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Bill Freeman wrote:

    *** SNIP  ***

. . .  stand up to detonation better.
 . . . . . . The sky would be
the limit for HP if this problem could be solved.

Paul Lamar

Paul,

AHEM . . .      I must respectfully submit ---

    Well,   DUH!     For *any* spark ignition engine!!

      Just keeping ya honest.   ;-)

               Bill

Not neccessarily so Bill. One of the structural subtleties of the
rotary is most of the various loads go through the one piece rotor.

The main thing the e-shaft sees is output forces. In a piston engine
the compression force must go through the piston pin, rod, crankshaft
back up through another rod, piston pin and into another piston.
Or in the case of a single cylinder piston engine  it relies on the 
inertia of the flywheel to supply these forces. 

This and a few other features make the rotary nye on to cannon proof 
when it comes to high pressures. Francesco Iannetti told me you can
boost
it to 55 psi (70 psi absolute) before the side housings lift off the
rotor 
housings and the water O ring seals start to  leak combustion gases into 
the cooling system. Try that with your average car piston engine.
You would be in blast zone of shrapnel bomb.
 
Paul Lamar
 
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