Old School Library

[Ray]

Resource of historic documents and technical information, be warned some of them are quite large and may take a while to download.

Mazda Corporation History

1978. The Mazda Rotary Engine - Mazda document produced prior to the launch of the RX-7 (23 jpeg images totalling 3.1mb)

1970 R100 Hot Car magazine roadtest

Ausrotary forum thread on RX-3 restoration

Mazda Sports Kit brochure

RX-3 Parts Catalogue (18mb pdf)

[clive]

Thanks Ray this section is a real good idea,

I have press access to the Mazda corp site and here are some links and then pictures.

What is the Rotary Engine

http://www.mazda.com/mazdaspirit/rotary/about/

History of the Rotary from Felix Wankel

http://www.mazda.com/mazdaspirit/rotary/story/index.html

Complete History of the Rotary from 1588!

http://www.mazda.com/mazdaspirit/rotary/chronicle/

How To Make a Rotary

http://www.mazda.com/mazdaspirit/rotary/howto/

Mazda Motorsports photo library

http://www.mazda.com/mazdaspirit/rotary/motorsports/

[clive]

Let\'s start with the oldest of the Old Skool Rotary\'s

The R360 ------------onwards

[12A]

The R360 wasnt rotary

[arrouk]

according to Mazda the Cosmo sport was the first production Mazda rotary but the test engines were fitted to the r16a.

Matt

[banned advertiser]

We have a short history on our site.
In our 2nd hand section we have listed every rotary in production
IE 110 cosmo
http://www.rotaryart.uk.com/acatalog/Mazda_Cosmo_110_parts.html
R100
http://www.rotaryart.uk.com/acatalog/Mazda_R100_parts.html

If you follow this link it shows all , which you can then follow to your choice of rotor.
http://www.rotaryart.uk.com/acatalog/Mazda_2nd_hand_parts_cars.html

I am working on several PDF\'s (approx 40) work shop manuals, wiring diagrams, Carbs and how to\'s which will get added soon, have several manuals on Repu and other rareities, but would like to hear from anyone with Cosmo111 manuals, Parkway, or other old skool to add to this FREE resource

[Carl]

The R360 was going to come out with a 360cc rotary,but the "Kei" or small car class competitors prevented it as they said that the one rotor of 360cc was not really that capacity but much bigger.Things have not changed much since then have they!!
Obviously Mazda made some preproduction models that must have been pretty neat having double the power they normally would have had.
Regards
Carl