BTW Doug is going to check the 16B bell housing bolt pattern dimensions
at the
Tokyo Motor Show to see if it will fit the current RX8 bell housing.
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
Paul the Motor show starts tomorrow and Mazda's concept car
Taiki,(Atmosphere) already graces the front cover of the newspapers. I
will head down there on Monday.
As understand it you want to know if the bolt pattern is the same as the
13B
housings. Or another way to say is will a 13B bellhousing fit on the 16B
right?
As for the geometry of the stroke I am not completely sure they will give
that info out but I'll try. I'll definitely get the press kit.
Doug in Japan.
Yes on the bolt pattern.
If you take a shot perpendicular to the side of the engine with a tape
measure in the shot we can scale it off that.
Thanks Doug.
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
Mr. Lamar,
Thinking out loud, could the "P-Port" induction modifications be combined
with 16B Direct Injection?
Would there be any advantages beyond less wall wetting that you could see?
Best Regards,
Anthony
Any gasoline deposited
on a 400 degree F rotor wall soon evaporates and is sucked into the engine.
There is no place else for it to go. In the peripheral exhaust port engine
all unburned fuel will be swept out the exhaust port. We are building an engine
with P-port intake combined with a side port exhaust to recycle the unburned fuel.
Direct injection has few advantage as far as I can tell. IMHO the big drawback is you
need super high injection pressure to vaporize the fuel in such a short period
of time. Perhaps Mazda has discovered something vis a vis the rotary that nobody
else has discovered. Perhaps spraying fuel on the hot rotor cools the rotor so less
oil cooling is required. Any cooling reduces the over all efficiency of any engine.
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
What about turbo charging; it might help there with detonation. Çould you have
high compression and say a 6 psi or so turbo charger .
Clifton
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