> It always amazes me that some people at Mazda don't understand
> what they have in the rotary. This year they installed a 2 Liter
> 4 cyl turbo
> charged hand grenade in the P2 American Lemans race car. It blew
> up in
> the race. Duh. Dumb!
>
>
> "The new engine, a clean sheet design, is a turbocharged 2.0
> liter in-line four cylinder."
>
> "At the center is the all-new MZR-R prototype engine, which
> replaces the three-rotor
> Mazda powerplant present in the B-K Motorsports' entry the past
> two seasons. The
> performance goals for the engine are 500hp and 400 lb-ft of
> torque, with the durability
> to succeed in such grueling races as Sebring and Petit Le Mans.
> The engineering team
> is working to incorporate the production-based Mazda Direct
> Injection Spark Ignition
> (DISI) system into the race motor. The technical collaboration
> between Mazda and AER
> has been non-stop in preparation for the season-opener at Sebring."
>
>
> I could have told them that. Poetic justice. They should have
> put more effort into
> getting the rules changed so the three rotor could breath. Or
> run a turbo three rotor.
> Or run a NA four rotor if the three rotor did not have enough HP
> for the class. The race
> organizer stuck a draconian induction air flow re-stricter and
> an excess minimum weight
> limit on the car in years past.
>
> This race series is BS anyway as they change the car
> specification rules such as
> minimum weight and the size of the air flow re-stricter race by
> race to favor one
> car over another. Shades of the late 1980's when IMSA rotaries
> were required
> to carry 650 pounds of lead ballast.
>
> Ops. I sent out the wrong first picture. Sorry. Here are the
> correct pictures.
>
> Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
>
> To put this 3 rotor combustion air flow re-stricter in context
> here is
> a picture of a Star Mazda car intake scoop with a STOCK TWO
> rotor RX8 engine.
>
>
> COME ON Mazda. Get with the program and build a turbo compound
> rotary and
> race that.
>
> Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

You have my support Paul.  A turbo compound rotary any time soon?

Marc J
NexusMustang

I don't know. I hope so. It will take millions to develop.
It is the only practical  technology on the horizon that has
a chance of reducing the fuel consumption of the ICE by 10 to
15%. The sad part about it was done 60 years ago in the aircraft
industry.