Hey man. Love what you do and love your videos. There are not many people out there that do actual circuit racing / high load for sustained periods of time with rotary engines so information as to what actually matters to make them last seems really sparse. n/a rotaries are my platform of choice now for my track cars so I hope I make the right decisions. Starting with OEM seals, 8500rpm limit and 1:100 premix ratio for one or two full seasons and then inspect wear, and judge whether or not it really needs ceramics. If there is anything you can recommend / are willing to share I'd highly appreciate it. Cheers and keep doing what you do
Not sure - but I know at one point (for WTAC?) they were running nitrous as well - so the car isn't entirely "n/a" :P Good on ya tho - I wish I had some road-courses here local to me. I guess a targa is the next best thing! Just that a once a year event isn't much to look forward to :S
WTAC for 2016/2017 we did use nitrous, but we were still classed as an N/A entry. For the endurance racing, we knock back the RPM slightly to conserve the engine and fuel. Most other factors for long-distance racing were already considered for sprint racing, so there wasn't much that we changed in terms of engine performance. One thing to note would be driver and diff/gearbox cooling, which we did later solve.
The excitement I get when I see you upload every now and again and remember what this channel is
Very under rated channel.. Not even a rotary guy myself but dam there are some great cars and great driving here
Hey man. Love what you do and love your videos. There are not many people out there that do actual circuit racing / high load for sustained periods of time with rotary engines so information as to what actually matters to make them last seems really sparse. n/a rotaries are my platform of choice now for my track cars so I hope I make the right decisions. Starting with OEM seals, 8500rpm limit and 1:100 premix ratio for one or two full seasons and then inspect wear, and judge whether or not it really needs ceramics. If there is anything you can recommend / are willing to share I'd highly appreciate it.
Cheers and keep doing what you do
Not sure - but I know at one point (for WTAC?) they were running nitrous as well - so the car isn't entirely "n/a" :P
Good on ya tho - I wish I had some road-courses here local to me. I guess a targa is the next best thing! Just that a once a year event isn't much to look forward to :S
WTAC for 2016/2017 we did use nitrous, but we were still classed as an N/A entry. For the endurance racing, we knock back the RPM slightly to conserve the engine and fuel. Most other factors for long-distance racing were already considered for sprint racing, so there wasn't much that we changed in terms of engine performance. One thing to note would be driver and diff/gearbox cooling, which we did later solve.