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1. Re: Rotary Engines (score: 1)
Author: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:05:44 -0400
Don't know that I disagree with your logic exactly. However sometimes progress is made in small increments. I would most certainly be in favor of changing the current factor from 3.0 to the FIA fact
/html/land-speed/2000-09/msg00350.html (9,129 bytes)

2. Re: Rotary Engines (score: 1)
Author: dahlgren <dahlgren@uconect.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:20:12 -0400
Then why do the 2 strokes run heads up.. aren't there some small engine liner records set with 2 strokes that had an unfair advantage?? does FIA also factor them as well?? Dahlgren
/html/land-speed/2000-09/msg00351.html (9,768 bytes)

3. Re: Rotary Engines (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Jenkins" <MikeJ@speedrecordclub.softnet.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:13:22 +0100
For record breaking the FIA put rotary engines into their own groups, each with the normal capacity class breaks. Group V for 'engines with rotative Otto cycle with or without supercharger' and Group
/html/land-speed/2000-09/msg00353.html (10,903 bytes)

4. Re: Rotary Engines (score: 1)
Author: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:07:12 -0400
If not perhaps they should. JB -- Original Message -- From: "dahlgren" <dahlgren@uconect.net> To: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com> Cc: <dwarner@electrorent.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.n
/html/land-speed/2000-09/msg00356.html (10,455 bytes)

5. Re: Rotary Engines (score: 1)
Author: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:59:54 -0400
The FIA factor I have been talking about is not part of their LSR rule structure. With LSR you are correct they have there own Group. records favor run the do the in crank
/html/land-speed/2000-09/msg00357.html (11,919 bytes)

6. Re: Rotary Engines (score: 1)
Author: Nt788@aol.com
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:07:31 EDT
If there was only a trophy for the fastest vehicle as Mr. Parks suggests. would be great it would make everybodyelse a winner in his own right, not bad, kinda like the old days! see youse later Jack
/html/land-speed/2000-09/msg00359.html (6,825 bytes)

7. Rotary engines (score: 1)
Author: Chuck Rothfuss <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 19:34:50 -0500
The rotary fell out of favor more in the US because of Mazda's unwillingness to release the engine in anything but an RX7, and it's extensive list of patents, which made the engine uneconomical for
/html/land-speed/1999-12/msg00100.html (10,004 bytes)

8. Re: Rotary engines (score: 1)
Author: Ed Van Scoy <edvs@idt.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 21:49:32 -0700
2 (dumb?) questions: If you add a muffler, does this create power-robbing back pressure? How the heck do you verify displacement at teardown after a record run? Ed
/html/land-speed/1999-12/msg00103.html (10,792 bytes)

9. Re: Rotary engines (score: 1)
Author: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 10:54:54 -0800
Thanks for the update on the Rotary. My information was a bit ancient since I was going by what was told us at the time Mazda quit using the engine in their other cars and trucks. I understand that
/html/land-speed/1999-12/msg00108.html (11,411 bytes)

10. Re: Rotary engines (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 22:03:58 -0700
Everything I hear about Japan indicates an obsession with clean engines to the point that they replace engines rather than rebuild them. Where does the rotary fit in that scheme? I would assume the
/html/land-speed/1999-12/msg00110.html (11,383 bytes)


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