I lol'd

Boat anchor on the ground?

^

I wouldn't mind rotaries if they didn't have that 'note' from the exhaust....

and the fact that every one I know who has one is forever reaching into their pockets to fix them

Sean, i dont wanna know you anymore


Kirk, yes , pockets must be deep, but f*** me sidways, i would love a rotor


soooooo PORN!

deep pockets are fine - provided your arms can reach the bottom of them

yeah, i have shallow pockets and long arms


BRAP BRAP BRAP BRAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

Imagine though if other companies invested the time/money to develop the rotary engine...
It think its lack of support was a loss to us rev-heads in general. 6 moving parts, far more efficient in a smaller package.

yeah i totaly agree Syd-monster, look how far mazda have taken it, imagine if all the car companys were developing them!

Meh let me know when theres a diesel version

there is diesel versions
"In Britain, in the 1960s, Rolls Royce Motor Car Division at Crewe, Cheshire, pioneered a two-stage diesel version of the Wankel engine."

i beleive mazda have had them running on diesel before too

http://www.der-wankelmotor.de/Motoren/Roll...olls-royce.html

im pretty sure that no other companies have developed is because mazda has the rights to the wankel engine, and nobody else is allowed to use it

not true, Mazda own a licence to build them, GM had one at one point, NSU produced a rotary car, in the 60s there were quite a few companys with licences to produce them and developing them (licenced from Felix Wankel)

Norton had a motorbike with one in it. there were some other vehicals using them too.

yeah i know that GM were developing a quad rotor Corvette, and they traded with Mazda for info... hence the HJ kingswood with a rotary in Japan

the Kingswood (roadpacer) had nothing to do with that part.

Mazda wanted a large luxury car so thats why they went to the prem

GM were developing a Rotor from 1970 to 74, the roadpacer didnt come out till 75, after GM had given up. there was no colaboration between the two except for GM looking at mazda rotarys and trying to copy them cause they were superior

the corvette was going to be a 266ci 2 rotor. (180hp), then they put 2 motors in tandem and that was the quad rotor.
but yeah, didnt go anywhere

If it ain't a rotor
it ain't a motor.

I LOVE THEM

real motors go round and round
wankers motors go up and down!!!

i did own a RX-7 series 6.
triple rotor (20B) twin turbo.
went off its head!!!!!!!!!

sound did get annoying at times but was HEAPS of fun to drive

munch munch pistons for lunch

A mate has one of those little old Mazda 1300 that weigh next to nothing, and put a 20B N/A rotor engine. This thing lifts the front wheels off the ground at take off and stays up there for a dam long time too. He bought the shell for 2K, got the 20B of his bro for free and spent a further 10K on it. Someone offered him a Supra with 350rwkw, refused that, and another offered him a VL commodore V8 supercharged that made over 400rwkw or something - refused that too. He said he wouldn't trade it in for a Ferrari.