A dubious seller followed by a string of questionable performance shops weren’t enough to kill this 20B rotary FD dream.
, takes more than a week or two, even if the parts are available. There are far too many intricacies and details that must be addressed to list, but with that said, it shouldn't take over a decade, like this one did.Much of that time was well out of the control of owner Mike Wedl, who had to deal with a few bad apples along the way, including a shady seller and a few performance shops that aren't worth mentioning.
With two years of daily duty, Mike began tearing the car down and its first version included a built 13B with a single turbo. He adds, "The opportunity arose to purchase a freshly rebuilt AutoEXE 20B, so I jumped on it." Too good to be true, the engine arrived and upon further inspection, looked to be in very bad shape. To make matters worse, the seller suddenly went radio silent and was never heard from again.
If you were to crack open Mike's 20B, you'd find S5 rotor housings, S4 rotors, all new seals and O-rings, 2-piece Apex seals, and more, and it's been balanced to 10,000rpm. There's an OEM Mazdaspeed dry sump front cover and a Ferrari internally baffled dry sump tank at play.
In an effort to shave some weight, the roof panel was replaced by a Marsch Composites dry carbon version that drops over 10 pounds from the car's highest point and the rear window was replaced by a Plastics4Performance polycarbonate version. Downforce for the rear is supplied by a hulking Esprit 1,800-mm dry carbon wing and RE Amemiya rear diffuser.
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