205 Rally Beast With A Wankel Engine

[SkyQuake 70 1 Cars]

The topic of rally cars was bounced around at work today, and a name was thrown out of a chap who has a reputation for putting unusual engines in his rally prepared 205, Vincent Foucart.

 

Did a little googling and it turns out he's built an utterly nutty Group B 205 with a triple rotor Wankel engine in it! Couldn't find any reference to it on here, so I thought I'd post it up!

 

 

There's a couple of good youtube videos here and here. The thing sounds fantastic!

 

Cheers,

 

Mike

[allye 530 3 Cars]

Who doesn't love a good wankle, saw this on Facebook yesterday, fantastic thing.

[Batfink 201]

I think I prefered the BMW engine but this must be so much lighter!

[welshpug 1,657]

I think his W16 was more of a technical masterpiece, 4x cbr 600 heads and blocks mated together!!

 

Foucart has been mentioned on here a few times.

 

http://forum.205gtidrivers.com/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=search&fromMainBar=1

[GLPoomobile 958]

Ooooo, I love a good bit of 20b action!

[Rippthrough 98]

I think his W16 was more of a technical masterpiece, 4x cbr 600 heads and blocks mated together!!

 

Foucart has been mentioned on here a few times.

 

http://forum.205gtidrivers.com/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=search&fromMainBar=1

The V16 was fun too.

Also has some of those funny wonky brake discs, not sure where they came from

 

 

New engine next year, back to Honda's.

Edited October 7, 2015 by Rippthrough

[Henry 1.9GTi 36]

awesome

 

the only bit of 205 I recognise is the door though

[Rippthrough 98]

Front end and arches are 306, he does have another car with the 205 front end on.

[Rippthrough 98]

It's hidden there but there's actually a rather large sliding variable-length trumpet setup under the carbon inlet, that's why that 'airbox' portion is so large. The inlet is about half again that length at low rpms.

There's a second set of stand-off injectors spraying into the bellmouths too.

Edited October 7, 2015 by Rippthrough

[Rippthrough 98]

It's been a tad slippy in France this year. (205 about halfway through):

[DanteICE 72]

I've always wondered about 4 wheel drive rotary engined cars because they're not the best of engines for torque and I'd have thought that would have been preferential in off road rally stuff, even their RX7 group B entry was RWD.

 

Does anyone have any more information about the drivetrain or even more photos? The variable length intakes must be an idea straight from the 787B Le Mans Car , I'm guessing it's also peripheral port?

 

He's not the first triple rotor rally car I've seen though, but I am waiting for the quad rotor rally car

 

Geoff

[Rippthrough 98]

I've got a photo of them somewhere but where is another matter.
Rotaries make plenty of torque over a broad range, they make great rally engines. The 'lack of torque' stuff is more from the unwashed public who expect a turbo kick.

As for drivetrain, Sadev sequential up front, billet diffs front and rear based on 7-series cores.

Edited December 30, 2015 by Rippthrough

[Edp 67 3 Cars]

My brothers brother in law races against this in rally's in France and I've seen it in the flesh. It sounds even better when you're about 10ft from it.

 

This is the brother in laws car

 

 

Edited January 7, 2016 by Edp

[Rippthrough 98]

So you're the poor bugger who has to put up with Boncy then?

[kyepan 291]

that's amazing, he does some amazing things that chap!

[Rippthrough 98]

Had to share this one - little bit sideways anyone?

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4eh8ae

Oh, he's back with the 2L V16 in that again.

Edited June 11, 2016 by Rippthrough

[SkyQuake 70 1 Cars]

That's totally awesome. The noise it makes; it's more like an R/C car!

[Rippthrough 98]

ARISE FROM THE DEAD, SIR THREAD!

Anyway....Foucart is at Goodwood this weekend if anyone is going, head for the Off Road Arena

[Simes 248 2 Cars]

Rally stage or halfway up?

[Rippthrough 98]

The off road field, with the ultra 4's and Safari cars, not the rally stage (athough that would be fun )

[RossD 44]

Yep, saw this parked up at FoS, but didn't see it in action unfortunately

[Rippthrough 98]

About 10 minutes in.

[nomis 12]

Just had this sent to me in a Goodwood email. I made it to festival of Speed but didn't see this in action.

Here's a video of just the rotary-engined 205 rally car beeng hooned about by Foucalt.

 

https://www.goodwood.com/grrc/event-coverage/festival-of-speed/2017/7/video-ear-splitting-rotary-engined-peugeot-205-rips-up-fos/