X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-PolluStop-Diagnostic: (direct reply)\eX-PolluStop-Score: 0.00\eX-PolluStop: Scanned with Niversoft PolluStop 2.1 RC1, http://www.niversoft.com/pollustop Return-Path: Received: from fed1rmmtao03.cox.net ([68.230.241.36] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c4) with ESMTP id 867238 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:13:25 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.230.241.36; envelope-from=ALVentures@cox.net Received: from BigAl ([68.7.14.39]) by fed1rmmtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050413061235.JFNO1282.fed1rmmtao03.cox.net@BigAl> for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:12:35 -0400 From: "Al Gietzen" To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Rx-8 Rotors in Rx-7 Block Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:12:49 -0700 Message-ID: <000101c53fef$d1ee34b0$6400a8c0@BigAl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0002_01C53FB5.258F5CB0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0002_01C53FB5.258F5CB0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable With all of the above said: We have YET to attain even the SAME = horsepower on the dyno as we are getting from our race engine(s) using the 89-91 non-turbo rotors !!! I think the folks at Mazda ran the data that showed the higher = compression did not give more power above about 6000 rpm on the pre-renesis engines. = We had this discussion once before, but Leon blew me out of the water with something about BMEP (even when measured) was a purely hypothetical = number and didn't relate to hp (even though it is a standard measure of power = used by the engine manufacturers); so I shut up :-) =20 Al ------=_NextPart_000_0002_01C53FB5.258F5CB0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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With all of the above said: We have YET to = attain even the SAME horsepower on the dyno as we are getting from our race = engine(s) using the 89-91 non-turbo rotors !!!

I think the folks at Mazda ran the data = that showed the higher compression did not give more power above about 6000 = rpm on the pre-renesis engines.  We had this discussion once before, but = Leon blew me out of the water with something about BMEP (even when measured) = was a purely hypothetical number and didn’t relate to hp (even though it = is a standard measure of power used by the engine manufacturers); so I shut = up J

 

Al

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