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  • #31
    In the US spec car the RX-8 gets 250 horse power out of its 1308 cc engine. Torque is a bit light as you would expect from a 1.3L engine but imagine if Mazda put twin turbos on it like they did for the old RX-7. They could easily get another 100 hp out of it. A 350 hp 1.3L engine anyone?

    It's just an amazing piece of engineering.
    Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Provost Harrison
      Sounds like a silly game to me...
      Yea but you're not a car freak. Everyone has a passion, yours is startrek, mine is cars.

      Spec.
      -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Oerdin
        In the US spec car the RX-8 gets 250 horse power out of its 1308 cc engine. Torque is a bit light as you would expect from a 1.3L engine but imagine if Mazda put twin turbos on it like they did for the old RX-7. They could easily get another 100 hp out of it. A 350 hp 1.3L engine anyone?

        It's just an amazing piece of engineering.

        Actually, a couple of poeple I know tried that. The combustion chamber and apex seals are nor though enough to endure high PSIs. The engines blew 2 weeks after. But they are working on it, trying to find a way to make it work. Probably putting 3 mm ceramic apex seals, but they have to be machined, custom made, there are none that are manufactured for the rx8 just yet, only for rx7s. The RENESIS engine has a slightly different combustion chamber.

        Spec.
        -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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        • #34
          Oerdin, did you click on the links I put up? Did you hear the sounds? :drewl:

          Spec.
          -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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          • #35
            NASCAR

            They should make big rotary engines for NASCAR. Since you only have to turn left, they would have have a big advantage over regular engines.
            “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

            ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man​

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            • #36
              Re: NASCAR

              Originally posted by pchang
              They should make big rotary engines for NASCAR.
              But rotary engines dont need to be big. 2.6L with 4 rotors is more than enough with 700 HP.


              Since you only have to turn left, they would have have a big advantage over regular engines.
              How so?

              Spec.
              -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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              • #37
                Re: NASCAR

                Originally posted by pchang
                They should make big rotary engines for NASCAR. Since you only have to turn left, they would have have a big advantage over regular engines.
                They ship as twin rotars for a reason. They each are opposite of each other to cancel out the vibration.

                Spec, yeah I listened to your link.
                Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by SpencerH
                  I thought Mazda's were pretty good until I bought one and found out they had Ford (ie crap****) transmissions that fail everytime you look at them. Just say no to american cars!
                  Not all Mazdas have Ford transmissions.

                  The Mazda3's only Ford part is the suspension. The Mazda6 has a lot more Ford parts, and amazingly the Mazda3 is more reliable.
                  "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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                  • #39
                    Re: Re: NASCAR

                    Originally posted by Spec


                    But rotary engines dont need to be big. 2.6L with 4 rotors is more than enough with 700 HP.




                    How so?

                    Spec.
                    If you have a big mass spinning along your axis of motion, it helps you turn in one direction, but makes it harder to turn in the other direction (try to remember the right hand rule from your early physics days). The old biplanes in WWI had rotary engines oriented such that they could make snap turns to the left, but had a hard time turning right.
                    “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

                    ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man​

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                    • #40
                      How can WW1 plains have rotary engine when it was conceived in 1954? This one:


                      Which is an RX7 engine. Well, almost, it's missing a spark plug and the intake port is on the side.


                      You must be talking about another rotary engine, like this one maybe?



                      Spec.
                      Last edited by Spec; August 7, 2006, 18:09.
                      -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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                      • #41
                        It was first devised in 1899 it looks like.

                        Rotary engine - Wikipedia
                        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engines
                        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                        Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by Spec


                          Yea but you're not a car freak. Everyone has a passion, yours is startrek, mine is cars.

                          Spec.
                          Star Trek? Where on Earth did you get that idea from?
                          Speaking of Erith:

                          "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by Provost Harrison


                            Star Trek? Where on Earth did you get that idea from?
                            Just joking man.

                            Spec.
                            -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by Asher
                              It was first devised in 1899 it looks like.

                              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engines
                              You talking about a rotary piston engine.

                              I'm talking about a rotary engine with rotors. like this
                              ****el engine - Wikipedia
                              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****el_engine


                              But replace the **** by w a n k. God damn censor shlt. Cuz the inventors name is w a n k e l

                              Click on the link, you'll see how it works.

                              Spec.
                              -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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                              • #45
                                Still sounds like a pointless extravagance to me...
                                Speaking of Erith:

                                "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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