Boingers

[Jim Davies]

On Tue, 5 May 1998, Raymond C Drouillard wrote:

> We can argue all day about the relative merits of the two technologies,
> but the Wankyl doesn't seem to have enough to offer to entice more than
> one car company to put any money into it. 

The bottom line on the Wankel Rotary seems to be that the
surface-to-volume ratio is poor, compared to a conventional piston engine,
therefor dooming it to a niche in engine history. OTOH, Felix's rotary
valve engines seem to be pretty interesting...at least the Torpedo V8,
anyway. Talk about serious EGR.

> forcing a few ounces of metal bounce back and forth.  You could hold the
> crank still and rotate the cylinders.  I believe the British made an
> engine that did that.
> 
Well, they made a copy of the original, which was French [of course]... 
vive le differance!

Jim Davies