Now I know there were turbo'd bikes, and there were rotary bikes.... but....

Was there ever a turbo rotary bike?

If not, Mak, get to work, that would be the slickest ride since a greased pig.

Quote from: CirclesCenter on October 12, 2006, 10:42:34 PM
Umm, anyone get the part where i was talking about a "NEW" car?

BTW rotary engine is like a platinum blonde:

High maintenance.

Not the RX-8, it's actually a very practical car, as long as you don't need a ton of space.

There was never a production turbo rotary motocycle, but there were several people who did it for kicks...one of my favorite was a 13B-RE powered sportster.

Quote from: porsche4786 on October 12, 2006, 10:50:34 PM

Quote from: CirclesCenter on October 12, 2006, 10:42:34 PM
Umm, anyone get the part where i was talking about a "NEW" car?

BTW rotary engine is like a platinum blonde:

High maintenance.

Not the RX-8, it's actually a very practical car, as long as you don't need a ton of space.

Hold on, let's see if I can remember the quote from the owner's manual:

Check the oil at every fill up

To check the oil you must remove the engine cover (Held in by allen bolts....)

Oh yeah, what about Car and Driver frequently having to bump start their RX8 on cold days?

BTW it's the nature of the beast, and I like rotaries. They need special care because they are special engines.

Quote from: CirclesCenter on October 12, 2006, 11:01:51 PM

Quote from: porsche4786 on October 12, 2006, 10:50:34 PM

Quote from: CirclesCenter on October 12, 2006, 10:42:34 PM
Umm, anyone get the part where i was talking about a "NEW" car?

BTW rotary engine is like a platinum blonde:

High maintenance.

Not the RX-8, it's actually a very practical car, as long as you don't need a ton of space.

Hold on, let's see if I can remember the quote from the owner's manual:

Check the oil at every fill up

To check the oil you must remove the engine cover (Held in by allen bolts....)

Oh yeah, what about Car and Driver frequently having to bump start their RX8 on cold days?

BTW it's the nature of the beast, and I like rotaries. They need special care because they are special engines.

no sports car is low maintenance, but this is pretty low i'd say. you don't need to check the oil that often, I don't even check mine very often in my 89 and it is never low. Car and driver are idiots....Road and Track is doing a long term test on one and they say it is currently at 46 cents per mile and the average is 44 cents...I'd say that's pretty damn good. $2570 routine maintenance after 50k miles.  What car can you buy now that doesn't have that plastic crap covering the engine? Everything comes with that. And for the battery, maybe they should get a better one....I have an optima and it starts mine up no problem and my car sits outside everyday everynight, and sometimes I don't drive it for a week. The only problem is that sometimes it gets flooded easily, but I can get it to start in 5 minutes without having to remove the spark plugs to get rid of the excess fuel.

It's hard to compare a Turbo II, or any RX-7, to an 8, though.  The engines have almost nothing in common asside being rotary.  It's like comparing an LT1 to and LS2...same number of cylinders but that's where the similarities start getting vague.

Quote from: makenzie71 on October 13, 2006, 09:04:44 AM
It's hard to compare a Turbo II, or any RX-7, to an 8, though.  The engines have almost nothing in common asside being rotary.  It's like comparing an LT1 to and LS2...same number of cylinders but that's where the similarities start getting vague.

Yes, but I'm saying that the wankel is not as efficient as the renesis. I have had to do little work to mine so the 8 would be even less maintenance.

Umm, brand new car + bump start?

I think that was unacceptable anytime past oh 1955, or 1960?

Quote from: porsche4786 on October 13, 2006, 10:07:48 AM
Yes, but I'm saying that the wankel is not as efficient as the renesis. I have had to do little work to mine so the 8 would be even less maintenance.

They're all Wankels, :p.

Efficiency is hard to compare as well...the rotary engine's power production and fuel usage varies so wildly from driver to driver that it's hard to make a solid determination.  On paper the 13B-REW is the most efficient.