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Originally posted by russotto
The RX/7 13B twin turbo would probably be the highest performance engine ever sold in America, with an astonishing 194 hp/l (255hp @ 1300cc). Yet while it is a high perfomance engine, it's not considered astoundingly superior to anything else out there.
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You would compare a rotary engine to a piston engine? Why not just compare a ramjet with an electric motor. To make your point, you must compare a wankel to a wankel. You compared apples to oranges AND provides no science facts to support your claim.
Hp / liter measures performance. Some would falsely claim that a bigger engine is high performance engine because they are victims of 'feeling' rather than 'thinking'? The current Liza Thomas Laury 'feeling' of high performance was generated by Madison Ave propaganda - to coverup that America in and after the 1970s made NO high performance auto engines. Horsepower per liter is an accurate performance measurement for similar engines.
Those lower performance engines also are machined to much poorer tolerances - of course. They are, for example, the 1960s technology engines that are still so popular in low performance, overhyped GM products.