LOL how would you describe a rotary engine
05-22-2007, 03:04 AM
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LOL how would you describe a rotary engine
How about a thread explaining how you would describe what a rotary engine is to a person who isn't as engine savvy as you are?
me: it has no cylinders, pistons, valves and it just revs high (lol)
me: it has no cylinders, pistons, valves and it just revs high (lol)
05-22-2007, 06:40 AM
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I usually just point to my seat and say "You see that triangle-thing in my seat?... Two of those things get bounced around in a cirlcle inside of the engine."
That's usually followed up with a "wow - you must get pretty good gas mileage with a tiny engine like that."
...*sigh*
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05-22-2007, 08:54 AM
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Its a triangle that rotates in a oval housing..........tryin to use my hands to emulate the rotary and how it spins lol. Looks like i'm a magician or high on something 
05-22-2007, 09:35 AM
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Like this - http://www.rotary13b1.com/keychain4.html
05-22-2007, 10:34 AM
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There are two groups of people that ask questions: People you feel like answering (friends, hot chicks, show judges) and people you don't feel like answering (random asshats at shows). A math head neighbor asked me and we actually got as far as how the geometric ratios of the engine determine the base compression ratio. Most of the time I either feign ignorance or give very short, often incorrect answers.
I think I've told people in the past:
It runs on diesel.
It's like a jet turbine.
The pistons spin.
It has triangular pistons.
It runs on goatsblood and happy thoughts.
I think I've told people in the past:
It runs on diesel.
It's like a jet turbine.
The pistons spin.
It has triangular pistons.
It runs on goatsblood and happy thoughts.
05-22-2007, 10:52 AM
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Damn, someone beat me to this.
For you youngsters, back in the day when Mazda ONLY sold rotary engines and put them in 2 or 3 different types of cars, PLUS a pickup truck (this being the early/mid 1970s era), their ad campaign was:
"Other cars go boing boing boing boing boing boing boing (with a sound effect instead of the onamatopoeia "boing" there), and a Mazda goes HMMMMMMMMM"
For you youngsters, back in the day when Mazda ONLY sold rotary engines and put them in 2 or 3 different types of cars, PLUS a pickup truck (this being the early/mid 1970s era), their ad campaign was:
"Other cars go boing boing boing boing boing boing boing (with a sound effect instead of the onamatopoeia "boing" there), and a Mazda goes HMMMMMMMMM"
05-22-2007, 02:39 PM
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05-22-2007, 02:41 PM
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There are two groups of people that ask questions: People you feel like answering (friends, hot chicks, show judges) and people you don't feel like answering (random asshats at shows). A math head neighbor asked me and we actually got as far as how the geometric ratios of the engine determine the base compression ratio. Most of the time I either feign ignorance or give very short, often incorrect answers.
I think I've told people in the past:
It runs on diesel.
It's like a jet turbine.
The pistons spin.
It has triangular pistons.
It runs on goatsblood and happy thoughts.
I think I've told people in the past:
It runs on diesel.
It's like a jet turbine.
The pistons spin.
It has triangular pistons.
It runs on goatsblood and happy thoughts.
05-22-2007, 06:41 PM
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