I thought about this when I was driving down 101 the other day and listening to the engine purr. I love the fact that the RX-8 challenges my preconceptions, and this is just something I feel is important for me to know about my baby: from the perspective of the driver's seat, which way do the rotors spin, clockwise or counter-clockwise?

 

counter

 

Same direction as your toilet water

 

LOL Eyeball

 

when your sitting in the car, looking forward, its turning to the left

 

so if I kick my car hard and and pull G's will the frame torque tends to want to do what? send it left or send it right, or not much either way.....

 

Clockwise from the front, therefore CCW from where you sit.

This is what it would look like from where you sit, if the rest of the car disapeared

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So, ccw in the northern hemisphere, and cw in the southern hemisphere?

 

Funny stuff.

 

radio active.... cw, ccw, bi, or straight.....I'll give it a ten, what the hell, I'm easy...

 

From the front of the car, both the intake and the exaust ports are on the left side of the engine. The exaust port on the bottom, the intake port being on the top. Because you need the intake cycle before you get to the exaust cycle, of an engine, the rotors have to rotate clockwise when looking from the front. Counter clockwise from inside the car.
Yea, this is what everyone else has said, I'm just saying it with a little more detail.

 

do you mind if I take that gif as my new avatar?

 

take it , its yours....I had it in a file on my computer for a while. not sure where it came from

 

cool thanks!

 

so what happens if you drive over the equator?

 

Your gas mileage shoots up because the rotors stop spinning!

 

In regards to your chasis bend tendency, It will (hipotheticaly) try to bend to the right, but the rotors are soooo low in mas and perfectly balanced that the body rigidity of the 8 would more than make up for it. you would only notice it with a verry accurate scale somehow connected to your suspension , or on verry, verry, verry high output, reving engines like 1/4 mile dragsters.

also remember that our engines are suspended by verry absorbent motor mounts (unlike most piston based cars) wich will absorb most of the torque transfered to the chasis.

 

It floods :D

 

your car would have 6 speed reverse and 1 speed forward, your throtle response would be horrible since you pulling air in thru the exhaust and most of your intake tract (plastic) would melt from the hot exhaust. :D

 

^ hilarious!!! :D