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| Originally Posted by Ben Interesting idea Brian. Rotary engines can produce high power figures for their size (and also tend to be very smooth running), but as you have said, they have even less low rev torque than a piston engine, probably having characteristics closer to that of a turbine.
You'd probably need to gear it down and add some forced induction.
If you added a reduction gearbox, you might as well add a 90deg. elbow and lie the engine down as it was designed to run.
I think torque would be the first hurdle. |
As far as I know Cube for Cube Rotary engines have far more torque than Reciprocating engines. Can it be they have torque characteristics like a Electric motor?
Just check out the tiny rotary engines in the mazda RX-8 1.3 liter!!