The Corvette Z06's handling scared Car and Driver!

[masraum]

good info, thanks. Always good to hear from those more educated than me.

[TerryBPP]

Originally posted by Jim Cesiro
Hehehe....He said Wankel...

FYI - Being a Rotorhead, most of your wankels do not go past 10,000 RPM unless you have lots of money or a death wish. Some crazy bridgeported motors will rev to 12-14K RPM's but them your buying special flywheels and clutch assemblies and that is big money. Not to mention havign the entire rotating assembly balanced. If you are not then you can risk the loss of your feet or life from failure due to vibration.

My Rev limiter is set to 9300 RPM and I have told to lower it by my engine builder. (Pettit Racing) I have been told 8700 RPM is plenty.

I use to go to the street races in Miami. There was a group of Dominican guys who had a Dastun 510 with a 13B rotary. Loudest car I have ever heard, ear peircing. Insanely fast (low 10's). Anyway, I heard a few weeks later they were out there and the flywheel let go and went thru the floorboard and out the front windsheild. Luckly the driver got away with just shrapnal and some stiches.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

I smell a market opportunity for Kevlar hoods and firewalls!

[masraum]

aren't scattershields mandatory once you are running faster than a certain time.

[kaisen]

He said Dominicans at a street race. No sanctioning body there, I'd guess. Too fast, too furious, too stupid for safety.

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[Jims5543]

Orlando Speed World 2003.

A guy with his Rotary car was screwing with it in the pits. He has N2O on it and did not disarm it. He decided he needed to rev the car into submission and hit the N2O in the process. The car revved to god knows what RPM and the flywheel shattered. Shrapnal split his skull and killed him instantly.

Most guys run scatter shields on their drag car no matter what E/T's they run.

Street racing is stupid. Those guys get what they deserve, hopefully they are not killing innocents in the process.