Hello Paul & Group,
Mazda tuners are using this ignition booster. Manufacturer claim  that
it does multiple sparks and has higher energy, and users seem to agree
on performance gains.

Plasma Direct coils for RX-8:
http://www.okadaprojects.com/usa/products_direct.htm
Set of 4: $799 USD

Plasma Booster for RX-7 with distributor:
http://www.okadaprojects.com/usa/products_booster.htm
Set of 1: $206 USD

I have no idea how they do it. Maybe a place for some reverse
engineering ;)

btw: here's also something going on...
http://pulsedpower.usc.edu/combustion.html
USC is on your neighborhood Paul? right? ;)

Cheers, Petri

Or if they do it :)

USC is about 80 miles away.

BTW if you want to take a vacation I can put you
up for a week next winter :) The beach is 100 meters
away. It gets cold in Finland right ? :)

Paul Lamar

Thanks Paul! As a matter of fact, I'm planning to visit US sometime
between Nov-march. I got involved to marine electronics at this spring -
this is well paid and fun stuff :) Thus, I'm planning to attend soon to
a NMEA CMET (Certified marine electronics technician) course in US. They
keep those on both FL and CA.

Rotary wise, there's a couple of things going on here.
- My thesis work of PSRU's is progressing a bit slow... But there's no
rush yet, i still have 7 months to complete it.
- I should have "Aerodynamics of Propulsion" within two weeks - when I
get it, I'll get into that scan-OCR drill with it, and it should be
available to download within a month :)
- Tomorrow, I'm going to meet one local fella who is about to build a
Harmon Rocket II. He's a hot rodder and sheet aluminum specialist, and
he is interested to put a 20B with turbo on it. we're going to look if
we can cram a P-51 like scoop radiator in it also. And yes, i give him
your cool book :)

Cheers,
Petri