The rotary engine is NOT going to blow up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reciprocating piston engines blow up. Not rotaries!!!!!!!!!! :)
The drag racers are getting 800 HP out of a 13 B and 1200 HP out of
a 20B. Nobody so far is advocating anything like those HP numbers
for an airplane.

Paul Lamar

I read you Paul!

Back to win on sunday/sell on monday:

To win Unlimited you better have a couple hp beyond 1k. If you don't win no
one will notice (except us for the Rotary) and 1200hp on the 1/4 mile are
not 1200 for 15 min. On the track you never give the system a chance to work
all the heat before it is over, and then it can cool without power output.

Need to change the Sport class rules and get Lancair to sponsor a Legacy, I
guess!

PS: Stepping back some 50 years, "Precious Metal" should be the outright
winner in Unlimited, considering Powerplant/Prop, airframe-mods - but it
doesn't (just yet, ... I hope), It also doesn't get a whole lot of publicity
for that....

Thomas J.

PS: Why don't you just try to step up the turbo pressure on your 2-rotor a
little at a time! Just to find out WHEN it WILL blow ...........up! :)))

That is why I advocate a twin 3 rotor for the unlimited.
Even if you don't win people will be impressed you were
competitive with a 1620-4360 cubic inch Rube Goldberg piston engine.

The current Reno Sportsman Class racers  are seeing about 650 HP out of the
TSIO 550 Continental. A three rotor is not working up a sweat at that level.

Sun & Fun 100 could be won outright overall with 450 HP.

Allan Tolle went 238 MPH six or seven years ago with a NA 13B and nitrous for
takeoff (fixed pitch wood prop) in the Sun 100. One of Francois's constant
speed prop gear boxes would help greatly in the Sun 100 as it is from
a standing start.

Just to remind everybody there is $750 cash waiting for someone that goes
over 220 in the Sun 100 if their airplane is powered by a rotary. Any rotary!

Paul Lamar

BTW Jim Mederer has well over 200 hours on a 900 HP three rotor on the dyno.

Paul Lamar
 
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