Must.... try.... not.... to.... respond........... ugh!
Oh yeah? Well my 125cc kart motor makes about 32 HP... which is about
256HP per liter.... beat that wankel boy!
But seriously, all our cars pretty much rock....
Corvette's rock! In fact, they are way too cool, horsepower _is_ a
beautiful thing. I thoroughly enjoyed driving Don McKenna's Vette!
Way more than I was expecting to! I'm hearing a C5 is even better!
S2000s rock! I thoroughly enjoyed riding in Kit's S2000 and I look
forward to the end of April when one will most likely be appearing
in my driveway once these pesky stock options things vest. Even my
relatively low revving Integra is fun to wind up! Same with the new
Civic Si! I can't wait for the opportunity to wind out an NSX!
Miata's rock! I thoroughly enjoyed driving every miata I've ever
driven. Even David Gould's rediculously stupid turbo-charged beast!
Talk about a rabid monkey! Yeeeeeehaw!!!
Rotary's rock! I thoroughly enjoyed driving my dad's RX-7 and will
most likely enjoy driving my new FP rotary toy. By the way, how loud
do these things get with a straight pipe out the manifold???? :) hehe
As Katie sorta said, car sluts do it because they enjoy it! :) If
you're adamant on not driving different cars you're missing out on
a lot of fun... to each his own
--Darren
Michael R. Clements wrote:
>
> Jesus Villarreal wrote:
> >
> > Michael R. Clements wrote:
> > >
> > > Torque schmorque, torque is for wimps. Rotary rice burners don't
> > > have much torque but they go 0 to 60 in 4.8 seconds, and that's
> > > enough to beat most of those Vettes and Porsches. I'll take
> > > screaming wankel squirrels on crack over a big fiberglass boat
> > > powered by 100 year old thump-thump technology.
> >
> > I guess you don't mind being second best then.:)) And it's only 45 year
> > good ol' American tech not one hundred year old. The wankel has been
> > around at least that long also, if my memory is any good, 1945 in
> > Germany sounds about right, albeit not very reliable until the Japanese
> > made it work pretty good. Now put a turbo on one of those V8's and we'll
> > see which one gets there first. You don't see any Top Fuel dragsters
> > with wankels in them, or F1 cars, now, do we ????
> >
> > Jesus
>
> The first wankel engine ever to run was in 1957. The first piston
> engine ever to run (steam powered) was in the 1700s. The piston
> engine has had about 250 years more development time than the
> Wankel (guess that makes it 250 year old thump-thump technology).
>
> Even 250 years of development time has not enabled the piston
> engine to outperform the Wankel. The reason you don't see Wankels
> in racing more often is that they were so successful they were
> outlawed. Honda brags about the fact that the new S2000 generates
> 120 hp per liter; this is impressive, but Mazda gets 211 hp per
> liter with the new 13B. Both engines are normally aspirated.
> Wankel rules!
>
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