An interesting engine swap.
05-25-2013, 01:30 PM
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To be fair, I have utterly no idea whether the car is actually driveable, or if this was just a stunt. The crankshaft of the rotary radial engine is definitely at a higher plane than the stock crank and input shaft to the transmission, so you'd have to fabricate some sort of belt or chain drive to transfer the power to a lower intermediate shaft, and then a clutch assembly to couple it to the transmission.
Looks cool as hell though.
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Notice the license plate? It's a California car. And since that's an early 60s vintage Bug, this engine swap is CARB legal (unlike, say, putting a turbo onto a clean-running '00-'05 Miata.)
Looks cool as hell though.
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Notice the license plate? It's a California car. And since that's an early 60s vintage Bug, this engine swap is CARB legal (unlike, say, putting a turbo onto a clean-running '00-'05 Miata.)
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05-25-2013, 04:48 PM
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On the downside, power is limited by the amount of air which can be sucked in through a hollowed-out crankshaft, and they are lubricated in a total-loss system, somewhat like a two-cycle engine. Pressurized oil is supplied to the bearings by a pump, but it is never recovered and instead goes out of the engine through the cylinders.
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05-31-2013, 01:28 PM
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They're supposedly quite well-balanced and run very smoothly. Consider that in a rotary design, the crankcase, cylinders and heads all collectively act as a gigantic flywheel.
On the downside, power is limited by the amount of air which can be sucked in through a hollowed-out crankshaft, and they are lubricated in a total-loss system, somewhat like a two-cycle engine. Pressurized oil is supplied to the bearings by a pump, but it is never recovered and instead goes out of the engine through the cylinders.
On the downside, power is limited by the amount of air which can be sucked in through a hollowed-out crankshaft, and they are lubricated in a total-loss system, somewhat like a two-cycle engine. Pressurized oil is supplied to the bearings by a pump, but it is never recovered and instead goes out of the engine through the cylinders.
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