this conversion i needed an other car, because the mur was my daily driver. At a scrapyard i came across a mazda rx-7 from 1983. It had dents allover, 1 headlight was up and 1 headlihgt was down, but it had 1 year apk (mot) . So that became my temporarely daily driver. And fel in love with it. Not so much on the car, but more on the engine. And what an engine. An 1.1 liter wankel engine. And what a sound and what a power and what a smooth smoothynes! So lateron the murena 1900 engine was fitted but i was a bit dissapointed with the result. Yes, it was a lot better then the original 1600, but compared with the mazda...... The mazda is now back on the srapyard, but without the enine. Guess where the engine is now...    Mazda only mounted this engine longitudinal (is that the right word?). But i want to mount is transversal. Mazda doesn't have a transversakl gearbox to match this engine, so i had to make my own. Unfortunatly i couldn't use a murena gearbox, or the peugeot 1900 gearbox or even a citroen cx box. The flywheel of the rotary engine is simply too big to fit in these gearboxes. A toyota celica was the best option. Made an adapterplate to fit the gearbox to the engine, made engine mounts which meet the original chassis mounts. (no welding or grinding on my car!) The car is on the road now! And allthough there are several thing to improve, i am very happy with the result (and the optential). |
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krede
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« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2007, 06:14:27 pm » |
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lewisman
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« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2007, 12:36:08 am » |
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Woooow!  Wankel engine in Murena! Well, as I don't like conversions on Matra, I like this! I really am fascinated by that what everything is possible to input into the Murena  Michal I am shocked. So, you took such great offence at my suggestion of an Alfa V6 but like a Japanese copy of an NSU engine in a murena  Personally I think it is always worth a try to find a better engine (after all Matra didn't make any of them) so good on you Bart. I would always worry about the oil consumption on a Wankel and when they do go wrong you will have to take it all out again. Good luck! David |
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michaltalbot
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« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2007, 09:57:57 pm » |
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I am shocked. So, you took such great offence at my suggestion of an Alfa V6 but like a Japanese copy of an NSU engine in a murena David  well, I am sorry, Alfa or Peugeot conversion is just changing another "normal" engine to something not original, but wankel engine in Murena is something totally mad and absolutelly exotic! Of course that I will NEVER do this to my Matra (I'll rather be the last one on the circuit, but when I show my engine to somebody, I'm showing what Matra really built in early 80ties, and everybody understand to that, not something like - we say - catdog), but it is imposant to see it. It is like V8 engine in motorbike  I really hate Skoda cars. Last good Skoda was... they never built good car but old Octavia from 60ties was not bad. Than they stoped themselves on rear-engined cars till the end of 80ties and than Favorit and Felicia was something terrible. New Octavia and Fabia is from 99,9% Volkswagen, so we aren't speaking about Skoda cars. I understand, that when there were comunists, Skoda engineers was not allowed to produce better car than Russians. There were lot of beautifull projects, but it was forbiden to produce them. But the result is... that Skoda made bad cars. Now the technology is German, design is made by German hands, and in the factory there are working Ukrainian and Slovak people, so what is there Czech? Beer in their stomaches... And what I absolutely don't like are people who are making tuning on Skoda. But man, be sure that it is tuning from Your worse dreams! I will search some pics... |
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michaltalbot
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« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2007, 10:26:02 pm » |
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Bart_Maztra
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« Reply #14 on: May 22, 2007, 06:59:00 am » |
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