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03-14-2007, 08:37 PM
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03-15-2007, 03:26 AM
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Help me here guys -
The engine has 3 cycles so you could have up to 3 rotors, each giving more push between the cycles of the other two - but when you get to 4 would they all be set on the same start point, just making the shaft turn more powerfully, or would you do three and one repeating the same stroke of the first?
Or two and two on the same point?
With all the rotations of the drive shaft, it seems to me the big deal would be the problem of trying to get the engine spins and the wheels turns in closer synch - more of a transmission problem - also the little belt drive for the generator and the generator turning capacity seems to be a rate limiting step - it is still trying to be run by a pistion engine belt rather than a direct 1:1 drive.....
The engine has 3 cycles so you could have up to 3 rotors, each giving more push between the cycles of the other two - but when you get to 4 would they all be set on the same start point, just making the shaft turn more powerfully, or would you do three and one repeating the same stroke of the first?
Or two and two on the same point?
With all the rotations of the drive shaft, it seems to me the big deal would be the problem of trying to get the engine spins and the wheels turns in closer synch - more of a transmission problem - also the little belt drive for the generator and the generator turning capacity seems to be a rate limiting step - it is still trying to be run by a pistion engine belt rather than a direct 1:1 drive.....
03-15-2007, 05:17 AM
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Originally Posted by CohdeyTakahashi
Originally Posted by N rider89
sounds like pure sex
-Cody
03-16-2007, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by dillsrotary
imagine 3 miles per gallon on race gas if i remember correctly.
you wouldn't be driving around town that way... people get single digit numbers tracking their RX-8 too.
03-16-2007, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by mmats69
is that the 787b?
http://www.mazdamaniac.com/library/p...-rotor-1-5.pdf
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