gavinjay

videos: http://www.revetec.com/website/video/03revhires.wmv

http://www.revetec.com/website/video/cceblown1.wmv

supposed to be hybrid/rotary http://www.revetec.com

imported_eth0r

what the hell is that thing? lol.. i see a s/c

gavinjay

its a new engine design....
seems fairly efficient.
i didnt really swap in in my car btw...but i think u already knew that.

punkindrublic

i've always thought it would be neat to put a rotary engine in a civic.... i mean it would be light... make huge power compared to honda engines... mating it to a fwd tranny would be damn tricky however....

gavinjay

gavinjay

gavinjay

its like a rotary engine, combined with a normal engine, plus its horizontally opposed.....

bbarbulo

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seems ghay now that hybrid/hydrogen cars are coming out... who the hell wants new gasoline technology?

imported_gatherer

maybe it'll work with hydrogen????

anyways I think it's interesting ... one of those things you sy hmmmmm interesting ...just before remembering bodily functions are more important and run away from the computer

gavinjay

those engines are EXTREEMYLY expensive and inefficient at this point......they need another 10 yrs or so

bbarbulo

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I think if we've done 100 years without it... only using piston and Wankel engines... I think we can make it for another 10 years using the same technology.

imported_gatherer

the technology is interesting but like bruno is saying practicality I don't see it happening ... although they seem to be ramping up production for some car manufacturer in China ... according to the site.

the down side to this engine is it's a piston engine and thereofre can't become as rev happy as the Wankel engine.... also the fact that it takes 3 cycles of the piston to create 1 rotation of the output shaft.... thats some funky gearing... maybe it'll have tons of torque with lower HP numbers ..... but hey a slow moving drive shaft does also have limitations..... mainly the super long tranny gearing to get any speed out of it... or look at a mac truck that revs to 3000 only that thing has 18 gears... could you see the next sports car with one of these engines being the first to have 10 gears?

also with this engine if it's spinning at 6000 rpm the pistons are going at 18000 RPM .... thats close to F1 engine speeds.... hmmmm I dunno about this technology