Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.

Hi everybody,

Welcome to episode 194 of the Intercooler Podcast with me, Dan Prosser and my co-host Andrew Frankel.

This week we're talking about weird engine

configurations and weird engines generally, engines that basically work in a different way

to a conventional piston engine, most of them from the early 1900s.

Before we get into that, I will just remind you all to subscribe to the podcast or follow the

podcast, whichever app you're using, there'll be a little button that says follow or subscribe. the and enjoy this one. The reason that I suggested this topic is that I've every sort of six months or something

I spend a couple of hours just trolling the classifieds looking at Mazda Rx 8s, right? You can pick them up for buttons, but you can actually pick up a reasonable

one with a functioning rotary engine and we'll come back to the rotary engine in a moment.

Yeah.

A couple of thousand pounds.

There's such good cars.

I just, that money.

How brave are you feeling?

I think I want to go and have a look at one or two and drive them because they might just be a bag of nails at a couple of thousand pounds. I don't know. But okay, they've got that interesting engine that has its flaws, but it has its charms as well.

They look cool, their rear drive, they've got four good seats, you can get people in the back. They've got double wish bones at the front

and a multi link at the rear,

so they're good to drive.

Oh, I've done...

What else is there at that money?

I've done, I used to race them.

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