The  required by rules Weber 48 IDF with 36 MM chokes. The whole carb is  at
its limit flow wise and a number of tricks are used to try to  stay in the
12s  F/A wise all the way to top RPM. So the EGTs  may be affected by
droplets
of fuel  in the mixture  due to the float being set so high that the
boosters drip   frantically at idle. We would turn on only one pump for a
few
seconds then turn  it off to get to the false grid.  Otherwise we would
flood the
engine. It seems  to me  that since the EGTs do not reflect the FA at any
RPM
that  we were fooling  both sensors to some extent. I think the goal  was
12.7
but once the engine was  screaming it was  not attainable. F/A would wonder
into the 13s. I had a movie   camera on the EGTs in each session, so we got
real good data on that  and shift  revs.

Daryl said fuel injection would add about  8 HP. The runners in these
engines were barely touched from stock.  Velocity was what he wanted, so I
think
most folks get  carried away with runner cross section for most
applications,
(RPM).
Most of the current 12-A people  are claiming about 270 HP, but  are
screaming the daylights out  of the engines. Over 10,000 RPM on every shift.

Finally, if your  car were mated to a three rotor w. p-port, would SCCA
class
it to where it would simply be hopelessly uncompetitive...put  in with
sports
racings/prototype classes?  Sorry for  what probably is a really  stupid
question, but it just seems a  damned shame for that car to be sitting  in
the
back  of the garage.

Steve Beckham


The car was  designed to run in National races. There is no class for it in
altered form. In regional racing, where there are no teams with
Semitrailers and  big crews, there is a superproduction class  where
anything can run if
it passes  the safety  inspection. It was always more fun at regional races
anyway. When  you  first get your student license you must race in 6
regional
races in order to get  a national license. Lots of  beginners needing help.
My car would be hell on  wheels at a  regional race. Like taking candy from
a
baby.

We have tested at regionals but pull into the pits and get  tire temps two
laps before the end. No point in taking a three  dollar trophy away from a
new  kid.

Lynn E.  Hanover


Here are three more of my rotary powered  cars.


That last car looks familiar. Is it a  Diaso(sp)?
Vlad




I am not familiar with that name. (Diaso) The Yellow Peril was a Lola
Formula Atlantic car with coach-work of my design. My bucks, my molds, my body
work, and a 12-A engine with Hewland FT-200 gearbox.. The Black car (The
Guppy)  was My chassis design, A Yellow Peril nose, the rest was my design.
Four fuel  pumps, quick fill port, right hand drive, gull wing doors, another
12-A engine  and the same FT-200 gear box.
We never outran the big money boys, but we did outlast them quite a few
times. There is no mention of that on any of the trophies. The Guppy is owned
by  a collector nearby. I visited it a few years ago.

Lynn E. Hanover