uhh....what?
 

what the hell is that from.

that is one big ass rotor. i'd like to see the engine that came out of. lol im sure its just a large scale model to show detail for lesser students on the rotaries.

SWEET! :drool:

i heard they made bigass engines for garbage trucks but i'm too lazy to do a search right now.

but i bet you could probably knock someone out with an apex seal!!

It could be from a airplane engine somebody was fiddling with!

i think that thing would outweigh the whole plane :D

What do you use to press that bearing out...?!

And it looks functional! It has its own design for the cooling, check out the grooves.

--Gary

That may be from an Ingersoll-Rand IR-2500, a 41 liter rotary engine.

http://www.rotaryaviation.com/rotary...y.htm#Part%203

http://www.monito.com/wankel/engines.html

Picture:

http://www.der-wankelmotor.de/Motore...rsol_rand.html

could be. i know they use rotaries in some tank applications (like the ones that go *boom*) of course, they are a bit more heavy duty than what is in our cars.

wow, 31.5L out of one rotor...what the hell is that used for?? airplane or a tank perhaps??? thats just psycho.

Maybe an airplane? Curtiss-Wright manufactures (manufactured?) airplane engines. But they also made industrial engines, I think. Their website didn't mention the RC1-1920, but they did say that they held the US patent on the rotary for a while.

According to the German site, the IR-5000 was 2 rotors x 41 liters per rotor. Impressive, but a little less so if it doesn't move anything.

i wanna stand next to that thing when it's running!

Or at least try. ;)

--Gary

Dude!! that would go great with my rotor reading lamp!!! (kidding)

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