NT Rotor Head

G'day Guys,

My brother came across this discussion in the Ausrotary forum a while ago. I finally got him to send me the link. It may be all talk but if its true I imagine the value of our NA RX8's might drop quite significantly!

A turbocharged RX8 would be quite an exciting ride though!!

http://ausrotary.dntinternet.com/for...2218dace322e3a

NT Rotor Head

I just remembered reading this a while ago. Its from the March '03 edition of Wheels magazine. It contradicts the above, although it was early (RX8) days then, prior to release infact. I imagine that Mazda has had a fair bit of interest in a turbo RX8 and maybe they have changed thier minds.

(A NA 15B upgrade would be nice as well!!)

takahashi

In japan ... not many people have turbo in mind. They simply said it will be too hot (I mean temperature). Will need a thicker radiator.

The renesis was said not to have turbo in the design...

TRUST did have a turbo gaining 50-60ps with small boost. Very interesting. I saw it in the Jap Option magazine

I want to put a supercharger in. First one out is Blitz.... nice. Good torque in the lower end.

pepe

As you'll see in that thread on Ausrotary...

Believe it when I see it... go over to the rx8forum.com... if I believed all the rumours I'd read over there, we'd all be flying jet powered levitating RX-8s by now.

takahashi

Next thing you will know there is a rotary engine in F1!

Hymee

iTrader: (1)

If they un-banned rotary engines from F1 imagine how much development would take place, and how much the rotary would benefit from it.

I believe the main reason there is not a rotar in F1 is because the rules don't permit such. I think, the word piston or reciprocating are in there somewhere in the current rules.

Cheers,
Hymee.

druck

The current F1 regulations ban just about anything innovative these days. Although turbos, ground effect, active aerodynamics and the 6 wheeled Tyrell have all subsequently been banned, at least the rules allowed these innovations to be adopted at the time.

If they did allow rotaries, they would have a massive power to weight advantage over the equivelent piston engine (even using a 2.5:1 sweept ratio disadvantage), all teams would be forced to adopt them (like with turbos), and then there would be less justifcation for the huge costs by saying development trickles down in to production engines.

You could argue that rotaries might then be adopted for mainstream cars, but given the renesis' thirst it might not be too popular in the 5L/100km shopping trolleys - but who knows if you detune it from 180kW to 80kW it might use less juice. They might even develop a diesel rotrary - arrrrrh!

But then if they banned refueling during races, there might be more development chucked at reducing fuel consumption for high power engines.

Cheers
---Dave

Maestro

F1 is based around the European cars.

Eg. Ferrari
Renault
Ford etc etc.

This why the 787B was banned from Lemans and the same reason it would never be allowed in f1.

F1 is all about Money and for the Euros to throw money into a Jap manufacturer is a not a very good econic decison from a governing body form from euro car manufacturers.

timbo

Er, I thought Honda engines did quite well in F1 for a while. And Toyota??

EzRidA

Mazda never been big in motorsports, the LeMan win is the exception or the Banthorst races. Mitshibshi and Subaru do WRC, Honda and Toyota do F1. Off-road like Paris-Dakar is also Mitshibshi
into.

EzRidA

Sigh Im not EzRidaA but Alessandro...