Dwayne,
The oil burn is probably pretty close. I plan
to premix my oil and fuel at ¾ oz per gal. That will work out to fairly close
to a quart every five hours. I don’t expect to have to add any oil to
the crankcase between changes. I am not flying so take it for what it is
worth.
I doubt anyone will try to talk you into
going with the Mazda. Generally you either want to or you don’t. Them
that want to you likely couldn’t talk out of it, them that don’t,
well, they probably shouldn’t.
Bill B
From: Rotary motors in
aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Dwayne Parkinson
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 5:43
PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Bad rotary
week
For anyone hoping that a 16X would
show up any time soon: not ... gonna ... happen. No RX7 and the RX8
is still powered by the Renesis for 2011.
As if that's not bad enough, when I
was at Oshkosh
I took in David Atkins rotary seminar. I came away pretty depressed
thinking that I probably won't put a rotary engine in my airplane. Is
everyone else really using 1 quart of oil every 5 hours? He also didn't
have much good to say about the Renesis in an aviation application which leads
me to conclude that the 16X will fare even worse in aviation applications as it
is tweaked to meet higher EPA requirements and produce more low end torque.
Is anyone but Tracy using a Renesis? I'd really like
to know what HP you're getting, what the fuel burn is and how it's holding up.
P.S. I couldn't find any rotary
planes on the field at Oshkosh.
Perhaps they sank into the mud.