On one of your previous episodes you brought attention to the fact that Ford Ranger and Mazda pickup truck are one in the same, my question is can you take a Mazda rotary engine from an RX7 and drop it into a Ford Ranger, if so will it work with both two wheel or four wheel drive🤔
I know just the guy @Mod_Man who can help you.
Can it physically fit? Probably. Can it actually work? No.
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I mean, technically with infinite money anything is possible, but it would be stupid to spend $100k+ to build something like that. Rotary engines are notoriously unreliable, almost no one knows how to work on them, and they are definitely not suited for truck duty in any way, shape, or fashion.
So no, you can not realistically put a rotary engine into a Ranger.
Ever since 1994 the Mazda pickup trucks we rebadged Ford Rangers, so they were made by Ford for Mazda. Any Mazda Pickup that is 1993 or older is all Mazda. The Mazda RX-7 is also all Mazda. I cannot see the rotary working in a Ranger and if it would it would be an electronic nightmare getting it to work.
Either I'm missing something or you misunderstood their parnternship. Mazda pickups have Ford powertrains. A Mazda Rotary engine has no place in a Ford Ranger (which btw has no relation to the RX-7). Even if you could, you would spend a fortune. If you somehow managed to find enough money to do it, you would end up with an unreliable engine literally no one knows how to work on.
Exactly. I wouldn't even know what to put the build cost at, other than DEEP six figures. And nobody would take the job anyway. I wouldn't. Lol.
 Take my claim with a grain of salt. I think they used the same type of engines with both of the cars. It can be done, but you have to change a certain amount of things like electronics.Â
