Rotary engines, they've got no torque, they're rubbish.
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Turbo = Can't go rallying. Unless we convert it to diesel, which may be a little difficult.
Besides, turbo lag = fail
Besides, turbo lag = fail
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No air-con/PAS pump, underdrive pulleys, some intake modifications, tiny flywheel, some slight tidying of the exhaust port castings, standalone management, a proper siamesed LCB exhaust manifold, the silencers are straight through designs, no cat, higher rev. limit, ceramic coated intake with PTFE gaskets to keep the intake temperatures down a little (quite high originally we found), more efficient water pump, a little more charge time on the coils helped too, surprisingly.
Fuel rail was altered to a pass-through to stop the fuel boiling in the rail - there's some heat in that bugger as standard too.
Nothing huge mechanically but lots of little changes.
Fuel rail was altered to a pass-through to stop the fuel boiling in the rail - there's some heat in that bugger as standard too.
Nothing huge mechanically but lots of little changes.
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It's the shock loading that kills 'em over the rough stuff, took out the end of a 300M driveshaft and cracked the chro-moly race cages on 2 CV joints too.
Still, back going again now!
Still, back going again now!
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It's a Cavalier
Not totally sure, but I think I see the slippage problem... There are numerous photons of light passing unobstructed beneath your tires.
![](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/Rippthrough/Airborne02.jpg)
So, if when hitting water, it's called "hydroplaning", this is an example of "airplaning"
![](https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/Rippthrough/Airborne02.jpg)
So, if when hitting water, it's called "hydroplaning", this is an example of "airplaning"
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That's rotary engines don't have **** for torque check out this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ZStKvjVTk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ZStKvjVTk
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Aw bugger, I knew I shouldn't have converted it to hydrogen...