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Max777 · 10-08-2009, 04:29 PM

I'm going to say this:

Having that much money, and waiting to start this project, I would invest my money into a rotary engine a different way. Mazda has been developing the 16x rotary engine for quite a while now, and it should be done sometime soon if they decide to put it into production. Now, this will be a brand new engine, and no one will know how to work with it in the beginning. If I had 500k, I would buy a few of the new cars that come with the 16x and begin to do R&D on tuning these engines, maybe even making a 32x 4 rotor engine out of two of them. If you're willing to spend half a million dollars on a car, why not just start a business and have a "job" doing what you like to do?

Doing a 6 rotor seems like an expensive way to figure out that it doesn't work and is not practical. I'm sure that in the development life of the wankel engine, engineers have figured out that it doesnt work well, or we would have 6 rotor busses, heavy duty trucks, etc. out there right now.

10-08-2009, 04:29 PM	#38
Max777 Pirate Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central IL Posts: 1,323 Rep Power: 19	I'm going to say this: Having that much money, and waiting to start this project, I would invest my money into a rotary engine a different way. Mazda has been developing the 16x rotary engine for quite a while now, and it should be done sometime soon if they decide to put it into production. Now, this will be a brand new engine, and no one will know how to work with it in the beginning. If I had 500k, I would buy a few of the new cars that come with the 16x and begin to do R&D on tuning these engines, maybe even making a 32x 4 rotor engine out of two of them. If you're willing to spend half a million dollars on a car, why not just start a business and have a "job" doing what you like to do? Doing a 6 rotor seems like an expensive way to figure out that it doesn't work and is not practical. I'm sure that in the development life of the wankel engine, engineers have figured out that it doesnt work well, or we would have 6 rotor busses, heavy duty trucks, etc. out there right now. __________________ Rotaries:They are NOT that complicated!