RACING BEAT Aluminum Side Housings

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Originally Posted by Cp1

my thoughts are usually along the lines that if using an aluminum plate provided such a huge advantage then mazda surely would have used it instead of cast and coated iron like they did. with all the money and time they spent in R&D on these engines you can be sure mazda tried and tested damn near every combination of materials. so there must be a reason they went with cast iron.

I agree with your entire post, however I just wanted to note here that the 16x has aluminum plates.