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Yeah, this is a good setup for a rotary. Its kinda like the Porsche 918, with its super high revving, tiny racecar V6 that only made power at high RPM, compensa
by brucethemoose2 3y ago
Yeah, this is a good setup for a rotary. Its kinda like the Porsche 918, with its super high revving, tiny racecar V6 that only made power at high RPM, compensated by a electric motor everywhere else... Though I question if Mazda will really be able to keep the curb weight down. Other manufacturers just can't seem to help themselves, and stuff tons if heavy junk in modern cars.
Maybe tuners (or Mazda themself?) will put a centrifugal supercharger on it later. They seem to be en vogue, they are simple and light, and they don't butcher timings/compression and such as much as a turbocharger or other superchargers, with was a major pain point with the RX-8 Wankel.
- HPsquared 3y agoHow about supercharger (or turbocharger) + exhaust energy recovery turbine? Perhaps coupled to an electric generator? Would be a nice match to the hybrid electric system.
- brucethemoose2 3y ago> exhaust energy recovery turbine That would be a turbocharger. And electric turbocharger and driveshaft turbochargers are also a thing. The problem with turbo is backpressure from the exhaust energy recovery part, which compromises some other engine tuning. And the problem with traditional superchargers is low efficiency + high boost in low RPMs, same issue. A centrifugal supercharger is relatively efficient and basically only does anything at high RPM, so from what I understand it won't "upset" the compression of the rotary or highly tuned NA engines as much as a traditional turbo/supercharger.
- potta_coffee 3y agoThey can do it. The ND Miata was actually lighter than the NA Miata, which is quite a feat.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoYeah, the Miata is amazing. Dare I say it, it would be better than the RX8/RX9 if they just put a big wankel in it.
- potta_coffee 3y agoI have an NA, it's great, I love it. My dream car is still the twin turbo FD.