http://home.comcast.net/~ijcobra/pop.wmv

this was posted on a local forum to try and get a rise outta the few rx7s on there. to me it proves the robustness of the rotary

just curious who created the video tho

 

wow, that was an awesome video, i was expecting it to pop like the first gen doing like a ten min burnout

 

7 minutes @9K with no coolant cap...great vid!

 

lol, crazy people

 

a guy originally posted it on www.teamfc3s.org forums, under the video section, it should be still there if you wanna get in touch with the guy...

Daniel

 

wow that was ridiculous. I'm gonna show that video to anyone that says rotary's are shitty. I can't believe it stayed at 9 grand for that long when the temp gauge was off the charts

 

Yea... It was Brando1985 and CozmoRx7 over on teamfc3s that did it. Heres the link if anyone wants to read the thread.

http://www.teamfc3s.org/forum/showth...threadid=22093

 

Kinda Off topic: Yeah Amused, BMS are pretty stupid when they see or hear about rotaries because they never own/driven one. So they assume that its unreiable and will catch on fire. Rotary Haters! Now they are bashing 911GT because of his username and ect... pretty lame. Anyways, if u search this fourm the guy who did the video post about the vid at the lounge when the first thread about it appeared.

 

I am glad these guys were able to walk away from this dumb stunt. HAs anyone ever sen a flywheel rip loose at high rpm's. I saw a guy who lost both feet to that very explosion.

 

Also, note to self, don't by engine cores fom these guys....

 

LoL! That's awesome! Let's see a piston engine do that! I'd like to see pics of the engine apart if they've done that yet.

 

a friend of mine did that back in the day, the 12a went for 45 minutes before it got so hot it stopped

 

People like that don't deserve to have a car, especially and RX-7.

What a waste

 

moneys can buy a head of the neck

 

"Now me and the mad scientist will have to rip apart the block and replace those piston rings you fried!"

 

:ugh: It was a blown motor already...

 

Can any one say 'Darwin Awards'

Idiots...lucky idiots!

 

OMG!!! wow , that all i can say. i am awed that the only thing that stoped the engine was temperature. simply awazing. 4 mins at 9k+ rpm and the only thing to fail was the cooling sysyem. man does mazda know its &#iT or what! i guess those guys are petty lucky the didn't get seriously screwed up. and shame on them for wasting such a car but man, that was impresive. i have a new respect for rotaries (nat that i didnt already love them) thanks for the post

 

Yeah repost but in a cool way.

I loved how something under the car caught fire after because of the exhaust and they scrambled to put it out.

It had a blown rotor and they said they left the radiator cap off. If the cap was still on iot would have lasted a lot longer.

Although the huge cloud was awesome.
I also thought about the flywheel/clutch flying off.

I almost did somethingn like this to my GTU since it's running on one rotor but I want to give it to Jrat as a "usuable" core hehe

 

The engine was toast anyways. At least they're putting another rotary in it instead of a blasphemous V8.

 

Thats pretty neat that it lased that long. I really want to see the engine apart after this! Did anyone else notice, the engine sounded electronic?

 

it's not that it sounds like that, it's that the sound quality on the video is horrible

 

I thought that was cool as all hell! but I always thought the flywheels would blow apart after eight grand, makes me think more of my car (89 vert).

 

they had antoher motor in the garage waiting to be installed

 

If you read the thread from FC3S, it was in neutral, with the clutch pedal in the whole time, to prevent flying clutch discs and other UFO's.

The front rotor was alread blown, no radiator cap, and still ran for just shy of 7 mins at 9,000!!!! RPM. Simply awesome. Gotta love our engines. (They also said that the fresh rebuild was sitting in the garage, ready to go into the car.)

Chris- still proud of the rotary