Wankel powered double wishbone Lola Karts?
>must find and crowdfund. Real WAT racing league when?
http://bangshift.com/bangshiftapex/ebay-find-someone-is-selling-37-lola-506-go-karts-from-the-most-dangerous-and-insane-defunct-american-amusement-park-ever/
>>14072874
Forget the rotary: get the 250cc, inline four cylinder, DOHC four valve per cylinder engine from an early nineties Honda 250RR/MC22.
They scream to almost 20,000RPM and can make close to 50HP. It would make those littlr karts into miniature F1 cars basically.
Hear the engine here:
https://youtu.be/WblgkL1fsjo
>>14072964
>almost 200hp/l NA
how the fuck
>>14072977
The answer is Honda.
Back in 1966, Honda made the RC166, a 250cc, six cylinder, DOHC, four valve per cylinder engine that also revved to almost 20,000RPM and it made 62HP.
That is 210HP per liter engine, NA, in 1966.
http://petrolicious.com/honda-rc166
>>14073133
>Back in 1966, Honda made the RC166, a 250cc, six cylinder, DOHC, four valve per cylinder engine that also revved to almost 20,000RPM and it made 62HP.
>That is 210HP per liter engine, NA, in 1966.
What was their lifespan? Why doesn't anybody do that nowadays if it were any good?
>>14073133
hp/l is a bad metric since it obv favors smaller engines. modern kart engines are 125cc and make 50hp.
but the rc166 is a pretty good guy regardless
>>14073279
>fitness is a bad metric since it obv favors non-obese people
>>14073228
they're old GP bikes, they did mad mad things
>>14073279
>it obv favors smaller engines.
not really, it favours undersquare ones
>>14073298
I think you mean Oversquare.
Undersquare engines hate revving.
>>14073298
well yeah obviously, but kart engines arent undersquare yet they make obscene hp/l. a built KZ1 will make 400hp/l and its stroke is longer than it's bore.
the higher displacement the harder it is to make it efficient, unless it has like 16 cylinders.
>>14072977
Diminishing returns.
