auxilary Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 a rotary? Apex seal popped, broke, and tumbled around a few [dozen] times within the rotor housing. Check out the gouges! The funny thing is that the rotor housing was completely intact, and NOT damaged at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bang847 Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 Where are the rings at?? this is probably the first time i have seen a rotor so I actually have nothing to compare it to. But definetly those gouges dont look normal at all.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 Bend any valves? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid240z Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 How much do those rotors weigh? It looks hefty. Marcos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxilary Posted March 18, 2003 Author Share Posted March 18, 2003 those are from a series 5, so I'd guess about 8-9 lbs each Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S30Z Bushido Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 Have you ever seen that Mazda racing commerical where they show a bunch of thier race cars and there is a narrator saying "none of these cars ever spun a bearing, broke a connecting rod, or bent a valve." haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudge Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 They can't afford breakage during a race, it sure does happen though, but you will hardly ever see it during a Sebring/Le Mans type race. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stony Posted March 19, 2003 Share Posted March 19, 2003 that my friends is detonation at its best ;> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleeperZ Posted March 19, 2003 Share Posted March 19, 2003 They can't afford breakage during a race, it sure does happen though, but you will hardly ever see it during a Sebring/Le Mans type race. Hehe, they don't break because they are non-existant in a rotary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest livewire23 Posted March 19, 2003 Share Posted March 19, 2003 They can't afford breakage during a race' date=' it sure does happen though, but you will hardly ever see it during a Sebring/Le Mans type race.[/quote'] Hehe, they don't break because they are non-existant in a rotary haha, mudge, you awake yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ON3GO Posted March 19, 2003 Share Posted March 19, 2003 ahaha mudge.... that made my day. mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudge Posted March 19, 2003 Share Posted March 19, 2003 LoL, I'm glad you could laugh at my expense. I dont know much about rotaries, I do know a local guy racing one in a spec series, and they are damn tiny engines! I think you could stuff about 3 bodies in the front end and still not block the engines air flow I didn't even know they don't have valves, no bearings? Are they direct injection? I still stand by my statement though, they can't afford breakage You wont see many Le Mans cars go down, although they do have thier string of problems sometimes but it almost always seems to be one car in a particular batch that has a bad season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxilary Posted March 19, 2003 Author Share Posted March 19, 2003 The 1.3 liter 2rotor wankel motor has 3 basic moving parts: 2 rotors that rotate around an eccentric shaft (crank shaft for comparison, if you will). There are no pistons, valves, connecting rods, camshafts or cams. The block consists of 5 slices, so to speak, called intermediate, rotor, and side housings. it looks like this: side housing|rotor|intermediate|rotor|side housing| Check out the detailed explanation here: http://travel.howstuffworks.com/rotary-engine.htm basically, it has a weight/less moving parts advantage over a piston motor. downside is initial lack of torque, and the motor cannot sustain as much abuse due to smaller margin of error. ie. you can overboost a piston motor and it'll survive. on a rotary, it can be a deadly result for the block Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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