Rotary powered micro van hoonage

Behold the glowing exhaust!

I like Australians.

One day I will build a car with such obscene power that it will vaporize the rear tires at will. I will be happy.

EvanB wrote: One day I will build a car with such obscene power that it will vaporize the rear tires at will. I will be happy.

I do know where there is an LS1 for your Miata... add a coupla turbos...

I agree...I want an obscenely fast car...able to defeat a horde of mosquitos on a single set of tires.

I'm not listening.

A mid engine rotary van. Cool. Looked sorta unstable, didn't it?

And for you non rotary guys, THAT is why you use headers made of .120 wall tubing.

looks like a good time to me.

anybody notice it toss a chunk of something glowing out the exhaust at 2:20?

Yeah, sure did. Probably a chunk of carbon or a piece of weld slag etc.

Curmudgeon wrote: Yeah, sure did. Probably a chunk of carbon or a piece of weld slag etc.

Or an apex seal.

Felix Wankle is turning over in his grave...and fist pumping and shouting and dancing! WOO HOO!!! That's a great commercial for rotary awesomeness.

Duke wrote:

Curmudgeon wrote: Yeah, sure did. Probably a chunk of carbon or a piece of weld slag etc.

Or an apex seal.

Too small.

Curmudgeon wrote: Looked sorta unstable, didn't it?

At least when stock, those things actually have a pretty low center of gravity. They have a "skateboard" frame, all the mechanicals are below floor level, the cabin just sits on top.

There are plenty of those for sale around here...makes you think.

If I can't find a decent head for my Mitsubishi van I will be mounting a 13B in it. Of course it won't be capable of that sort of thing as mine will have to be an automatic, because I don't want to or have the capabilities of doing a manual swap. 4-port 13B should be pretty strong for a little van like that though.

Australia rules by the way!!!!

Curmudgeon wrote:

Duke wrote:

Curmudgeon wrote: Yeah, sure did. Probably a chunk of carbon or a piece of weld slag etc.

Or an apex seal.

Too small.

Besides, if it was anything like that, the thing wouldn't run well enough to drive it away.

It would probably have run fine on one rotor, but you'd certainly hear the difference and there would be a lot more flames from the hot, un-burned fuel hitting the atmosphere.

jstein77 wrote:

Curmudgeon wrote:

Duke wrote:

Curmudgeon wrote: Yeah, sure did. Probably a chunk of carbon or a piece of weld slag etc.

Or an apex seal.

Too small.

Besides, if it was anything like that, the thing wouldn't run well enough to drive it away.

Slanderous lies!

I must have one. Can we get these in the states?

"hotlinked for awesome!"

I thought that this event was neat, until I a) found that they're looking to make burnout competitions a legit sport, and b) saw this.

Freaking awesome. When's the GRM road trip? Can we hire Aussie and Luke for tour guides?

Another reason to love Australia, this V8 Subaru Brat came up in the related videos. Something good must be in the water down there.

Making tiny cars do burnouts is easy. Now try making one go fast and turn hard!!!

Bryce

This makes me want to get working on my 67 Lemans. 500 hp LSx, T56, and oodles of cam overlap.

Idle like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii32Qx7_oVg