unixpilot

Check it out....


http://www.rx-7-power.de/video/graupner.mpg

crispeed

Pretty cool!

crispeed
87 Rx-7 TII
9.204@150.47mph
2600lbs
un-tubbed

unixpilot

Ya i've seen em in catalogs...just never a vid of one actually running....

be pretty cool to strap that into a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 model

unixpilot

My germans not so good but it looks like it runs up to 17,000 rpm

Bridgeported

Hey that's pretty cool - I've never seen that before.
Does anyone have any information on this engine besides what is posted at the start of the video?

RICE RACING

I used to own one of those engines 10 years ago! never got it started (still in box) when I took it back to the model shop cause I found that it would be impossible on my tight budget (at the time "student" still paying off my first gen!) to configure it to run in a model RC chassis.....it would require too much custom fabrication.

NOW I want one ! Does anybody know where I can get one already set up as a complete running RC car kit ?

I will pay good money, I remember seeing one running in Porsche body 1/8th scale car of the net and it was simply awsome !

I REALY WANT ONE, CAN ANYBODY HELP ME????

BlackFC_NYC

yeah, i would love to see it, but my wonderful dial up doesnt like the sound of that. im pissed. i have to get rid of this ****.

CHEF_EG_1

IIRC, it can't be run in a car because it needs the prop wash to cool its heatsink. Otherwise, it'd be hella cool....considering it's almost 5x the size of most R/C car engines.

Scalliwag

I have seen these on Ebay before. Maybe not the same brand though. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3102980022

KNONFS

iTrader: (14)

www.towerhobbies.com

HWO

you ever seen what they do to boat engines with the copper pipe wrapped around the engine?? there is no reason why a similar thing couldn't be used to put one into a car, just need a simple water pump and a little resivour, where there's a will, there's a way, also remeber some of the guys in this thread are from down under WHERE ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!

Bridgeported

http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXBY72&P=7

setzep

Think they sell a kit for that copper water pipe mod??

I agree 100%, part of tinkering around with stuff is making it work on your own. It's normally cheeper that way and you get to learn something along the way.

RICE RACING

Yeah the motor is no worries, I was asking if anybody knew of a company offering a predone kit that is set up for a car???

The ones I have seen (one posted on here a while back) showed the OS Wankel mounted in a chassis with a special fan about the same OD as the rotor housing for engine cooling then going to a two speed box, it was a bitumen car. I would prefer an of road type but will take either if I can find a pre fitted kit.

I am sure they would be a popular seller with rotary owners` I would love to own one The one I saw on the net all those years ago was fitted with an extractor type muffler and **** me it sounded like a little rotor (more so than in the sample movie above) as it screamed around the track, it was awsome !

Any one dig up info on where I can get a ready done kit from and I will give you a reward If all else fails I will have to resort to making one..........ONE DAY.

Rota_Motor

OH now I really want one of them

maxcooper

Cool video -- that's the first time I have seen one run. That would be cool to have in an RC car.

-Max

Node

iTrader: (1)

I've only seen the OS Wankel engines. Make like 1.2hp.
They have them at Tower Hobbies, OS has a site too.

RICE: this the article you're talking about? Pimpy, isn't it
http://www.pbase.com/image/10319562
http://www.pbase.com/image/10319655

RICE RACING

THATS IT !!!!

Please Sweet Lord Jezus, someone find out for me where I can buy this kit (preferably in off road chassis, but road will do!). I am talking CASH reward for the person who finds it.

I have spend countless hours searching and cannot find ****

Node

iTrader: (1)

I think its custom. Same OS engine, just a custom cooling fan.
Use your Aussie enginuity and ghettorig that lil ******!

setzep

Wow, that sucker has some big apex seal grooves for the size of the engine. (nodes link pics)

RICE RACING

**** it !

I am very much an impulse buyer and decided to buy a traction control unit and a new wide band meter instead of a toy car

I just don't have enough time on my hands to fabricate up a model but am willing to pay for a pre done kit, though not right now after my latest spending spree

But yeah offer is still there to who can locate me a kit, I will look after you Just have to wait a few months till my bank balance recovers.

Untill then I will have to play with cars that are just a tad bigger

peejay

Can't be that hard to mill your own mini-Wankel.... No side seals or corner seals on the rotor, just three apex seals and you could probably make those yourself too.

CHEF_EG_1

yeah, but think of the engineering nightmare for the e-shaft?


and you KNOW there's gonna be some jackass like me that will want a mini-4 rotor, to go with the full scale 4 rotor.