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Old 03-26-06, 12:10 AM
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Anyone seen this before!
I just ran into this thing looking throught the net.

http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXBY72

Is this for real. Does anyone anyone actually have one of these wankel powered RC engines in their RC cars??
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Yes its for real but its for airplanes. If you look at the owners manual for that engine it actually shows a breakdown of the engine. Its kinda cool seeling a smale scale working version of a rotary engine. Actually as far as i know alot of the old airplane (real airplanes) engines were rotary.

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Old 03-27-06, 04:14 PM
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i remember they put one of those on a monster truck, in a R/C Car Action magazine.
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yeah that **** is tight, lets put 14 of these in out cars, **** a 20b when you got a 1400b yessss
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Old 03-27-06, 05:36 PM
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let's port it
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Most of the first airplanes had radial engines, not rotaries. Harley engines are very close to a 2 cylinder radial engine design.
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Old 03-27-06, 08:21 PM
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porting it would be fucken crazy. It might work . I heard they have some type of peripheral port. WOW
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Used them in some of my rc planes. Yes I have seen people porting them
Thanks Robert
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My Neighbor has a Few Rotary powered R/C airplanes and he mentioned he used to own a R/C Car in the past, Custom made though
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Old 03-28-06, 08:59 PM
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how fast do those planes go? ram air supercharger with a pop off valve to control boost
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Old 03-29-06, 02:10 PM
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sounds fun
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oow oow!!!

we could hook up a second propeller to a tube for a s/c
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they actually made superchargers and turbos for nitro RC cars, ive seen it before.

its crazy.
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heres some photos of a rotary powered 787b RC car:

http://barotary.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=224
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WOW!!!

they even made a radiator for it!!

thats awesome!
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Originally Posted by GUITARJUNKIE28
how fast do those planes go? ram air supercharger with a pop off valve to control boost
Not Sure he did mention they are faster than piston powered planes > also they are hard to land soposedly cuz there hard to idle
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