COMPANY WEBSITE WITH DATA:
https://www.aieuk.com/40acs-5-bhp-wankel-rotary-engine/
COMPANY WEBSITE WITH DATA:
https://www.aieuk.com/40acs-5-bhp-wankel-rotary-engine/
PING!................
If it’ll start, I want one for my chain saw! :-)
Can they make a wankel to run on vegetable oil and/or biodiesel?...could be interesting.
Looks like my hydraulics based powered armor now has power sources.
Loved my Rx-3 12a engine, made a great race car.
Does that come with a 400hp Wankel?
Everything old is new again.
When I was a kid I got to ride in a car with a Wankel engine.
And that was many, many decades ago.
Great. Now solve the short seal life problem.
Interesting - I remember back when they started looking at them - I believe the original design was called a Tri-Dyne - then they showed up in race cars and could really whine out - but low torque at low end made them tough to get rolling w/o some extra wear and tear on the clutch. Never was in one of the rotary engine cars, so I can’t slam or praise them.
I remember when Mazda made small trucks and cars with the “Wankel Engine” yet they never called it the Wankel.
Still remember the Mazda jingle.”Piston engine goes ping ping ping but the Mazda goes ‘M-m-m-m-m’”.
The main thing that killed the earlier versions of the Wankel was the lip seals on the rotors failed and they began burning a significant amount of oil. I wonder if that issue has been resolved?
tiny wankels will only cause blindness
I wonder if they have solved the rotor tip and side seal problems that ultimately caused the Mazda Wankel to be discontinued.
Liquid Piston (https://www.liquidpiston.com/) claims to have solved that problem by moving the seals FRom the rotor to the housing in their “non-Wankel” rotary engine.