Wheels always turning in this inventor's mind(rot.eng.,50%+fuel eff.-no tran.,coolant reqd)

Richmond Times Dispatch ^ | 10-19-03 | BOB RAYNER

[Dan Nunn]

They have. Just yesterday I washed and detailed a new Mazda RX-8 with 750 miles on it. It's pretty fast, but I, too, have heard the complaints about fuel economy in rotary engines. They seem to have made every other aspect marketable, however, as they're featured in their premier sports car, designed to be driven hard. Other than the fuel economy, the only other downside is repair costs, in case something does go wrong with it. Other than that, not a bad design, but I'll still take the believe-it-when-I-see-it approach to the "revolutionary internal combustion engine successors."

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Exactly. I built a Chevy 350 in my garage in 1 week.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Here was the prototype after only 30 years and $300,000...

[PsyOp]

why not give out a horse power and torque rating?

My thoughts exactly. High rpms means little unless you can convert them to torque applied to the wheels.

[SC Swamp Fox]

FreeRepublic is an "engineer rich" environment. It seems that half the male freepers I have met are in engineering or manufacturing. (The majority of the rest are managers, small business owners or computer geeks.)

[FlyVet]

Isuzu was working on ceramic piston engines a good 20 yrs ago. Haven't heard anything about it in years, so obviously it didn't pan out.

[Future Useless Eater]

>> On second thought, fishy is too weak. I'm smelling hot steaming fresh bovine scat.

I tend to agree. There are lots of millionaires and billionaires out there who could cough up 200 G's without blinking if the guy had even a 1% chance of success.

Especially the rich tree-hugging enviro-whacko's like Streisand with mansions on the ocean with 26 fireplaces.

[putupon]

Damn!
I saw this in Popular Mechanics in 1947...
And 1954...
And 1968..
and 1971...
And....

am I excited, or what?

Yeah, those goofy ideas never turn out.