unmuffled rotaries have a particularly heinous noise. i recall my rx7
with the rick gould muffler and no interior feeling like a carbide saw
cutting through my skull. they are also very hot- my co-driver sill
bears the mark-of-the-wankel on his leg.
james
OSP - Outlandish Sounds Produced
>I disagree on the purpose being to slow them down. I went through SCCA
>drivers school at Sears Point. Izzy Sanchez in an RX-2 was gridded to my
>immediate left for the "practice races". This was well before the Mazda
>Muffler was
>required. The RX-2 had a straight pipe exhaust coming out under the passenger
>side door. As we came around turn 11 and brought the power up - The noise
>coming into my left ear from about 6 feet away was not just defining, but
>painful, ear plugs or not. I backed off the throttle and dropped back 25 feet
>to
>regain any composure I might have had. I remember sitting in the pits. You
>could hear every shift from the rotaries rounding turn seven at the back of
>the
>course. Something had to be done about the cacophony coming out of those
>cars.
> It was and, indeed, didn't seem to slow them down at all. - Seth Emerson
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