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Was where the hot action was innit? Anyway, it didn't weigh any more
than the average GP600 did it?

Whatever, I think the 600 clas was dominated by 4 strokers at the time
wasn't it. I'd have thought that as a smoker afficianado, you'd
appreciate the diesel feed

 

I just looked at the RX8 spec. Non turbo punts 238bhp. They call it a
1.3litre! and that will be the swept volume of one vane. There was a
justifiable argument that with three vanes to the rotor the capacity was
actually x3. 238 ponies from a 3.3 sounds more realistic. I'll bet the
insewrance companies think that way too.

 

tallbloke said....

GP600?? I dunno what races you were watching, but they weren't on planet
earth

Diesel? again, your racing experience was in another universe. The only
diesel engines I know of in UK motorsport are in truck racing. Rotaries
work on petrol and with a spark from a spark plug, unlike a compression
combustion engine with diesel fuel and no spark plugs.

 

<cough>
3.9

 

Err, I meant 600cc GP bikes.

<anorak mode>
The Norton Rotary uses a diesel feed for it's total loss lubrication
circuit.
</am>

 

<cough> power to weight ratio.

 

Lozzo wrote:

How modest of you. Claiming that an 1800cc 6 cylinder 4 stroke
is only 600cc is more than a little cheeky.

 

It does have a weight advantage for sure, especially over any 3.9 litre car
engine, so why lie about the capacity.

 

Persactly.
Some people even suggested 2 vanes per rotor should be counted, not 1 or 3,
too many mushrooms I guess.

 

It looks like an 850 twin in terms of lumpen engine size to me.

The finning reminds me of a Suzuki 500 stroker.

Subjective I know.But I can't be arsed looking up the relative weights
of the Norton Rotary thaty got banned and the 4 cylinder 4 stroke Japper
which won the next race ATM.

You're getting it mixedup with Lozzo's Diesels Shirley?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Dr Ivan D. Reid

Yahoo "dodgy haircuts" group? No, you're both on there.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Dr Ivan D. Reid

#And we come from Aussie-land...

 

Wtf?

 

Quite possibly. Sender was a scientist yclept Janaki Blum, resident in
Switzerland (that'll be the connection, then), and an old friend from
university[1].

She's probably on the same list, and she knows my interest in engines.

[1] Where I read law, Des....

 

Wtf?[/QUOTE]

They're just like 500cc GP bikes, but better screwed together.

 

Excellent - I've never quite understood how a jet engine works,
because no previous explanation had included the information that it
works the same was as a jet engine, in that thrust forward is
equivalent to the momentum of the stuff thrown out the back.

 

So now you know that a jet engine works the same way as a jet engine
you're perfectly happy, yes?

 

You should have said. It's a first year undergrad bit of physics.
Conversation of momentum and all that...

 

IPS he meant "The turbojet employs the same principle as the rocket"

 

None of any of this alters the fact that it was:

a) A remarkable engineering achievement
b) Fast as ****.
c) Comparitively light for it's power output
d) A Norton ;-)