Knock detection on a rotary engine

[Seth Bibler]

On Tuesday, September 23, 1997 2:28 PM, marchildon at colba.net 
[SMTP:marchildon at colba.net] wrote:
>
> With the talk of rebuilding rotary engines and installing a EFI on one of
> them.
>
> Brings up a question, does a rotary knock like a piston engine?
>
> I have a GSL-SE with a Vortech supercharger set at 7psi, that is now
> controlled by a SDS EFI (The 332 is not ready yet), with the sound coming
> from my 2.5" exhaust and from the gears in the supercharger i would be 
hard
> pressed to hear any thing abnormal coming from my engine.
>
>
> // marchildon at usa.net                                            //
> // Alain Marchildon                                              //

The turbo models have a knock sensor, and the engine works better with 
higher octane fuel...  I don't know how it compares to the knock sensors on 
piston engines.  Try the RX-7 list (rx7 at world.std.com).

Later,

Seth Bibler
chameleo at europa.com