{"id":46721,"date":"2019-10-02T13:36:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T18:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=46721"},"modified":"2022-12-02T12:46:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:46:44","slug":"mazda-rx-8-with-a-twin-turbo-mercedes-v8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=46721","title":{"rendered":"Mazda RX-8 with a Twin-Turbo Mercedes V8"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This Mazda RX-8 is being built by Race Works PL<\/a> (formally Hepp Garage) in Limanowa, Poland. The car was previously powered by a twin-charged stroked 2.9 L BMW M50 inline-six featuring a BorgWarner S300SXE turbocharger and Eaton M62 supercharger. They recently swapped to a twin-turbo 5.0 L Mercedes M113 V8 featuring two JRspec GTX3076R turbochargers and a 1 mm decompression plate. The V8 is mated to a ZP six-speed (BMW M57) manual transmission using a Poweride adapter plate, flywheel, and twin-disc clutch.<\/p>\n

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Photos of the previous engine setup.<\/p>\n

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Source: Race Works PL FB page<\/a> via Piotr<\/p>\n

Update: 2022-12-02 – Changed builder name<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Mazda RX-8 is being built by Race Works PL (formally Hepp Garage) in Limanowa, Poland. The car was previously powered by a twin-charged stroked 2.9 L BMW M50 inline-six featuring a BorgWarner S300SXE turbocharger and Eaton M62 supercharger. They recently swapped to a twin-turbo 5.0 L Mercedes M113 V8 featuring two JRspec GTX3076R turbochargers… Read More »Mazda RX-8 with a Twin-Turbo Mercedes V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rx-8"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Mazda-RX-8-with-a-Twin-Turbo-Mercedes-M113-V8-01.jpg?fit=960%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":119554,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=119554","url_meta":{"origin":46721,"position":0},"title":"Carbon Fiber Mazda RX-7 Race Car with a Twin-Turbo VK45 V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"August 14, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Valtonen Motorsport's Mazda RX-7 race car was powered by a turbocharged SR20 inline-four. 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