While this is VERY good, the field is pretty crowded for best sounding engine in the world. I would submit the Honda 6 cylinder 250 GP bike from the sixties as a viable candidate.
@@dorath2237 If you do it right, they’re only expensive once. Contrary to popular belief, rotaries can actually be quite durable if built and tuned correctly. For example, during post-race tear down and inspection after the 787B won the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans, it was found that the engine was in perfect condition and could have gone straight out for another 24 hours.
@@misterbluehat Defined Autoworks is a specialty rotary engine garage about an hour north of me. The owner, Logan, has a 4 rotor Rx7 that has gained some notoriety - it’s actually the car Polyphany Digital samples for the sound for the 787B in the Gran Turismo video games when the real car is unavailable. That car has been raced AND street driven on a regular basis for something like 9 years now, and has only needed oil changes. It’s never had an engine problem, never needed to be torn down. It was done right once, done expensive once, and has never had problems, just like I said. So yes, I absolutely can make that comparison.
Lolll at 1:24 when the guy can't even finish saying "crazy!", as the sheer ludicrousness of the flyby is making him laugh. What an experience to see that car driving wide open.
That engine sounds as if its only limits for revving are purely down to its material property mechanical constraints. It revs so effortlessly. Phenominal sound.
Rotary engines cannot be broken by mechanical stress from revving too high. They don't have reciprocating parts. The only thing that keeps them from revving too high is excessive heat from friction. Also, running them at low revs will cause oil leaks to appear, so they're best suited for race cars, not so much for daily drivers
@@lLparsalso the seals are its biggest downside. They rotate on each chamber end and go through alot of friction, causing extra friction and stress on them, which can cause oil leaks into the combustion chambers.
Everybody says the GT-Rs sound the best, or the Supra sounds amazing, but this glorious fucking piece of 10500RPM revving machinery always gets forgotten.
To hear this at Le Mans........... You can hear EVERY gear change. It does not matter where you are on the circuit or if you were awake or asleep. YOU JUST HEARD IT.
They are wrong the sound came from this car and to hear from that engine its important and i want to say some people trust me are really stupid to thing the electric cars are future and much better the old car are have great sounds the electri cars the problem are the stupid regulation fuck those regulation its not car companies fault because of the stupid regulation and lots of people are really mad and angry to hear this
Podría estar horas escuchando esa dulce sinfonía que sale de ese hermoso motor rotativo y no me importaría quedarme con algo de sordera!!!😁 Que sana envidia tengo de esos japoneses!!!😉
@@mel_energy from the word video like were in YT i can use the word "seen" since its a video its for our eyes. Unless it's spotify sh*t the "heard" word is more relevant. anyways i like the sound of the mazda 787b.
@@mel_energy that's a myth perpetuated by the Internet. The 787B was actually a pretty rubbish race car in general. Outside of le mans 91 it never won another race, with it's next highest finish being 5th at the Nurburgring iirc. The car was also underweight for it's class (other C2 cars had to run ballast so they weighed at around 1000kg whereas the mazda ran at 830kg) because they'd basically convinced the FIA that they needed to not have the ballast since their car was underpowered (700bhp from the rotary compared to 850-900 for most other cars in it's class.) The 'banned because too fast' myth is another easily disproven thing. The FIA had basically said in 1989 "we're moving to a 3.5 litre piston formula in 1992" and that's why rotaries weren't allowed. Another reason why is because rotaries are difficult to work out their true displacement. The 87's engine was supposedly 2.6 litres but that was for only one face of the rotor. In reality with all three faces accounted for you're looking at closer to 7.8 litres of displacement
The nasty audio distortion in that particular take is similar to what it starts sounding in your ears when they are sufficiently damaged by overexposure.
Wankel had nothing to do with the modern design of the rotary (his had a rotating housing as well as a rotating rotor.) Also you shouldn't be since Wankel was a massive nazi