Check out the current issue of

Some guy cut grooves in piston heads that creates more turbulence. This has helped engine efficiencies by as much as 20%.



I wonder if cutting grooves on rotor faces might have a similar effect.



Here is the article:

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/futurec...679464,00.html

 

give it a try... let me know how it goes.

 

Looks like more places for hotspots and carbon on a turbo rotary rotor. And there is still plenty of flat area on the side housings/ rotor housings for fuel to condense on.

I would rather have direct injection at the compression stroke/side to instantly vaporize fuel on a rotary. I'd glady ditch my trailing plugs for that...

 

lol now come on. I wonder if this really does work. But I wonder if it has different effects on a turbocharged vehicle.

 

Well, I'm not going to volunteer myself for the guinea pig trial this time.

Someone else should do it.

 

i read that article too and was wonderin the same thing about rotaries.

 

Not really applicable to rotaries. The idea is basicially to expose squish pads to the flame front from ignition. There's not really any equivalent thing going on with a wankel. The only possible area where it would help out would be on a series of grooves leading to the trailing apex and the situation's different enough I don't think the concept would apply.

 

I think this was the guy that invented the anti detonation device.... :P

 

I have several rotors I'll donate... they even come with giant apex seal gashes in them... I mean "grooves"

 

Yea, I have some that are already "grooved"...they are sitting on the floor in my garage . Let me know if someone wants to try it in thier engine!!!

hehe

STEPHEN

 

Now you're talkin'!

 

Or if we could get some one to make us some direct injection type injectors with replaceable sparkplug electrodes/grounds on them. Then we could put it in the Leading position where it would really rock and we could run real lean at cruise. How to get a 3 or 4 rotor to get decent highway mileage...