new rotary engine trouble ?

I had the hots for a Mazda vehicle with a rotary engine, but decided against it when the price / series of available cars exceeded my budget. Was never really serious tho.

But in searching for info on the rotary engine (very interesting / informative) I saw where there is an engine plant being constructed in China - just to manufacture - rotary engines for use - world-wide.

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Heh. Last time I was in NYC I was waiting to cross the road when one pulled up at the lights. It's not often I've stood motionless, mouth open, thinking "what in the name of all that is holy is THAT?!?"

Actually, it happened twice that trip - Aztek and Cayenne....

I like the look of the 300C in a poor man's Flying Spur pastiche kinda way.

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Nice to see the AMC Pacer project is still leaving its mark!

And as for sweet dreams - I've just been woken up by a stray cat hammering on the catflap. Some visiting kid had locked it and the cat had got in but couldn't get out.

Its a beautiful car. That's the wonderful thing about opinions- you're entitled to hold a silly one :-)

One of the big car magazines was doing a "shootout" style road test and comparison of several of the high-end (~80,000 US dollar) 450+ horsepower luxury/performance cars recently. A BMW 7-series with a V10 and the Chris Bangle styling from hell, One of the new-style (looks like a turtle after an encounter with a semi truck) Benz's with the 5.4 Kompressor engine, one of the angry window-AC styled Cadillacs with a supercharged Northstar. At the end of the test, another group from their magazine showed up at the track with a Dodge Charger SRT-8 (same chassis as that 300 you're ragging on) and its normally-aspirated bone-stock

You guys just need to slide behind the wheel of one of the Hemi powered Chrysler LX-chassis cars before you write them off so casually.... else you'll end up looking at its taillight

I understand a wankel type engine for aircraft use is under development by Mistral Geneva Switzerland as reported by Tribune de Gen=E8ve on 28 March 2006. RW Bonhoff retired Civil Aviation Consultant 15 April 2006

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Speaking of 5W-20, the Mazda went blotto on the stuff. All rotaries supply oil to the combustion chambers to lubricate the rotor seals. The RX-8's new Renesis rotary has a computer-controlled injection pump that is supposed to meter out about one quart every 10,000 miles. For some reason our RX-8 guzzled one quart an average of every 3600 miles, demanding a total of 11 extra quarts and drinking its sump dry enough to flash the ominous low-oil warning on no fewer than five occasions.

Above is from part of that C&D article.

Therefore, since oil is injected into the cylinders along with the gas-air mix, that makes it essentially a 2-cycle engine with valves????????? :screwy:

Any car is unsafe; airbags etc. merely reduce the level of danger.

safe is not a word which should be used in the comparative mode - safe "kann nicht gesteigert werden"

wish I had a mazda 8 - low-ash motor oil by texaco / chevron is available.

seals seem to be the most mentioned problem with mazda, but they will overcome it.

I read that China is building an engine factory to produce nothing but rotary auto engines, to be sold - to the world market.

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=3D=3D=3D glad you ask,:--)

an '05 Dodge Stratus sxt sedan w/2.4L engine.

mho v=83e

well, I'd settle for a new dodge magnum, they are so ugly - they're attractive.

mho v=83e

Oil mixing with the fuel has NOTHING to do with whether an engine is "2-cycle" or not. Whether an engine is 2- or 4- cycle has to do with how many distinct phases of the combustion process exist, and whether they're cleanly divided into intake-compression-burn-exhaust, or whether they blur into exhaust/intake and compression/burn. There are plenty of

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