jgrewe

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So I was thinking, has anybody ever put two 2 rotor engines flywheel to flywheel and taken power from in between them in some way with a couple of ring gears and a single pinion? They could maintain regular rotation in each engine because they would be driving opposite sides of the pinion gear. Take that power through a torque tube, ala 944 Porsche, to a rear tranny...... I see these tractor pullers with like 6 engines and start thinking to much. Now I need to find a car thats wide enough in the engine bay to handle two rotory engines and the center adapter I'm imagineering.
I know tell me I'm nuts...

GUITARJUNKIE28

i saw a car with 2 13b's side by side at sevenstock year before last...that's about the closest thing i've seen to what your'e talking about.

epitrochoider

Less efficient than having one flywheel, lots of wasted space inbetween, and the only car wide enough is a hummer of a buggatti. Its would not be the best for racing, but would be the best for a whacko idea. The only advantage I see, is the price of customizing it would probably be less than getting your hands on a 4 rotor engine. And also, custom making a eccentric shaft for a 4 rotor might be expensive too

GUITARJUNKIE28

everyone talks about 3 and 4 rotor engines... i like seeing them and everything, but unless you've got 800 hp touching the wheels in your 2 rotor, and it's STILL not enough, i'd spend more time trying to max out your current setup.

3 and 4 rotor motors are a whole new can of worms....an expensive can.

jgrewe

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Yea, it wouldn't be the best set-up for much of anything that I can think of yet but fun to piece together in my brain. I think you could run without any flywheels on the engines, just a couple of ring gears attached to the e shafts. That would bring up a gear ratio problem though that you would have to work out somewhere in the driveline. It could all fit in an adapter about 4-5 inches wide.
Oh, and I've never had a car with to much HP, to much braking power or handling that was to good!

HAI-TEK7

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Someone connected to 13b's together making a 4 rotor. Made 550 hp, NA stock ports. Read it, its very interesting.

http://members.tripod.com/~grannys/4rotor.html

I'm still bowing down to this guy

Hai

CokeRx7

and for engine bay you could take an old Cutless and try it.. :-D..

Force13B

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Thats extreamly impressive.