You have GOT to be kidding me

[Steve C]

bloody hell that dude needs theraphy

Did somebody call?

[Snaphappy]

Rotary engine designed by some German ****el

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












http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_****el

[Lumiya]

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.



Kymmy

[Steve C]

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.



Kymmy

Won't it be great when they finally get them to deliver on the promise they show on paper

[Chad]

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

[VTwin]

Here's a couple of Radials!

[Dilbert]

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

[Lumiya]

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

Kymmy

[Dilbert]

Ahhh, right, so I was nearly right

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

[j]

and people say the Bemmer Boxer is ugly