I know, I know, I will probably get flamed for this one . I had this idea to put a rotary into a small front driver that has a short spot for the existing engine. Then it occured to me that it might be possible to build a single rotor 13b. So how about it, can this be done on the relatively cheap?.

 

it wouldn't be a 13b then....it would be more of a 6.5

 

talk to atkins, i think they built one

 

there is a picture of a single rotor engine on page 7 of the racing beat catalog, the say they built it for nasa so they might know too.

 

Haven't kept up on Atkins progress, but they were offering a single rotor e-shaft. Others have made single rotary engines and put them into production, there was a single rotor air cooled snow mobile. Don't recall the brand name offhand.

 

don forget the rotory bikes and of course the nsu spider (maybe spyder) had a single rotor. there are also outboard style singles for sale too. i forget the company though. maybe pineapple racing. i dont feel like searchin right now..

 

sachs rotary

 

Yep, that's the one. A friend of mine came up with one in CT. He even found an old guy who had worked on them and still had oem rebuild kits for the engines. My friend wanted to install the engine in a go kart. It would have been fun, but very loud. He did send me a vid when he got the engine running but never built the kart. Lost the vid with my last comp crash. Iirc, the engine was 654 cc, 1/2 of our 13Bs.

There's also been smaller versions of single rotors that were used for weed eaters and chain saws.

 

The car is small 1700 lbs but it is not a go cart.I was anticipating to still make over a hundred horse power with one rotor!.Otherwise there is no advatage to this.