So, I did some searching and didn't come up with much. Does anyone know how the rotary responds to engine braking? Is it particularly bad for the rotary compared to a standard motor? Or, the same - I find, especially when practicing heel toe shifting, if I don't match just right, I am sometimes doing some engine braking and I don't want to be wearing out the motor by doing so but again - wasn't sure how the rotary responded...

 

no problems doing it, in fact when you engine brake, the engine doesn't inject any fuel, so you save on gas compared to coasting.

 

In fact, you wear out less things on a rotary than on a otto cycle.
You may experience less engine brake than on bigger engines, that's because of the leverages but you can actually trail brake as well with a rotary so...

 

engine braking is normal for manual tranny car.

 

The car is very smooth when you engine brake.

 

When I first started engine braking I never stopped. It feels right. When my dad took me out to ride motorcycles through the parkway in NC I was engine braking the motorcycle the whole time and barely touched the brakes.... when I got the 8 it was business as usual just smoother like everything else with this car.

 

^blue ridge?

I engine brake all the time...saves on brakes and can get some heel toe practice in...and get's you ready for those mountain roads!

 

Ive always engined breaked my manual cars...the 8 is exteremly smooth

 

How do you guys use brake in past tense when you are referring to stopping a car?

Is it braked or broke?

 

college education

 

stopped.

 

^ dot dot dot

 

Yeah I like stopped!.....But I believe it would be braked the vehicle/car......

 

I remember people looking at me funny when I said "I broke the car."

 

I think it's like drunk isn't it? I bruke the car?

 

Then wouldn't it be "I brunk the car?"

 

^haha yeah I don't think that is the correct way....

 

Ok, it's settled, the past tense of brake will now be called "brunk."

 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!^

 

i agree with renesis

 

According to wikipedia the past tense of brake is "braked" as in "He braked the car"

 

This poor guy just got his thread **** on by a single word, lmao

 

yeah what does Wiki know anyway....brunk it is!....He brunk the car!....

 

Lmfao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I think I'm the responsible one for all of this...