Rotary engine in RC car!!

[BALISTC]

http://www.rcfans.com/bbs/picture/onroad/20041191692518764.jpg
http://www.rcfans.com/bbs/picture/onroad/20041191695925987.jpg

Thats actually an O.S. rotary aircraft engine, in a custom 1/8 scale tourer!

I cant get over how nicely done that conversion is !amazed

To top it off, it has a Mazda 787B LeMans shell on it!!

[azzachaz]

is it rotary is in piston or rotor rotary?

Those Le Mans Mazda were sweet. Did they have 20B rotaries like the Cosmo's?

[azzachaz]

agree about the conversion, looks almost OEM!

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The 787B had a peripheral ported 26B quad rotor in it.

This was available through Mazda as a listed part number, but only if you had $110,000 available!!! I know because I enquired...I used to own an RX7 :)

Its a rotary engine as in a proper wankel engine....O.S. is the only RC manufacturer to build a wankel engine.

[BALISTC]

Also, those 2 fuel tanks you see there arent both fuel tanks....one is a water tank for the radiator.

The engine is fully water cooled!

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i wonder what it will rev to, because as we all know, a real life rotary screems its tits to the upper RPM range.

i wonder if it sounds like a real life rotarty too? bbrrr.....brrrr......bbrrr.....bbrrrr.

[azzachaz]

diffenately the coolest thing i've seen in a while.

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The only thing I do wonder about is its top speed...

Everyone knows that rotary engines are revvers, but that engine only revs in comparison to other plane engines IE it hits 18,000rpm maximum.

[azzachaz]

But the torque/power is probably so awesome they can run high gearing in the second gear

[trq steer]

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