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kleinbl00  ·  3415 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: BMW: All Models Electric Within Decade

Right you are. Consider, though - that's the same as the mid-market V-8 Camaro. You and I both know that it's not difficult to talk more than 150HP out of a Chevy 350. Said same is very true of a Mazda rotary.

Displacement for rotaries is counted in weird ways. From a power-strokes-per-rotation standpoint, it might as well be a two-stroke. Except it's a 4-stroke with all implied efficiencies. As such, calling it a "1.3L engine" is a misnomer. It weighs like a 1.3L, makes power like a 2.6L, and redlines like Formula 1.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Wankel_Cycle_anim_en.gif

mk - here's why .gifs are good.





user-inactivated  ·  3415 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes. I know. Which is why I am curious as to what your setup was. Any time you can almost double an engine's output, it's an impressive feat. I love hearing what people have done to pull it off.

b_b  ·  3415 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ha! You've found the one useful gif in the history of hubski. Not sure it's time for a change yet.

I never got to really test the one wankle I owned. My first ride was a 1983 Rx-7, but I totaled it in about two weeks. I remember vividly that I had a Sly and the Family Stone tape in the deck. What a sad day that was, as I had looked forward to nothing more in my life than having wheels, only to ruin a badass machine like that with the negligence only a 16 yr old could have.

kleinbl00  ·  3415 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I owned that RX-4 for a week. It was one of three cars I pulled out of someone's back yard to haul off as scrap - the first being a '69 Ford Ranch Wagon which I sold the engine and transmission out of for $500, the second being a '66 Corvair Monza that I sold running for $800 and the third of which was the RX-4, which I got running again and which my dad paid me $500 to "sell" to my sister.

She wrapped it around a lamp post six days later. I even waxed the thing. It was a drag.