Mazda Rotary Club

General => General Technical => Anything Engine/Performance/Tuning related => Topic started by: RobbieRX-7 on July 02, 2005, 08:06:41 PM

Title: any1 seen this rotary type engine?
Post by: RobbieRX-7 on July 02, 2005, 08:06:41 PM
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/quasiturbine.htm

works in a similar fashion to a rotary but apparently better??
Title: any1 seen this rotary type engine?
Post by: sdminus on July 02, 2005, 08:09:16 PM
Is it a lego single rotor

Scott
Title: any1 seen this rotary type engine?
Post by: nikp on July 03, 2005, 12:47:18 AM
One version requires no oil!
Title: any1 seen this rotary type engine?
Post by: Martiny on July 03, 2005, 06:35:52 AM
If you think NSU and Mazda struggled with seals on the Wankel, just imagine the headaches for that engine !!!
Title: any1 seen this rotary type engine?
Post by: FD3SNuttah on July 03, 2005, 12:07:45 PM
quisimodo engine!

looks like a verry complex movement. it kinda goes in and out as well as up and down then round and round!!!  :confused:
Title: any1 seen this rotary type engine?
Post by: MikeLMR on July 03, 2005, 12:48:05 PM
they seem to be targeting the small engine market. There is an application for a chainsaw for example. They were looking for an investor about 2-3 years ago when I read about this and they still are now so its not looking too good.

I think there would have to be some amazing benafits for another type of internal combustion engine to be developed successfuly
Title: any1 seen this rotary type engine?
Post by: ScuttleRX on July 03, 2005, 02:44:04 PM
Maybe when hydrogen engines start to take off it will get some backing, as it said on the site they could use many different fuels H being one of them.

Which company is it doing a lot of research into hyrdogen engines, is it Toyota, or possibly Honda?
Title: any1 seen this rotary type engine?
Post by: MikeLMR on July 03, 2005, 03:08:15 PM
erm Mazda have

search for hydrogen + rx8
Title: any1 seen this rotary type engine?
Post by: ScuttleRX on July 03, 2005, 03:43:30 PM
Quoteerm Mazda have

lol, how could I forget that!

Sure another one is aswell though, suppose most of the companies are looking into it to a certain extent
Title: any1 seen this rotary type engine?
Post by: stu0x on July 03, 2005, 03:47:04 PM
Honda are doing a lot of work with Hydrogen engines as well