Chuck
Jim Burkdol has rotary in his streamliner for the second year.He got about 2
miles last year and lost the seals.
Gary
Gary & Ellen Wilkinson
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Rothfuss <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 3:59 PM
Subject: Rotary engines, Hmmmmm...
> Dick, List,
>
> Yup, I've been building and racing these crazy rotaries for a long
time,
> but this'll be the first one I've had in a Mazda chassis since I made the
> swap from Mazda RX3's to Datsun's 510 chassis 16 years ago. If I'd
thought
> about it I may have returned to Mazda chassis long ago. It's a classic
> round peg in a square hole doing the Mazda/Datsun swap. The RX7 is so
easy
> to plop my slightly longer engines into that I'll just have to find
> something else to complicate things. (Like not letting my wife know I'm
> building a new car!)
>
> I really feel like the lone ranger sometimes running a rotary. I can
> count on the fingers of one hand all the rotary land-speed cars I've ever
> heard of, and can count on one finger all rotary powered land-speed cars
> that didn't use a Mazda chassis. That makes rotaries almost as rare as
> Ardun's at Maxton events.
>
> If I can ever get everything together for the new engine, I'll have one
> car in the Production (GT) category, one in the Modified category, (GC,
ALT)
> and a partners project for the Production mini pick-up class (Yup, Mazda
> made a rotary Pick-up!) that can run any of my engines.
>
> So what do I do when I get tired of the rotaries? I was thinking about
a
> V4/GT RX7.
>
> Chuck Rothfuss
> ECTA
> Pole Cat Hollow, NC
>
>
> At 09:01 AM 8/9/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> >If I remember right, seems to me you have had
> >some pretty good luck with them no-pistons HMMMMM
> >motors, ain't ya?
> >
> >Dick J
> >
> >
> >--- Chuck Rothfuss <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>
> >wrote:
> >> Dick, salt addicts, & whoever else is left of
> >> The List,
> >>
> >> How about pavement pounders from Down East?
> >> Probably a few more of us
> >> sitting this one out. I'm not going anywhere,
> >> (doubt I'd survive the drive
> >> to B-ville) and would sure am happy to see some
> >> chatter on the list while
> >> everyone else is heading out to enjoy the salt.
> >> I'm liable to have some
> >> tech questions as I tear into the newest of my
> >> free RX7 projects. (The
> >> harder I look the more I realize just why they
> >> were FREE!)
> >>
> >> Good luck to any travelers who are still
> >> checking their mail on the way
> >> out the door.
> >> Maybe somebody will be able to give us a kinda
> >> daily report from the salt,
> >> so we don't feel so left out.
> >>
> >> Chuck Rothfuss
> >> 105 in Pole Cat Hollow, NC today!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> At 09:24 AM 8/8/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> >> >Okay, I know Doug and I are staying "Home
> >> Alone".
> >> >Are there any other salt addicts that are
> >> going
> >> >to be home for the next week or so who will
> >> help
> >> >keep this list alive? It gets so lonely
> >> during
> >> >Speed Week when you are one of the
> >> >"unfortunates". No more bud - -no more! Next
> >> >year -I'm on the salt!
> >> >
> >> >=====
> >> >.............................
> >> >..........Dick J.............
> >> >......(In East Texas)........
> >> >..........# 729..............
> >> >........Roadsters............
> >> >.Hemis and Flatheads Forever.
> >> >.............................
> >>
> >
> >
> >=====
> >.............................
> >..........Dick J.............
> >......(In East Texas)........
> >..........# 729..............
> >........Roadsters............
> >.Hemis and Flatheads Forever.
> >.............................
> >
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