rotary engines are more reliable then normal engines mazda jsut ****ed up the recent one not the rx-8 but the other and it's not the rotar or that itself that alwasy ****s up it's the sequential turbos but rotarys have less moving parts and almost never tend to break

 

i will explain a concept:

you could take almost any engine, spend X amount of money on building it, and get Y amount of output.

for instance, VW's 2.slow engine. 2.0 Liter, SOHC, 115 bhp, literal piece of turd. throw on a turbo setup, rebuild internals, good engine management, 21 psi, and you're running 10 second 1/4 miles.

another example: d16 engine. turbo setup. enough 10's of thousands of dollars and it's putting out 400 hp.

the point is, all of these cars can be fast. do you have the money to make them fast? are you willing to spend it? that's all it is. some engines are easier to build than others, and other chassis are better than others, but in the end how deep are your pockets?

 

no i was commenting on it because ive driven it, and raced it on a autoX track.

i may be wrong but i was under the impression that the internal engine seals on the rotor are what tends to wear out by 80k-100k. i didnt mean to say its not reliable, i meant that it tends to burn more oil and lose compression faster than a normal piston engine.

other than that its a great idea, wankel designed it like 60 years ago to be the most efficient engine, and ill bet it is.

my main point is that mazda is just throwing a hype party, thats the impression i got from the RevItUp Tour, tons of free shit, free autoX clinic with brand new mazda's. you know kinda trying to build popularity with the enthusiast crowd.

~boom

 

yeah, the apex seals are a mofo.

 

Your not wrong, anyone who has done any research on rotaries or RX-7s know this.