A few years ago a friend of mine said he'd seen what he thought was a rotary engine in a workshop he was clearing out, it was in the scrap pile and he asked me if I wanted it, obviously I said yes and he dropped it off for me. I assumed it was a dud but Ive oiled it and turned it over regularly. As you may have read I recently bought another rebuilt 13b and have started looking more closely at the engine I was given and it seems a bit odd.
This is the engine, you can see the mounting bolts on the centre plate.
This is the other side of the engine with mounting bolts on the centre plate not the sump as normal.
The engine had a flex plate for an auto box and an odd cast exhaust manifold.
After speaking to Pip at wgt he said it was possibly from a Mazda Parkway bus (I didn't know such a thing existed).
