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Yes but you are comparing 1950s technology to 2020 technology. Sounds like the mechanical design was a bit ahead of the capabilities of materials science and re
by willyt 6y ago
Yes but you are comparing 1950s technology to 2020 technology. Sounds like the mechanical design was a bit ahead of the capabilities of materials science and readily accessible metal fabrication technology at the time. I expect if you could add the amount of refinements and digital augmentation that modern diesels have, you could get the maintenance down to similar levels, but like the Wankel rotary engine no-one is willing to bear the cost of redoing the last 70 years of engineering optimisations that have been done to the standard Diesel engine configuration.
- Judgmentality 6y ago> but like the Wankel rotary engine no-one is willing to bear the cost of redoing the last 70 years of engineering optimisations Mazda tried bringing this back with the RX-8. It was a failure, and while everybody loves the "spirit" of the wankel, outside of the infamous 787B I think people are always going to remember it for the theory instead of the application. If we're going to talk about using modern engineering capabilities, perhaps we should be discussing the quasiturbine engine? At least in theory it solves many of the problems of the rotary engine, although I suspect it will be a nightmare of complexity that never becomes reliable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiturbine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiturbine