RACING BEAT Aluminum Side Housings

[SLOASFK]

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.

[Cp1]

Originally Posted by SLOASFK

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

Ive heard about that, but i would still wait to see one of the mazda aluminum ones and how they are being used, im thinking there has to be just more than a few changes made in order to use them for a new engine. i would also compare them to the racing beat ones once available and test the s*it out of them. I would just simply wait to see when mazda makes them available and i honestly doubt when they do they will cost half what the racing beat ones do.

It would be interesting to see how different or similar the two are.

[SLOASFK]

Originally Posted by Cp1

It would be interesting to see how different or similar the two are.

I don't know if it'll make a difference, but the mazda plate will be MSP plates, vs the RB plates with are pport plates