Rear-engine mounted for 50/50. Less drive-train loss and maintain the rear-wheel drive. Make the RX-? considerably lighter and slap a Renesis in it. I'm sure the numbers would make it a more serious contender. Crazy idea I know.

 

what the hell are you talking about?

no matter where you put the engine, crank hp is still the same crank hp. Thats why its called crank hp.

i hope you mean to say WHP and even then i hope you are just joking.

 

Not crazy at all. The mid-engine 3- and 4-rotor Mercedes C101/111 from the late 60s was one of the most promising rotaries ever. I think that was the car that got GM thinking seriously about a rotary Corvette.

Not sure why MB abandoned the rotary after they made some important advances in direct injection and I forget what the fuel economy was but it must not have been great 'cause I do recall it had two 16-gallon gas tanks.

 

I think all he means is that you would lose less hp from the crank to the wheels.

 

I meant parasitic loss from crank to wheels.

 

chevy made a version of the corvette with a rotary engine in it... but the gas crisis in the 70's caused them to drop the idea
they even toured america in the car

 

 

Your threads are responsible for parasitic loss of brain activity.

 

^ owned

 

PotatoSoup speaks the truth

 

this is a perfect opportunity for some alfy artwork.

 

haha^ yes. this thread made me "lol" when i saw the title

 

damn.

i dont even know what to say.

 

^That figures...you probably don't even know what parasitic loss means.

 

This threads fails miserably, what a waste of my life.

Another insightful thread from rotard.

 

Ya know, rotard always puts out quality reads like another member here. Man what's his name.....oh yeah, Zumn.

 

no report, no ban..

that simple.

beers

 

You would still have losses with a transaxle as with a conventional layout. the only difference is that you don't have a driveshaft. Moving the engine to the back would make a rear heavy car that would want to swap ends in the corners like the older 911's.

Rotard hasn't violated any rules for the forum. Nor, has he done anything to **** off the Mod staff. Replies to his posts come closer to that. We can't just go around deleting posts & banning people because we disagree with their posts.
If you don't like what he has to say, don't open his posts.