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    Re: You have GOT to be kidding me

    Quote Originally Posted by Chad View Post
    bloody hell that dude needs theraphy
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    Re: You have GOT to be kidding me

    Rotary engine designed by some German ****el

    ah come on thats not swearing
    his name is spelt W A N K E L












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    Re: You have GOT to be kidding me

    Rotary (Rotax, W@nkel) engines are totally different from Radials. Quite a few production vehicles have had rotary engines in them and include

    Mazda RX7
    Mazda RX8
    Norton Commander
    Suzuki RE5

    as well as being now very popular in small aircraft, microlites.



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    Re: You have GOT to be kidding me

    Quote Originally Posted by Kymmy View Post
    Rotary (Rotax, W@nkel) engines are totally different from Radials. Quite a few production vehicles have had rotary engines in them and include

    Mazda RX7
    Mazda RX8
    Norton Commander
    Suzuki RE5

    as well as being now very popular in small aircraft, microlites.



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    Re: You have GOT to be kidding me

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve C View Post
    Won't it be great when they finally get them to deliver on the promise they show on paper
    they do but burn a **** load of oil in the proccess

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    Re: You have GOT to be kidding me

    Here's a couple of Radials!





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    Re: You have GOT to be kidding me

    Correct me if I'm wrong (and somebody usually thinks I am) but if you have lots of even numbered cylinders don't they work "sympathetically" as in a V6 or V12 i.e. more than one on the same stroke at the same time rather than "progressively" i.e. one after t'other like Kymmy's 5 cylinder pic, for a rotary this would then require an offset crank effectively splitting it into two engines?

    The timing for an 8 or more rotary would be hellish if they were progressive or is that why they seem to be rev limited

    One thing for certain they look fricken wierd on a bike

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    Re: You have GOT to be kidding me

    With odd numbers you always have a single cylinder starting a power stroke at any one time making the power delivery even and smooth. You can though get even numbers but they tend to be layered radials with more than one planes of cylinders. I presume though not sure that the 2nd row would be half a phase out to continue the one cylinder starting a power stroke scenario.

    Also radials and rotary engines tend not to be rev limited but more power limited hence they're sometimes known as screamers

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    Re: You have GOT to be kidding me

    Ahhh, right, so I was nearly right

    and now you do realise someone is going to post saying they thought "screamers" meant something else

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    Re: You have GOT to be kidding me

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