Rotary car videos Videos

one and done

+patw52pb1 little girl dont be angry the crew guy push the car to go faster

+james gee To piss off kids

A good shell would be ideal. Mostly cause it would cost less. Which yields more room for the build.

+TurboMitsubishi then get a 240sx with an ls3. If you must have an fc, don't do it to one that has a perfectly good 13b.find a rolling body

Then by all means, pony up the cash and go buy it when it comes out. Personally I'd love to have an FD3S....with an LS3.

+TurboMitsubishi thats why mazda is making another one right?

LMFAO

+Andrew Ginnis yes.. his intense stare, and he-man thumb and forefinger keep spectators and crew safe from errant burnouts..

+velr50gt Not really 1.3 though,scroll up to StL Chuk0s comment for a quick lesson. :)

Small displacement is pretty much useless without turbos though

+kenny morrow Unlike North American railcars used in rotary service, these ones obviously are not equipped with rotary couplers, necessitating the lengthy process of having to uncouple every single car. Rotary dumps tend to be used west of the Mississippi while traditional bottom-dump cars seem to be more favored in the East.

+deadboy600 - I was thinking the same thing.  And they aren't too quick on the turn around either.

+dus “dustoin1386” toin Note the connections shown at 6:20. Not setup to rotate all the way around and rotary connection wear and cost more.

+canvids1 Coal is 80 lbs per cubic foot, iron ore is 150 lbs per cubic foot, uranium ore is 190 lbs per cubic foot.If the car has a capacity of 100,000 lbs, then it can only handle 500 cubic feet of ore, hence the partial load. If it was coal, the car could possibly be fully loaded.

+Thomas Nixon Fuck off faggot! You foreigner loving bitch! I bet you like niggers too, you fucking scum

+RedArrow73 This is not Russia, is Ukraine. Or rather Yellow Waters. Uranium ore is unloaded.

Xenophobe. Look it up, idiot.

+SantaFe19484 Yes, it is. 12.26 U can see "Стій" (Stop)

+ctclark1 Very true. Coal fusing together and to the steel of the rail car itself can indeed be a very problematic issue with both rapid discharge hoppers and rotary dump gondolas, particularly when loads are exposed to moisture at temperatures above freezing, then subsequently to long periods of sub-freezing temperatures before much of the moisture has the chance to evaporate or sublimate. Both rotary dump and hopper cars each contribute their own set of unique challenges with frozen loads: As you indicated, with hoppers it is the discharge of the load itself that is often hampered. With rotary gons, it is often the consignee's post-discharge machinery (augers, hammer mills, conveyors, etc.) that takes what can be a damaging beating from large chunks of frozen coal that resists breaking apart upon discharge. This is why some have added pre-dump thaw sheds (a covered shed or canopy building with powerful electric heaters) that the cars pass through just prior to being dumped. The thaw shed simply becomes one of the steps in the overall dumping process during the Winter. Thaw sheds have been installed at a number of rotary dump and bottom dump installations.

Actually not faster in colder climates where the coal has a tendency to freeze and then clog the drop doors. This way anything that is frozen is broken loose upon flipping instead of having to manually climb around to break it apart. Also in this video they appear to be decoupling and recoupling each car individually as it enters the dumper, this probably would take considerably more time than rotating couplers which nearly every rotary dumper in the US uses nowadays.

Faster and More Efficient:YesCheaper:No 

+Jonathan kolher To bad they look ugly as fuck, they should start making a newer version of the Rx7

If you don't modify the shit out of them, yes, they will break faster. Almost every one of the stories you hear come from kids who riced the shit out of their RX7s. Aftermarket suppliers design hardware to fit your vehicle, where the Mazda factory engineers design all of the pieces to work together in harmony and still give you a warranty. If you hot rod a rotary engine, expect to have troubles. Not that I have a problem with anything that Rob or other folks do, but it's a simple fact that you are asking for trouble. Leave it alone and you'll be much better off. But that's boring. ;-)

+Rob Dahm I would have probably shit myself if you would have poured it out of a wine bottle labeled IDEMITSU.

such a minute detail few will appreciate hahaha

+Zack Lujan well excuse me if I don't check the mazda website every day to see what new news they have, and not all of this could be true (for example) a few years back Alfa Romeo and Mazda were creating a project? what happened to that? and if that does actually happen..... rotary engined Alfa Romeo confirmed? or will it go the say way that Alfa Romeo and Nissan went (//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_Arna ) 

+pianoman3214  You're clearly uninformed, incapable of searching, or an idiot. Mazda is a publicly traded company, whose current CEO (Masamichi Kogai) has only a light hand in what happens, as per the Board of Directors and other Corporate safeguards. Mazda (the company) has stated several times that they will continue development of the rotary engine (//www.mazda.com/stories/rotary/16x/ unveiled in 2007, //jalopnik.com/mazdas-new-ceo-has-no-plans-to-bring-the-rotary-engine-1467670527 final paragraph "please allow us to continue our research"). Further information about the resurrection of a rotary powered vehicle came out earlier this year with confirmation that Mazda is looking to pull the 1-2 like Toyota with the GT-86 and FT-1, and Nissan with the 370z and GT-R (//www.motoring.com.au/news/2014/sports/mazda/mazda-rotary-details-firm-46719). So, while there are no immediate plans (2015 model year) to release a rotary powered car from Mazda, there are plans, research, development, and ideas flying through Mazda constantly.For those of use who actually follow the automotive world, it's pretty easy to see how the Japanese automakers are competing closely. And as the world economy rebounds, they will tighten the gaps and keep it much more narrow in design, power, and offerings. That's why I say that when the FT-1 comes out that we will likely get a release commitment from Mazda about an RX car. And more to the point here... If you want to disregard the evidence that there COULD be another rotary powered car in the Mazda lineup in the relatively near future, that's fine. If you don't like rotaries, that's fine. If you don't want them to consider making more, that fine. I'm just providing this because you're calling me a liar. I choose to hope that the rumors coming FROM Mazda itself are true and that they can bring them back and make them better than ever. The tech is there for it to happen. It just takes time, money, and commitment. Mazda lacks the money to commit and the commitment to spend the money on something that may fail because, when compared to other household name manufacturers, they are pretty small.  

Mr Mazda (im assuming that's his name) has declined any development of the rotary engine

+pianoman3214.... not fake, but ok... Look it up. Mazda is still developing the rotary engine. Unfortunately, Ford took a lot of the R&D money with them. Last reasonable estimate was next year for a release (basically it should be around when the FT-1, NSX and new GT-R are ready.

its a fake you liar, all I need to do is click on that link, and the website already spams me with advertisments......

+Ross Williams well.............WE'RE WAITING!!!!. i doubt itll be out before 2017, considering its halfway through 2015 and we havnt seen a real concept yet. and i doubt they would call it the rx7, considering its the 9th experiment.

a 1.3l(1.3CC) rotary engine can achive a power of crazy 230 horsepowerengine that small can easily get to 8000rpmand they can last at redline for like 30 minutescrazy fast!!!

+Harvey Seno Haha yeah no problem bro

+NoPointOfThis123 ohh i thought its 20b twin turbo rotary, many people said its 20b twin turbo. anyways, thanks man :) lets build like mad mike's rx7

+Harvey Seno It's a 26B quad rotor. I would love to build one myself too, they sound amazing.

+Omega RED its because its hard to get compression in that systeme...the apex is what keep the compression and its what will likely fuck the engine up too

+Omega RED Lol yeah very true

+NoPointOfThis123 dayum no wonder no one likes rx8

+Omega RED Yeah rotaries typically require a lot more maintenance than a regular engine. (One of the reasons why they aren't around anymore)

+NoPointOfThis123 oh god. don't they get more damage than a regular compression engine?

+Omega RED Most go to 9K but I think the 4-rotor ones can go 10K or higher

+Mayhan Amin 20b engines sound a bit 6 cylinder sometimes depending whats done

+WheelSpin Straight-Shift that's interesting

+Mayhan Amin Often times, the Mazda 3 rotor engine sounds like a 2JZ its really weird

+Mayhan Amin 2j or rb probably