May be a stupid question was wondering can you over rev a rotary, and is reving a rotary bad.

 

Yes, you can over-rev a rotary. You won't have rods warping or valves dropping (obviously), but the assembly is only balanced so well. Also fuel & spark delivery and turbo efficiency may suffer with potential catastrophic issues.

 

this thread is

 

i try to tach mine to about 18k once a week, blow the carbon out.

 

wow, i'm kinda speechless.

 

I say 30k RPM before anything goes wrong. Rotary just spins and spins. If you go over 40k, you can hit warp speed, in 5th gear.

thewird

 

depends on your flux capacitor set up.

what's your 0-to-warp?

 

look what happened to micky when i revved my to 20k

 

You can't overrev a rotary with the throttle. The rev limiter is robust and the engine doesn't care how much you rev it all the way up to redline.

It's possible to overrev it by downshifting with the car moving. The few times I've seen it happen it had no damage, but there is certainly a limit.

Dave

 

A girl driving my car went from redline 3rd strait into 2nd, hit 14krpm or so..No damage or probs....Felt like hitting the Breaks HARD.

 

oh i think i know her - she has an rx-8 right?

 

Any engine or motor can be damaged or destroyed by over revving. Most companies use rev limiters to prevent it from happening.

 

to answer your question NO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsKjjhib0o

 

Haha, no.

 

Wow, what tach do you have that shows 14k?

Did you BRAKE anything when it felt like you hit the BREAKS ?

 

Haha dude i watch this vid every time i get on youtube. It just makes me happy inside.

 

 

Damn you all are harsh...

 

lol of course u can over rev

 

My god sorry i asked. I know theirs a limit.

 

Sorry, that was the lounge coming out. lol

 

u guys are ghey soemtimes lol

one thing that can happen when you over rev from a money shift .. you can cause the rotor gears to start to float away unevenly within the rotor and that may cause your rotor gear teeth to shatter ( goodbye entire lubrication system .. cooler .. turos .. etc ) rotor to smash around the housings and iron .. so ... you can destroy everything ... with a proper money shift over rev

however .. when you rev it with a proper rev limite .. ~ 8.5 K or so ... and you have good bearings , proper lubrication and cooling... no problem

 

Thanks David answer i was looking for.

 

Hey man we all just kid dont take stuff so serious.

 

theorie that last pic was funny