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The only effort you put into a rotory is taking out and throwing in the nearest scrap bin
I have never thrown one into the scrap heap. Read post 24 again and understand it. Look at the Wankel's strengths, what is being R&D's and its ideal application. Then all will fall into place. Somehow I don't think you can objectively analyse.
Wankel Engine.......
The reason the beautiful Mazda RX-8 bit the dust. You cannot find anyone to work on them. The RX-8 was great but with the wrinkle engine not so much.
I have always said, The Rx series were great looking sports cars, If they just didnt come with a @$#^%$ rotary engine. If they could of come with a decent 4 or 6 cylinder, they couldnt of made them fast enough. They would of sold 2 or 3 times as many each year.
I have always said, The Rx series were great looking sports cars, If they just didnt come with a @$#^%$ rotary engine. If they could of come with a decent 4 or 6 cylinder, they couldnt of made them fast enough. They would of sold 2 or 3 times as many each year.
Your knowledge on rotaries is near zero. The RX 8 was in a class sector with Porches. It performed the same as the Porsche and had about the same mpg. But it was vastly cheaper to buy. It was also a superb car to ride. The reason the rotary was put in this class sector was for the reason in my post. The apex seals lifted on low revs and low load. Sports cars by nature are at high revs and load a lot of the time. The Renesis engine was superior to the Porsche engine.
But directly driving the wheels of vehicles with rotaries is not its most efficient application. That is in range-extender applications where it surpasses piston engines on just about every point. So, carping on about a direct a drive engine that is no longer is made is pointless. It is what they do in the near future is what matters.
I could care less about any hybrid, and hope to be gone from this earh before the piston engines "demise," just let me know when the Miata gets a rotary powerplant.
I could care less about any hybrid, and hope to be gone from this earh before the piston engines "demise," just let me know when the Miata gets a rotary powerplant.
Sadly you have little clue and full of prejudices. Sit and learn. Expand your mind.
The rotary is a great design with very compact dimensions, low weight, fewer parts and good efficiency but only truly effective under certain loads and rpm, so this may be an ideal application. Issues with tip wear, emissions, and economy may be better managed in this application allowing for a relatively small reliable range extender.
Exactly, if a Wankel can be run in a stable RPM range that it likes then it can be very efficient and reliable. Running constantly between 1000 and 9000 RPM is terrible for a Wankel.
Sadly you have little clue and full of prejudices. Sit and learn. Expand your mind.
I do have a clue, when the honda insight first came out, I- as a child drew up a car with an engine powered generator that ran wheel motors- as a child. I might be "full of prejudices," but my mind isn't narrow, I'm not saying the idea is anything negative. I know what I like, and I just don't like hybrids, unless it's a m35 with the hurculean motor. I'd rather see the return of steam cars, and I've been designing one of those, too.
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