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Home-Built 12-Rotor Wankel Engine Is The Definition Of Crazy

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If you like video content that comes with the words Wankel, rotor, and rotary, Rob Dahm is probably one of the YouTubers you should follow. The man just loves his rotary, to the point that he’s built a 4-rotor Wankel engine before and shoehorned it into, well, you’ve guessed it, a Mazda RX-7.

While the 4-rotor AWD, Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk-beating RX-7 build was already crazy, to begin with, Dahm has just received something even crazier. We’re talking about a 12-rotor Wankel engine, given to Dahm by a man named Tyson Garvin.

The engine displaces 15.7 liters but is enclosed in a big block the size of a Chevy V8. It’s relatively compact in terms of actual size, and that’s thanks to the power plant’s Y configuration consisting of three, four-rotor banks. 

What’s even more bonkers is that Garvin built this engine at home. As someone in the video’s comments section has perfectly put it, Garvin is the type of person who answers “Why not?” when someone asks “Why?”

Of note, Garvin’s 12-rotor engine is probably the most number of rotors we’ve seen in a rotary engine. Dahm has shown a 6-rotor example at the start of the video, while running examples of the 4-rotor mill was Garvin’s and the Mazda 787B that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1991.

Mazda’s New Rotary:

A bit of history about this engine: Garvin is really into speedboats. According to him, the idea of making this monster of a powerplant was born when he got tired of big block Chevy V8s that “break for the fun of it.”

Although the teardown video above doesn’t really show the 12-rotor engine being started or even fitted into a car (that’s for another episode), Garvin said that his creation can rev up to 10,000 rpm and can produce up to 800 pound-feet of torque at 2,000 rpm. Previous reports show that it can produce up to 1,400 horsepower but can obviously do more with race fuel and turbocharging involved. 

If you’re curious how this 12-rotor Wankel sounds, here’s a video from nine years ago while it was being tested on the dyno:

Walmart’s ‘Employee Of The Week’ Post Goes Viral With 51K Reactions As People Start Praising The Worker With Hilarious Made-Up Stories

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Andy Warhol once said: “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,” and only now, when that very future has already arrived, do we understand how right he was. Social networks can literally lift any of us to the top of popularity in the blink of an eye, and easily overthrow anybody from there. However, much more entertaining in this case is the completely random nature of such takeoffs.

Take Walmart, for example, which, according to their official website, operates more than 10.5K stores worldwide and employs around 2.1M people, 1.6M of whom are in the U.S. What is the probability that one of these people will suddenly become an internet star – even if only for a short time? And yet, this possibility exists, and sometimes it works out.

Walmart in Grundy, Virginia recently gave a shout-out to a woman named Alley as a new Employee of the Week

Image credits: Walmart Grundy

People in the comments started massively praising Alley with some made-up stories about her incredible skills and service level

Image credits: Walmart Grundy

Image credits: Mike Mozart

According to some of the commenters, Alley is no less than Mother Nature in disguise and folks suggest just renaming the store to Alleymart

Image credits: frankieleon (not the actual photo)

Image credits: Jennifer Gentner (not the actual photo)

By the way, it’s not the first time people have come up with fictional glorifying stories about Walmart employees – five years ago the fame fell on Sam from Illinois

A few years ago, Walmart in Streator, Illinois named its cashier Sam Reynolds their Employee of the Week on Facebook, and for some reason, people in the comments began to actively tell completely non-existent stories about Sam’s incredible virtues and skills, and how her brilliant service helped them in the most difficult and confusing everyday situations, not only in the store, but outside it as well.

Bored Panda has told that story before, and we admired the ingenuity with which netizens came up with more and more ways to praise this woman, making her a real superhero. At the time, a few years ago, she was absolutely surprised by the glory that fell on her out of the blue. “This happened for no reason,” Reynolds told in an interview to Shaw Local. “I don’t even know how to feel. I guess it’s cool. I don’t have time for all the comments.”

And so, years passed, numerous Walmart stores identified literally tens of thousands of new Employees of the Week – and suddenly fame fell on another woman. This time it was a Walmart store employee in Grundy, Virginia named Alley. She received her award on April 4th and as of today, the post has over 51K reactions, 38K shares and more than 47K comments where people got into a true battle of wits, praising Alley as much as they could.

So, according to some folks in the comments, Alley stopped a customer from picking up a hand saw from the wrong end, saved a kid from being run over by a shopping cart, helped with emergent health issues and even taught them how to make tea. Moreover, people even presume that the woman is Mother Nature in disguise and suggest renaming Walmart to Alleymart altogether.

Perhaps Walmart’s SMM team will take advantage of this brilliant idea and at least rename their social media pages for a while, but for now, Alley is probably the main star of the whole chain. For example, when the same Walmart Grundy spoke about Brian from the bakery/deli department, noting his awesome customer service, commenters wrote that the guy should actually feel honored to be a co-worker of Alley.

In the end, we are all damn lucky to live in the same era and on the same planet with Alley, so just feel the significance of this moment and also feel free to write your own words of appreciation towards this incredible ordinary woman in the comments here. After all, as Andy Warhol also said, “I think everybody should be nice to everybody.”

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Pol Espargaro: “Finally I can smile and talk” | MotoGP™

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Pol Espargaro: “Finally I can smile and talk”

The injured GASGAS Tech3 star has posted a positive update on his condition as he looks forward to returning as soon as possible

It’s a message that will be music to the ears of millions of MotoGP™ fans around the world. Pol Espargaro (GASGAS Factory Racing Tech3) has taken to social media to give everyone an update on where he is in his recovery after his huge Portuguese Grand Prix crash.

Espargaro has been sidelined since the Friday afternoon crash in Portimao. A broken jaw has meant the #44 rider has been unable to speak or eat properly for over a month, while several other fractures are now also thankfully on the mend.

“Hi everyone! Finally I’m back on social media. It’s been a month and week after the crash and I can talk a little bit, I’m saying that because I broke my jaw in two places, I’ve been with my jaw completely closed for four weeks after the crash, I couldn’t eat, I lost a lot of weight, but finally I can smile and I can talk quite good so that’s why I making this message,” began the Spaniard.

“Also I had an injury in my ear that had surgery after the crash, I had eight fractures in my body, two in my ribs, one in my neck, three in my back which I think are taking a little bit longer because the fractures in my back are the ones the doctors are still checking a little bit deeply. One is better but I’ve lost half of the size.

“So you know what happens when you play with these kind of injuries, in the vertebrae you need to be really careful because it’s super easy to injure your spinal cord, so we are working with the doctors hand by hand to come back as soon as possible, but first of all I need to come back healthy, but I’m the first one that wants to jump on the bike. Especially after the results in Jerez, the factory is working huge and the bike is a rocket right now so I’m looking forward to it.

“I just wanted to say thank you for all the messages you have sent me through that time, it has been so important to keep me motivated, and to keep me happy to come back as soon as possible and jump on my bike. Thanks to my team and all the people who are with me when I am racing because they have sent me messages almost every day and this is amazing from the GASGAS and the KTM guys.

“I don’t know when I’ll jump back on the bike honestly, I’m just going to keep you a little bit more updated than the last month and a half so yeah, thanks for all the messages, I love you so much.”

It’s fantastic to see Espargaro smiling and to hear how excited he is to return to action. We can’t wait to see him back racing!