The Mazda Miata is beloved for being tiny and light, a combination of qualities most modern automakers seem to avoid like the ...

However, this might be the first instance of a Hellcat engine being dropped into an FD Mazda RX-7. What's even more shocking to some is that this RX-7 didn't blow its rotary engine before the swap.

Chevy LS-series engine swaps are popular for several ... An LS V8 Into A Mazda RX-2 The 1,350-horsepower RX-7 isn't the only cool rotary-for-LS swap out. James Schauer of the LS-focused Build ...

the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever wondered how these worked, why not print a model?

That little single-rotor powerplant quickly evolved into the more typical two-rotor design one might see in a Mazda RX-7, for example ... for any engine, much less a rotary engine.

Update 1.56 introduced six new engine swap ... rotary engine swaps in my previous stories. The four-rotor setup felt overkill on the MX-5, and I knew things would be much better in the RX-7.

2017 marks fifty years since Mazda produced its first Wankel rotary-engined car ... not least a later 12A engine from an RX-7, and an RX-7 five-speed gearbox topped by an incongruous eight ...