(thumbing through Lewis Carroll books to find "inferious" and "pugniable"!)
KeS
>From: "Chuck McMillion" <chuck@decaturnet.com>
>Reply-To: "Chuck McMillion" <chuck@decaturnet.com>
>To: <autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: RX7 displacement (was:Z06 Corvette and Nationals?)
>Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:11:00 -0500
>
>um,
>no
>
> Displacemnt is measured by the volume of "open"space in the
>epichrod
>with the rotor in it.
>
>They displace 654 cc per rotor (13B)
>multipling by 1.4 is merely a tool used by the SCCA to specify Pressure
>charged cars vs Naturally aspirated.
>
>It isn't the Rotaries fault that a Piston engine is inferious by basic
>design (some comapies have come in leaps and bound in Pston engine
>technology ie Honda VTEC)
>
>there are three rotor faces, but the displacment between them is still
>654cc (divide that by 3 and that is the per rotor face volume.) you are
>mutiplying it by 9 in your calculations
>
>You aren'y being pugniable about all this are you?
>I am not, i am simply trying to help you understand the rotary from a
>rotorhed.
>
>Take it easy,
>Chuck
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