I think it is 360+. Ito has posted it many a times on here and on vintagerotaries.com



And I think he can drive it on the street also.

And these V8's are all motor correct? With no NOS, Turbo, Supercharger?

yes all motor. no not street driven and neither is padillas.



the two i'm thinking of right now are running a serious port on the heads, with farkin huge valves and almost 15:1 compression. the one I know the most about runs speral flow mufflers for back pressure. the car is a 89 comaro. many body mods. rear end is for 9" with moser axels and 4:11 gears.



it pickes the front wheels off the ground. no nos, no forced induction. not even ram air.

fyi jesus is in the 9's now. 9.92 orsomething. And his car pics the front tires off the ground. And his car still weights 2100 lbs so you can't say it's all power to weight. Because most drag cars in the 9's are tube frame.



I would hope that more than 3 times the displacement would be able to make more power.

I would hope you wouldn't compare displacement from a piston engine to a rotary...using that logic Honda sucks at hp/liter too..



hp/pound is all that matters.

in ls1tech they have a couple of 3200 pound, optioned, t-top having 9 second all motor cars. those are F_BODIES.



take 500 lbs off that and wonder what you run.



ls1 rx-7s (FC) have gone low low 12s second runs without engine modifications, just some drag radials. And they have hit 9s with the STOCK FC rear end too.



9 second cars..., without forced induction passing emissions while gettin 19mpg on the highway.



the TITAN supra uses a CHEVY th-400 automatic..the same that came STANDARD in Chevelles and the like. that settles it for autos.



they have 10 second stock internal cars WITH A RACEWEIGHT OF 3400lbs. put a 2800lb car there and...

how do you know how much money he put into it?

not to start an arguement or anything, but the v8 is pretty much stock. a stock engine is much more reliable than a modified engine. a modified 1 rotor would be a lot less reliable than the v8 in that car. So I still don't see how it would cost less?



but in the end...to each his own

well then why do you think the rotary is label as such an effecient engine?? Not gas wise but powerwise. The same reason that adding a turbo adds effeciency. More power less displacement.



Using your typical math, losing 100 lbs will remove a tenth from your quarter.



500 lbs = half second



If you use that calculation (which many people do) you could add 1000 lbs to jesus's car and it'd still be a 10 second car.



I don't see what your arguing anyways? Are you trying to say that rotaries can't make power?



Do the math, a 4 rotor motor would make more power than a 2 rotor motor. So why do you argue that a v8 shouldn't make more power than a rotary.



And who mentioned reliability? This is drag racing, some of these people rebuild their motor after 4 pulls. Top fuel cars install a new clutch and hard telling what else every single pass. Drag racing isn't a reliability sport.

when it comes to making a power a 350 chevy is much better than a rotary.



endo of story.



if you spend 3k on a 350 and 3k on a 13b which one is going to be more powerful? the 350. by FAR.



for a weekend racer the v8 setup is much better because it will go many more runs than a rotary with the same power. there are assloads of v8's that run 400+ hp on pump gas, and many that are daily driven, and go 100k miles before rebuild. try that with your 13b.



not that I don't like the rotary, but if I was a drag racing fanatic on a budget, v8 is the way I would go to. but I'm not a drag racer, I like my rotary, so I'm gonna stick with it. but in my 65 mustang, the 302 that I'm dropping in is going to make more power and more torque than my rotary, and do it much more reliably.

we should file this in the "beat to death" folder