Not to worry it has four seats and looks like shit!

 

thought this would be a good place to toss this....the local electric car guru,ottmar[yes, he's everything the name evokes..] just dropped tandem[one on the transaxle; one directly above,tooth belted together]electric motors in his 914 por-sha.....he claims 500 ft/lbs torque at 0 [or +] rpm and it max's out at 10 grand!!!!!i saw [and heard] it today...seems REAL quick and he's soon to add monster tires.....he's intent on embarassing the hotshoes at the dragstrip...we'll see.....

 

I went through this "dethroning" with my '94 GSR. 8100 rpm was king when this car came out in '93. It was dethroned by the Ferrari 355 when it debuted....not bad company!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by dbw
[B]thought this would be a good place to toss this....the local electric car guru,ottmar[yes, he's everything the name evokes..] just dropped tandem[one on the transaxle; one directly above,tooth belted together]electric motors in his 914 por-sha.....he claims 500 ft/lbs torque at 0 [or +] rpm and it max's out at 10 grand!!!!!i saw [and heard] it today...seems REAL quick and he's soon to add monster tires.....he's intent on embarassing the hotshoes at the

 

S2Kguy,

Oh well, I still like the S2000 look better though...

 

Think about this, the RX-8 isn't even the replacement for the RX-7. The RX-7 may still be made as a 4th Gen. Think of a Renesis Rotary Twin-Turbo Charged! It's unfortunate the RX-7 isn't available anymore, but it might come back if the new Renesis Rotary is favored. BTW, I also heard rumors that there might be a Renesis Powered Miata.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by S2kRob
[B]Man, isn't the rotary engine engineering at its most distilled?

 

Ah, a wonderful thing, the Wankel rotary engine.

IIRC, the Mazda implementation (1.3l) has a hardware redline of something in the neighborhood of 14,400rpm. I say hardware, as it's the laws of physics that determine this, although probably not for the reasons you'd think.

At that speed, the rotor tips are moving just faster than sound in air at sea level, and thus go supersonic. Since air moving faster than sound can't catch fire (the shockwave blows out the flame front), the motor simply won't turn any faster.

And yes, it's the same for supersonic aircraft. Jet engines destined for FTS aircraft have HUGE combustion chambers, just to slow down the mass of air long enough to get it to burn.