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Old 12-09-03, 10:52 PM
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you can over rev the rotarys like when you are racing but if you do it to often it will be like putting several 1000 miles on you car in just a couple seconds
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^^^

the things you have to worry about when reving that high is the rotor/housing clearance and the flywheel breaking apart. the higher you rev, the more the rotor/eccentric shaft flex, thats why they take off some material from the inside of the housings so the rotors have clearance to spin up to 10k rpm+ on full race motors and the like.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by BLKTOPTRVL
[B]I wonder why someone would do that...


The engine was already blown and it had overheated many times in the past so they figured there probably wasn't any usable parts....so I guess why not!!!
Old 12-10-03, 12:37 AM
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my friend got a FD, he was crusing at 5th and there was some ricer wanted to race him he tried to drop into 3rd gear but he mis-shift it into 1st, the engine is gone,
yes, rotary are more rpm friendly, but stock internal are not designed to be rev like that
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Originally posted by red_ricer
you can over rev the rotarys like when you are racing but if you do it to often it will be like putting several 1000 miles on you car in just a couple seconds



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Old 12-10-03, 01:03 AM
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Originally posted by sub9lulu
my friend got a FD, he was crusing at 5th and there was some ricer wanted to race him he tried to drop into 3rd gear but he mis-shift it into 1st, the engine is gone,
yes, rotary are more rpm friendly, but stock internal are not designed to be rev like that
How in bob's name did he manage to get it into first from fifth? Did he not notice the insane amount of resistance the stick was giving him as he forced it into gear?
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he must have a strong shiftin arm.....from doing other after school activities
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I wouldn't worry to much about it man, let me tell you a story (short). I was teaching my girlfriend how to drive my car, she has only driven large trucks with many gears on her dad's farm. We're going down a nice big wide open road in the middle of the night so she doesn't stall in front of anyone and we're doing about 65. So I tell her to try down shifting to get used to that and instead of 4th she hits 2nd and pops the clutch.... at 70MPH! Now I know that's not too fast but it should give you some idea not to worry since the only thing bad that happened was it stopped the car cause the wheels almost stopped turning. Nice skid marks though. Incidentally, I had to replace the tranny a couple months later I wouldn't worry too much about missing a gear unless it's like sub9 said up there ^^^ somewhere, don't miss while racing
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