If this lumpy, manic-sounding six-rotor monster sounds familiar, you might have seen it before. It’s Pulse Performance Race Engineering’s famous “6B” engine that they ended up stuffing into an RX-4 in New Zealand. This video is new to us, but it’s from before the car was completed. We know from the earlier dyno run that the engine is good for at least 813 horsepower (on pump gas).
But we haven’t seen it spit flames like this. And just listen to the idle. You should also know that PPRE usually has their hands in pretty much every nutso rotary build you’ve heard of lately. “MADBUL” and “RADBUL,” the rotary-powered Miatas of “Mad” Mike Whiddett? Yup, PPRE builds. Apparently if you have money to burn and multiple rotor housings to fuse together, PPRE are your boys.
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This story originally appeared on roadandtrack.com.
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