this r the rotors that are being assembled and in the process of being tested ill keep this updated when ever it gets tested

 

They look like Billet Aluminum.
What are the weight savings???


L8R

 

SO, they are finally out!!!

How much do they weight, and whats the compression?

 

Are they rotors designed by Lopez or rotors improved on by Lopez?

 

nice....

 

ok they r down to 6 pounds the goal is to take em down to 5, stock rotors r 9 pounds, as for the compression its up to w/e the buyer wants, and this rotors are designed by alex lopez along with E&J autoworks....

 

Papito and the crew of Time Machine, which are good friends of mine, made a small mistake when placing some information on this great site. I would like to take the time to make that correction. We, at E&J Autoworks, are the creators and designers of this rotor with the help of Alex Lopez, which without his help, could not be done. I want to take the time to thank one of my great friends, Leigh Cowlbeck and Alex Lopez for taking time from his busy schedule to build us a test motor. the rotors or upcoming , lopez Racing or Papito from time machine, car with the "fastest 2 rotor with independent suspension". I also want to let every one know that we working on making the rotary motors more powerfull and reliable. We apologize for any misinformation which may have gotton out of hand. Thank You

 

So, have these been ran in a motor yet ?

 

Looks great Edgar, if you need another test motor mine will be going together soon

 

I don't think the weight savings are the biggest gain with billlet rotors.....
And it's about damn time these were made!
-J

 

oh, and glad you're coming out with all these badass parts for rotaries........ keep em coming.

 

+1, looks great but how do they work?

 

they are aluminum?

 

The big problems will be: Gear and roll-pin install and wear. Bearing pressing and wear. And the big one is the seals wearing into the rotor.....i.e. the apex seal wearing ("rounding") the tip of the rotor from thier "side to side" movement. And the same goes for the side seals too.

-J

 

Also don't forget aluminum expands with less heat than steel.It also looks like
there is no pockets for oil to circulate inside the rotor to cool it down.

I think these rotors will work best with ALKY setups where you only run for short burts of power and don't need the extra cooling.

It will be cool to get the rotor ceramic coated for better heat and wear distribution.

 

Yeah I noticed that as well..... I was wondering what they were going to do about that?

 

gansta

 

Man if they work as good as they look..you guys will be onto something huge!

 

The rotors were installed and started. they ran until the engine got to about 200 degrees and turn off. This was done 10 time and every thing seems to be ok. It starts fine when hot and cold. The next test is to run them on the dyno. wish us luck.

A video can be seen on youtube and search under "billet rotor" or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmAxCTTn-NA

 

need to make them out of what mahle uses, if you ask me.. I'd buy it..

 

I was there for three out of the ten times it ran that day.
Keeping fingers crossed for the next best thing that will happen for the rotary motor! RPM to the mooooon!

 

NICE!!!!
Is it running a bolt in center section like we were talking about? If top fuel dragsters could get an aluminum piston to work with all that heat, then its only a matter of time before our guys get it figured out..

 

Another
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eStMcTUkou8

 

Good luck.

 

Really interesting! If it really work then we will see +12 000 rpm motors in the future! Imagine the power of a N/A 13B at 13 000 rpm... 450 hp??

/Lasse