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Hype Video: Watch A Six Rotor Mazda Engine Come To Life! Yes, I Said “SIX”!

I remember the first time I heard a three-rotor RX-7 engine.  I thought it was the greatest sound in the world.  Then, I heard a four-rotor engine; first Mad Mike’s then the Legendary BMI Racing four-rotor and I knew that four-rotors was the tip top of the mechanically melodic mountain.  However, on the horizon is an even higher plateau!  Pulse Performance Race Engineering out of New Zealand (The shop that currently works on Mad Mikes cars) has successfully built a six-rotor Mazda-based engine!  Yes, SIX!  I am not sure if this has ever been done before, but as far as I know it is the first.

The crew recently released video of the engine coming to life and sure enough it starts and runs.  Although you wont hear any redline-bouncing revs in the video, the fact that they could get something like that to start and run is amazing!  Performance numbers have not been disclosed, nor has the time it took the team to build it or how they pulled it off.  As to why, well if you need to ask why then I am going to have to ask you to leave this website and never come back!  One does not need a reason to give birth to six-rotors of pure awesome!

Could we see this engine under the hood of Mad Mike’s next car? I certainly hope so!  For now, scroll down and watch the six-delta beast come to life.

 

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