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As far as I'm concerned the only good rotary is a turbocharged rotary. I don't know much about these reed-valved renesis engines though or if it has any adverse effects when attempting to turbo-charge it. If you want to know about turbocharging a rotary, talk to the local puerto-ricans. The rotary is their favorite motor.
As far as rotaries being finicky with boost, it's not true. These engines love boost. What they don't like is heat and the fact that they fire on every 'crank' revolution versus every other like a piston engine, they create twice as much heat. They also retain a lot of that heat due to the mass of the rotor and the inability to get heat out of the engine. Rotaries are more like a 2 stroke engine but since they don't have gas and oil constantly rushing by all the moving parts, they also don't have that cooling benifit. If you can keep the engine cool, you can boost them to oblivion.
The only things that fail on a rotary are the apex seals unless, of course, you deprive the engine of oil you'll spin a bearing just like every other engine but that's not my point. The apex seal is the rotaries equivalent to a compression ring. Dismantling a rotary engine to replace them is easier than doing just about ANYTHING on a piston motor. There's nothing to a rotary. There's even less parts than a 2-stroke piston motor. They just intimidate people because America was raised on piston engines.
I love the rotary engine, I've always been fascinated by it's simplicity and it's love for boost. They actually run better with boost than without. Their small disadvantages are far outweighed by their advantages and if you're a tuner the disadvantages become advantages.
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