Power, whether measured as HP, PS, or KW is what accelerates cars and gets it up to top speed. Power also determines how far you take a wall when you hit it
Engine torque is an illusion.
no, that's why i asked
i remembered there being a limiting factor to these kind of enlarged rotary's, but couldn't remember what it was
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well the real limiting factor is this:
it is only possible to get the eccentric shaft into the engine if it has 2 or less lobes. the three rotor 20B actually has a two-piece eccentric shaft which is aligned with a key. The first 4 rotor engine had a 3 piece eccentric shaft (1 shaft with two lobes in the middle and 1 lobe added to each end) and later versions where made with 2 piece shafts (keyed joint in the middle).
The more keyed joints you have the weaker the eccentric shaft.
You could possibly make a 6 rotor wankel engine but anything over that is going to be difficult (not to mention ridiculously long and unweildy).
Power, whether measured as HP, PS, or KW is what accelerates cars and gets it up to top speed. Power also determines how far you take a wall when you hit it
Engine torque is an illusion.
That only accounts for the difference between shaft and rotor speed. The rotor spins 3x slower than the shaft, so theres still only one power pulse per rotation.
Its more comparable to a 2 stroke engine, which has a similar 1 pulse per rotation and has a x2 equivalency factor for displacement.
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ok, cool.
i thought the fuel economy thing was mainly because rotary's haven't been developed/researched as much as piston engines
like, a small block chev back in the day would use more fuel/be less efficient than a contemporary LS series engine, that kind of thing
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No it isen't..
If we take the 13B engine it only uses 654ccm (As is present in one such rotary department) to fulfill one combustion cycle. (Mind you, this cycle has been all the way round the engine). Just because another cycle starte before the other is complete dosen't mean it uses the collected size to power it. Even if that was the case, then you wouldn't have to count the size as 3 times as big since it effectivly only has 1,5 combustion cycles started at any one time. (Hence the reason why it's displacement is multiplied by 1,5 should you choose to run this engine in a race)
You do realize that 4stroke engines uses 2 crakshaft revolutions per combustion cycle? Should we then double their effective displacement? Compared to the rotary which only uses one? Fact is, piston movements/rotary rotations just dosen't have anything to do with the effective displacement.
Try squeezing 180hp from a 1,3 piston engine and see how much mileage you get. I bet you it won't be much more than 10km/l which is roughly what the Rx8 does. Hell, my 1,9 engine (With 110hp) is allmost down there. Besides that. You never see 1,3 piston engines in so large cars, which also gives to give a wrong impression of mileage.
Thing is. You just can't compare piston and wankel engines. (Even tho i just did)
CAMS here in Australia have a multiplication factor they run for rotarys is capacity cc X 1.8 or supercharged rotary cc x 3.06
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thanks fpv and bueno for assisting ht's understanding.
The whole issue of why rotaries got to win everything they tried the first time out is that the regs didn't cover the complexity of swept volue of a wankel chamber.
So the regs were then changed and played aroudn with till various equivalency figures were agreed.
So ht, initilaly the argument for 3*volume was proposed but clearly over penalised the performance of the engine. As charged says folks then approached common grounds ( with a few small variations ) across motoring organsiations.
Therea re still odd cases ... eg in Ireland MY car is taxed as a 1.3 but here int he UK ( and everywhere else I know of ) it's seenas a 2.6 !
hmmm so if I put a 3:1 gearset between a normal piston engine and the output shaft then it's displacement should also be divided by 3?
I am not talking about equivalency factors that are used for racing I am just talking about the actual displacement caused by the moving parts in the engine.
Also 2 strokes don't have x2 equivalency factor when you buy one for street use. If you buy a 250cc 2-stroke single cylinder motorcycle then the engine will have a bore around 68mm and a stroke around 68mm (if its a square engine) it won't be a 125cc engine...
Actually Wankel engines are almost as developed as any modern piston engine is. The new 16X engine that is coming out has direct petrol injection and runs at a decent compression ratio. The main reason why wankel engines are inefficient is more to do with current designs having too much surface area per volume especially during combustion, this leads to high heat loss.Originally Posted by clutch-monkey
What? by that reasoning then a 2L inline 4 piston engine should be called a 500cc engine as only one combustion event is occuring at any one time!?!Originally Posted by Buen
All three (3) sides of each rotor in a wankel engine is producing displacement at all times and one (1) full revolution (thats 360 degrees) of the rotor will displace a total of 1962cc.
Its not about how many revolutions of the crank is needed to complete a full cycle! I am not talking aout "effective" displacement I am talking about actual engine displacement... Each wankel rotor uses three sides to produce displacement... a piston only uses one side in a normal engine.Originally Posted by Buen
Matra: I fully understand that there are different equivalency factors that are applied when a certain amount of equalisation is needed in racing enviroments. I also fully understand that Mazda was able to get the engines classified as 1.3L engines for tax purposes and that some countries have since reclassified them as 2.6L engines...
But none of that has anything to do with actual displacement of the engines which is what I am talking about.
Power, whether measured as HP, PS, or KW is what accelerates cars and gets it up to top speed. Power also determines how far you take a wall when you hit it
Engine torque is an illusion.
I can't believe this hasn't been said yet, but 7.0L V8 as in the LS7.R. Great sound, outstanding performance and damn near bulletproof.
ht, the ACTUAL displacement of the engine by traditional means is 1.3
THe "combustion chamber maximum size".
Having to talk about swept voume and it's relevance makes it confusing for some.
NO, it's not the same as a "gear" for the Wankel. THe offset crank is as much a part as a classic banger. So again, another point of contention on what shoudl and shoudl not be taken into account.
The actual "displacement" is the SMALLEST of the figures ht.
When it goes "bang" that is the power pulse and thus SHOULD be the only one of interest. ... or to borrow one of your analogies, shuold a single cylinder engine be compared the same as a rotary IF it spins 3 times faster ?
By ALL measnures the only one that is widely accepted as NOT the right one is to add up ALL the chambers of a rotary !!!
Clearly we havent.
HT, forget about the displacement, swept volume and all that crap and just concentrate on the power pulses. Just like a 2 stroke, a wankel rotary produces a pulse for each RPM. 4 strokes produce a pulse for every 2 RPM. That is why x2 is the most common equivalency for both. Your scenario has the factor applied the wrong way; a 250cc 2 stroke is equivalent to a 500cc 4 stroke.
RPM isnt measured by the rotation of the rotor in the wankel, its by the rotation of the eccentric shaft, which is 3x that of the rotor. That means when the engine reads 9000rpm, the rotor is only spinning at 3000rpm. That balances having 3x the combustion surfaces, as at 9000rpm you've still only got 9000 pulses per minute, whilst a 9000rpm 4 stroke reciprocating motor only has 4500.
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Btw, when talking about 2stroke engines i think Fpv ment with a 2xequivilancy factor that a 2 stroke engine produces 2 times the horse power with the same displacement.
Edit: On a little side note. When i was much younger and meddeling with scooters. I once at a gathering saw 1 person with a 80ccm tuning kit trow a massive 26hk. Allthough theese machines won't last much more than 250-500km before needing to get the piston replaced.
Last edited by Buen; 05-26-2009 at 12:40 PM.
haha there's actually a company that makes small rotaries to suit go karts, would be awesome imo (i'd choose it for a race engine...gokart racing.)
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