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Apr 3, 2018 | 01:42 AM

7aull

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And you think MAZDA Rotor bits are $$

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mercedes-Be...0AAOSwxcRW-q9g

Bit of deutchland Unobtainium in the form of NOS Benz C111 proto-rotor housing and rotor. Yours for $14Large...
Now, if I can just track down the other 3 sets...

Stu Aull
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AZ

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Apr 3, 2018 | 05:36 AM

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Don't tell me your hoarding Mercedes Rotary parts now too?

Apr 3, 2018 | 07:19 AM

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Interesting. Not a lot of cooling in that prototype!

Apr 3, 2018 | 07:23 AM

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Interesting. Not a lot of cooling in that prototype!

Thats exactly my first thought when I saw it. Obviously, MAZDA got it right!

Apr 4, 2018 | 02:02 AM

7aull

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Don't tell me your hoarding Mercedes Rotary parts now too?

d-OH!
Chris, you see my Master Plan....
;D
________
Cooling. Or lack of. Yeah! how they kept 4 of these happy on the track is a mystery to me too. Cosmos were blitzing around at the time so its not like MB couldn't crack an L10 open and see How Its Done Right...

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Apr 4, 2018 | 05:39 AM

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Neat stuff Stu!! If only we could afford to hoard all of the neat Mercedes prototype stuff......I know I would lol!

Apr 4, 2018 | 08:01 AM

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Dave you'd hoard everything if you could! Then again... so would I lol

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Apr 4, 2018 | 09:34 AM

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Apr 5, 2018 | 01:28 AM

7aull

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Neat stuff Stu!! If only we could afford to hoard all of the neat Mercedes prototype stuff......I know I would lol!

The SA Hoarding keeping me busy. and broke.

Stu Aull
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Apr 5, 2018 | 10:04 PM

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The SA Hoarding keeping me busy. and broke.

Stu Aull
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AZ

Hey, wait..... you can't hoard what you don't have access to, right? Or.... maybe leaving all of those parts in AK was part of your MASTER plan of delayed gratification..... MUHAAAAAA!

Apr 6, 2018 | 02:02 AM

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Hey, wait..... you can't hoard what you don't have access to, right? Or.... maybe leaving all of those parts in AK was part of your MASTER plan of delayed gratification..... MUHAAAAAA!

I shake my fist in your general direction, Tim!
If Superman can have an arctic Fortress o' Solitude, I can have a Fortress o' SA-itude, no?

;D
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Apr 6, 2018 | 10:35 PM

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In the first pic, the little port at the top of the housing is in the compression area. Was this direct injection?

Apr 6, 2018 | 11:39 PM

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^ and only one spark plug?

Apr 6, 2018 | 11:58 PM

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Looks like it:

More photos are in this Hemmings article

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Apr 7, 2018 | 01:43 AM

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Thanks for the C111 Hemmings link j_
!
quoted MB engineer in article:
“Our four-rotor engine with gasoline injection represented the optimum of what could be reached with this engine concept."
So it as mechanical fuel injection I think.
Then he went on to whine about the crappy fuel economy:
"Due to the elongated, not exactly compact combustion chambers, fuel economy was poor, resulting in high fuel consumption and unacceptably high pollutant emissions. These drawbacks were inherent in the design principle,” remembers Dr. Kurt Obländer, the head of engine testing for the C111 project.

I understand the last of the C111 cars (there were...4?) was finally used as a test bed for...diesel engines. Oh the ignominy!

Stu Aull
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AZ