AG Schnozz wrote:
> Weren't most of the high-end ones triple-rotor? For example, the
> LeMans Prototypes were triples. Hmm. I am thinking the Prototypes
> in North America used twin-rotors, though. Still, a blown twin-rotor
> in race form will do about 550 HP. I believe the LeMans ones were
> normally aspirated triples producing somewhere around 800 HP and
> punching past 10,500 rpm.
>
Yeah - they were triples. The smaller GTO/GTU RX7's were the ones that
were the most painful.
> Come to think of it, I believe most of the racing rotaries were
> non-turbocharged. That's why they were so loud. The turbos quieted
> them down quite substantially. In the barely street legal
> categories, the non-turbos were twice as loud.
The GTP cars were 4-rotor motors. Found a quote from one pit observer
that said it sounded like a panther being dragged through a car wash.
Yeah, that's about right.
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