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Old Feb 22, 2004 | 04:17 AM
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somebody, Anybody, Please Help Me here...

Except for one thirty year old sachs brand lawnmower, I cannot find any reference anywhere to a rotary engine mounted with the shaft Vertical. Not even the helicopter conversions using mazda engines. Even Moller at Freedom motors has no info for me on this. All I want to know about is Anything relating to this idea, how it would effect the lubrication, etc. Im talking if the rotors were spinning flat, crankshaft vertical, like a top or in a daquiri blender or a helicopter's blades=you get it. can Anybody tell me about this? I even emailed Mazda about it, no luck. Thanks.
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Old Feb 22, 2004 | 09:13 AM
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Here is a picture of one at Sevenstock.

Its single rotor 13B mounted vertical.

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Old Feb 23, 2004 | 01:02 AM
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why do you want to know this >???
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Old Feb 23, 2004 | 07:13 AM
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In looking into my own unique rotary installation ideas, I've found the multirotor Mazda engines will have drainback problems if tilted very far to the spark plug side. A vertical shaft would leave no way for oil to drain back from the lower rotor, unless maybe you used two front rotors, with a custom E-shaft, center and rear plates.

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