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The F8 DOHC to me reeks of an after thought by mazda....
It seems more like a cut down FE3....they look as though they made it as cheaply as possible, trying to change as fewer parts as possible from the FE3.
It may have had something to do with Japanese taxation laws where tax is proportional to engine size.
I dont think the F8 DOHC was ever meant to be a main stream engine like the honda one, but rather one for the cheapskate / low volume end of the market.
They probably would have quite happily used an F6/ F8 SOHC, but maybe they had trouble getting it past JDM emission laws at the time.
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