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Rotary engine in a Protege? - 3/3/2008 2:39:36 PM

Jefe

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does anyone know if this is possible, what would need to be done to make it work, and any idea on the headache I will have installing a rotary....

Haves:
99 Protege LX
Standard Transmission.

Needs?:
Rotary Engine (what RX should I pull this from?)
transaxle
Standard Transmission
Perf. Clutch

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

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RE: Rotary engine in a Protege? - 3/3/2008 4:09:53 PM

wsoape281

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the biggest headache that i think you would face is the wiring and the tranny. i am not sure that they ever made a transaxle for a rotary motor, so you would have to adapt the stock transaxle to fit the rotary. as for the donor, i would say that anything from the second generation up would work just fine. that is where the wiring comes in. you would have to build a wiring harness for this motor to use it's stock ecu. i think that the best bet that you could have is to go ahead and drop in an fs-ze (jdm) motor or just turbocharge the existing motor. this would cost about the same, but would involve a rebuild of the motor and a turbo kit.

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