Here in Europe, we are not lucky like you in the state for the Avgas or
  mogas prices. Here 1 US gallon of Avgas is around 9.5 us$...and 1
  gallon of mogas around 7.10 us$!

  Do you think we can built a diesel mazda? Or better a Pantone fuel?

  Best,

  Jacques

  Diesel Mazda wankel is not likely.

  Check with WankelSuperTec and see if they are ready to sell.

  http://www.wankelsupertec.de/


  Paul Lamar
      Hi   Paul,    I have wondered why development has been so slow,
 but, after looking at that German site I can see why!! No one can work
 on a Wankel style motor without a license, so as with almost everything
 unless one has, so called "dumb mechanics" doing so-called silly things
 progress is very slow, as someone has said "look at the Chrysler Hemi
 motor producing a amazing 2500 hp in the 1960's now producing around
 7000hp !!!"
                         You are around my vintage, so you would
 remember in the 1960's we used have to do valve grinds at 10,000 miles,
 diffs and gearboxes at 30,000 to 50,000 miles also rerings at
 50,000miles now they are almost not heard of during the life of the car.
 If something happens to your motor usually cooked due to loss of
 coolant, just go to to the wrecker get another motor and it will see out
 the life of the car!
                         What the Wankel rotary needs is a pool of smart
 ordinary fiddlers who will try all sorts of things, some work, some
 don't, then the engineers can perfect the best things.

                         What is the down side to the alloy endplates
 with steel liners? How is the water coolant leaks stopped?

                         Have you flown a bit through the outback? In
 another life I used to fly into the outback mostly on oil field shot
 line work fixing tractors trucks ect.

                         The recent flooding out west reminds me of
 flying during the early 1980's so much water hard to navigate, no GPS
 then.
                         Lake Eyre I think may even overflow this summer.
             Check out   www.bom.gov.au which is the weather channel.

                    John Burey.

 What they told us in Birdsville was Oz was a big bowl with Birdsville
 the low point. When you got rain in the north Birdsville flooded
 even though it was not raining there. They need to dig a big hole
 and store all that fresh water :)

 Paul Lamar



   Hi  Paul, Actually the low point is Lake Eyre, some 30 metres or so
below sea level, just to the south of Birdsville is a location colled
Goyders Lagoon, it is the low point for the Diamintina River, when it
runs, and mid-way from there to Lake Eyre Is the Warburton river and
flows north into Goyders Lagoon, until the Lagoon fills then it turns
around and with the Diamintina pushing it flows into Lake Eyre via "The
Warburton groove", very strange. I was at the Birdsville races in 2006,
the  125th year it has been run, this year it was washed out with
flooding (from local water), in 2006  there was 7000 people in town,
about 6500 camped,tents,swags, back of utes, just on the ground!! That
same year I did a round trip 900km into the Simpson Desert and back to
Birdsville.   I love it,  John B.