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YACT: RX7/Rotary destruction...

HOLEY CRAP....just...HOLEY CRAP

how the hell did that thing last for like 6 minutes....thats friggin crazy!

Also, what was that pipe that was glowing at the end of the video?
 
Never got through the entire video but did see the smoke and tach. Also the temp guage, which did not mive off center .... did it blow or keep running?

years ago when rotarys were first intruduced I had an RX3 (want it back but ex-wife took it) and went to a shop that raced them When I went in, the noise from one being worked on was blowing the doors off the building ... unbelievable! I looked at the tach and it was pegged like this one. I asked if they would blow it and they said "Nah, we run it at that in races all the time." Amazing

Bek
 
Bekker,

Eventually the coolant began spewing out, and soon after that the temp guage was pegged up...but it seemed to last for another 1-2 minutes after that. Then, they found a nice little fire under the car...and put it out. That was about it. Crazy crazy stuff...
 
Originally posted by: Confused
What? What's that?
Coolant, I think we've blown a coolant seal
<Revs back from 5k to 9k>
Cool
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That guy is my new hero.

I want to see the rotor after that. With coolant it prolly owuld have lasted a LONG time.

It's really only a trbine spinning with a trangle gear , right? Not 6 pistons, pushrods, a million sets of gaskets, bearings, springs etc...😀
 
Unlike a piston engine, a rotary engine only has spinning parts. No valves going up and down, or 1 pound pistons trying to streach a rod. Just the tensile strength of the metal making up the rotor. The parasitic drag is what really limits the RPM range, not the material. Same reason a jet engine & turbo can spin at may 10's of thousands of RPM. It is just spinning, not reversing direction.
 
Originally posted by: Evadman
Unlike a piston engine, a rotary engine only has spinning parts. No valves going up and down, or 1 pound pistons trying to streach a rod. Just the tensile strength of the metal making up the rotor. The parasitic drag is what really limits the RPM range, not the material. Same reason a jet engine & turbo can spin at may 10's of thousands of RPM. It is just spinning, not reversing direction.
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HA! I was right.

Reciprocating will tear the engine apart. The centripical force of the rotary engine is

1) not strong enough to brake the barrier...the chamer of steel with the teeth in which the rotor spins
2) not strong enough to tear the steel part.
3) I am guessing the rotor is prolly intact on that one..unless the heat melted something....😀 *crosses fingers*


THEY NEED A PART 2 !!!!


EDIT: *crosses fingers*
 
Funny video. Now they get to work in a stinky engine bay.

Toothless wonders in wreaking yards use to run scrap piston engines wide open.
With no water or oil they would screem along for quite some time..........

🙂
 
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