Chuck
Don't get me wrong here I am not a proponent of doing it the old way just
because we did it that way before. I am just trying to understand the
complaint here just as a mater of my own knowledge. I have no axe to grind.
Heck you can build a 370 cu in blown fuel rotary and run it straight up in
my class if you want, we don't handicap the two stroke guys
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Rothfuss <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 6:44 PM
Subject: Rotary rules (was rules)
> Jim, Dave, List,
>
> Sorry I'm late to the fight Dave. I'm still trying to catch up with
this
> thread, and have probably missed some of it, but I MUST jump in here and
let
> it be known that I intend to run rotary engines as my primary power plant
in
> at least 3 vehicles (Sedan, GT and truck) just as soon as time and
finances
> allow. There are at least two other gentlemen racers in my area who
intend
> to campaign rotary engined vehicles with ECTA.
>
> David Parks mentioned Omega class engines, non-otto cycle, and two
rotary
> sizes. Sorry David, but the rotary is clearly a 4 cycle engine, with
> exactly the same 4 events as any piston engine. The fact that they occur
in
> a different manner in no way diminishes that fact. (Lord, I must be
watching
> too much CNN, I sound like a lawyer.) There are also 4, and potentially 5
> sizes of rotary engine just available from Mazda. Common U.S. production
> engines include the 10A, 12A and 13B, with the three rotor 20B easily
> available through Mazda's competition parts department. There may also be
a
> 4 rotor available on a more limited basis. Only the 10A, at 982cc would
> fall below the 2000cc figure using a x2 calculation. (Don't underestimate
> these little fellas, with less mass they can handle higher RPM easily and
> run on alcohol they were stout little sprint car engines, and I believe
one
> still holds the G/PRO record on the salt.) I'd like to see rotary engines
> from Rupp, Curtis-Wright, Graupner, and others. While the rotary engine
may
> never gain that kind of popularity, it sure isn't helped by the X3 factor.
>
> I've gotto stand with Dave Dahlgren on this issue. Just because "we
> always did it that way" doesn't make it right. If that was true we'd
still
> be training infantryman how to form squares and line for battle,
performing
> surgery without sterile equipment, and (finally I come up with an analogy
> that'll hit home with everyone) trying to get our LSR questions answered
> WITHOUT THIS LIST.
>
> Chuck Rothfuss
> Rotor head
>
>
>
> At 12:41 PM 12/15/2000 -0800, you wrote:
> >I don't know Dave, the Bonneville record book shows 21 F class records
set
> >in 1990 or later and 10 older than 1990. That shows some interest. How
many
> >people out there want to run rotary's?
> >Jim in Palmdale
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