Tough rotary love: 1994 Mazda RX-7 R2 - AutoWeek
The bounty that was to be unloaded from the 18-wheeler into the possession of a 20-year-old me was a 1994 Mazda RX- 7 R2. Leading up to that morning was my long obsession with Mazda's third-generation RX- 7, kick-started in 1993 when a Montego... The following years were filled with RX- 7 knowledge-seeking through car magazines, picking the brain of my mechanical-engineer cousin who gave me my first crash course on the Wankel rotary engine and trolling an Internet that was just beginning... I was the seventh member of the RX7Club. During that time I learned about the car's foibles, researched what needed to be done to make its twin-turbocharged 13B rotary reliable and constructed my dream RX- 7 on paper. These requirements proved sizeable hurdles as Mazda only imported a total of 99 silver R2s into the U. S. Finding the right car was just the beginning, as the subpar cooling system would need to be addressed to keep the notoriously finicky engine... An RX- 7 fanatic, Fanning is best known for writing the peer-to-peer file-sharing program Napster. He owned numerous RX-7s, one of which was a 1994. Source: autoweek.com
