Palmdales elevation is higher and I have raced at both Palmdale LACR and Pomona. The correction for Palmdale's times is no more than .6 of a second. Your 15.98 in Palmdale corrected to sea level would be more like a 15.3. I am sure that other racers up at Palmdale will confirm this elevation correction.
On my turbo car I noticed that I needed to crank up the boost to post better times while at LACR. While at Pomona I could run lower boost.
I know that, if you read my top post, my new time is 15.38 at Palmdale. So with a .6 correction, I ran a 14.78 (give or take a few tenths) at sea level (Pomona). That time is high 14 like I said before.
Did your limiter cut you off at that point, or did you still have more left? I'm going to be taking a trip this weekend and I know my S will do at least 120mph. I'd estimate about 126-128mph? Do you know the formula to determine the speed based on rpms with the stock gears?
lol, good luck on gas at that speed. I drove home (phx) from sedona (90-100 miles away) at around 95-100MPH and I got about 17-18MPG. It was fun though.
Actually, I've seen plenty of 13B motors turn over 10k and some as high as 12k and heard of some that go 13k with a bridge port. Tri-point engineering in Canoga Park Calif., has put together some sweet rotary engines. Remember, NO-CAM in a rotary engine. Only 3 recipricating parts. The crankshaft and the two rotors. Check this out 3-rotar beaut: http://www.pettitracing.com/sections/Banzai.html
It's a totally different ball game vs. a piston engine. It's 'possilby' the smoothest running engine you can stick in a car. RX7's use 'em. A lot of other cars as well, but I won't get into it so much on this thread, as it's not a Mazda BB. If you're interested though, check this: http://www.howstuffworks.com/rotary-engine.htm .
MC
I don't know if you guys read last year Road & Track article on "Kings of the Drag Strip".. but Rod Millans Pike's Peek Tacoma did 9 seconds on the strip.. his first time ever drag racing with off road tires... better yet it was a 4 cyl 2.1L turbo charged AWD... now that is BAD ASS
visit here: <a href="http://www.rodmillen.com">http://www.rodmillen.com</a href>
Now that's a spoiler I would like to have!!!
Rotary's aren't all that...they do rev to the moon but they have to push alot of rpm's to get good power and torque..in high horsepower rotary engines there not very reliable you see alot of em in glamis blowing up on the hill or having problems,and getting smoked by suburu 4 cyl turbo's....an s2000 has a piston moter that pushes 10k ...not many other's can do that ..
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