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??

 

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.

Dan

 

i remember they put one of those on a monster truck, in a R/C Car Action magazine.

 

yeah that **** is tight, lets put 14 of these in out cars, **** a 20b when you got a 1400b yessss

 

let's port it

 

Most of the first airplanes had radial engines, not rotaries. Harley engines are very close to a 2 cylinder radial engine design.

 

porting it would be fucken crazy. It might work . I heard they have some type of peripheral port. WOW

 

Used them in some of my rc planes. Yes I have seen people porting them
Thanks Robert

 

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

 

how fast do those planes go? ram air supercharger with a pop off valve to control boost

 

sounds fun

 

oow oow!!!

we could hook up a second propeller to a tube for a s/c

 

they actually made superchargers and turbos for nitro RC cars, ive seen it before.

its crazy.

 

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

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

 

WOW!!!

they even made a radiator for it!!

thats awesome!

 

Not Sure he did mention they are faster than piston powered planes > also they are hard to land soposedly cuz there hard to idle