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Old 03-28-2005, 01:52 PM
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Unhappy There is NO new 3 rotor Renesis!

Go to the rotarynews website and read the follow ups to the article on the new LeMans car. It appears that our dreams of a 3 rotor Renesis engine are just that, dreams. The new 3 rotor engine is NOT a side port Renesis based engine. It is a 20B/13G based peripheral intake/exhaust port engine that we have seen raced for years. Oh well. Any return to LeMans racing is a good one. It looks like someone will have to build their own 3 rotor Renesis.
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Someone being YOU? Need a test car?

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Go to the rotarynews website and read the follow ups to the article on the new LeMans car. It appears that our dreams of a 3 rotor Renesis engine are just that, dreams. The new 3 rotor engine is NOT a side port Renesis based engine. It is a 20B/13G based peripheral intake/exhaust port engine that we have seen raced for years. Oh well. Any return to LeMans racing is a good one. It looks like someone will have to build their own 3 rotor Renesis.
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Is it possible to do a hybrid engine? Have the center rotor be PP and the others be SP? just curious. Its weird to me that they would say Renesis based since the SP is kinda the hallkmark of the Renesis.

I know the 13B is a proven race engine, and from a race standpoint PP makes alot of sense. what other meaningful Renesis features could they port over? lighter rotors? compression ratio?
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The hybrid engine idea won't work. That's like mating an LS1 cylinder to a Honda cylinder and driving them off of the same crankshaft. They aren't the same thing.

The new race engine has a 10.0:1 compression ratio but the 26B 4 rotor in the 787B also used this same compression ratio. I honestly don't think anything is shared. I think the person who wrote the article just refers to the rotary engine as a Renesis and that is how the name appeared. The article did mention that the new engine will be designated 20B by Mazda. That's nothing new.
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Someone being YOU? Need a test car?
A test car would be nice but I don't think I can afford the tooling costs of a custom center housing.
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Originally Posted by rotarygod
The hybrid engine idea won't work. That's like mating an LS1 cylinder to a Honda cylinder and driving them off of the same crankshaft. They aren't the same thing.

The new race engine has a 10.0:1 compression ratio but the 26B 4 rotor in the 787B also used this same compression ratio. I honestly don't think anything is shared. I think the person who wrote the article just refers to the rotary engine as a Renesis and that is how the name appeared. The article did mention that the new engine will be designated 20B by Mazda. That's nothing new.
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I've been thinking about this since Brian mentioned it to me, the P-port UN-RENESISIZE it, but are they at least using RENESIS internals, rotors maybe?

BTW RG what does Jesus Padillia do to his motor that makes everyone call it the "2rotor, 3rotor"?
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I would guess that they will be using Renesis oil cap :D
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