At the risk of belaboring the point...tmak26b wrote: haha. what stats is that? It's always the same people who bitch and moan about blown motor. Most of them buy piece of crap and then tries to mod it, what else do you think will happen?
Stock vs. stock, tuned vs. tuned, well-maintained vs. well-maintaind, poorly-maintained vs. poorly-maintained, rotaries are generally less, not more, reliable than piston engines.
I love rotaries for many of the reasons stated above. But "reliability" does not belong in the "pros" column!