A buddy at work told me he heard briggs and straton made a rotary. He belives it was in the 70's I know a lot of different manufactures had rotary programs back in the 60-70's era, but never heard of that one. He thought they produced it,and if so wonders if there are any out there to find. He races g0-carts and thinks it'd be a neat motor to use.

 

well i cant say no, however,

In all my reading, B&S was never mentioned as a company that bought licensing to manufacture a rotary engine

 

Same here. I've never heard of them making one, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they didn't.

 

John Deere

 

I didn't think anything ever came of John Deere's rotary program.

The Sachs motors used in Arctic Cats would make a great go-kart engines. Actually that's a project that I'd really like to do someday.

 

John Deere actually sold some rotaries. There's a brochure floating around out there on the internet somewhere of rotary engines made by them. They even have a set of rotors from a John Deere Diesel rotary at Pettit Racing hanging up on the wall in the shop. When I saw them I thought they were wierd 12A race rotors, untill I looked closer and Cam said that they were Deere Diesel rotors.

 

There was a single rotor, push style lawn mower in the 70's I forget who made it but I saw one of them years ago.

the rotor was alighned horizontal with the mower deck, and it had the standard pull rope to start it.

I honestly cannot for the life of me remember who made it though.

kenn

 

^^^pretty cool, wish i could see that.

 

i saw one of these on ebay not to long ago and i cant remember who made it either lol

 

Sachs made the mowers, outboard engines, and the 303 snowmobile engines you see on ebay occasionally.

 

cool guys my guess is it's the sachs lawn mower engine he meant but just assumed it was by briggs and straton since they are the best known for small mower and go cart motors.

 

look on youtube you will find vids of sachs rotaries. have you guys seen the vanguard v-twin B&S 20hp go-cart engine? i wanted to use it for a go-cart i had. damn thing costs 900bucks

 

briggs and straton make a rotary,,,, they can barely make a piston motor right

 

Hey man I don,t think they made a rotary engine I think your thinking of the km3 engine made by sachs its a 110cc rotary engine made by sachs, Ive got two of these engines one is on my lawnmower that I use ever couple of weeks and the other I have periphial ported and am fitting it to a honda mb 100 If you want any more info pics or vids just email me on aerobubb1@hotmail.com happy to share!