You know Guys what this sounds llike the NSR 500 Honda. Honda would hace
liked to build a V-8 engine but the F1 Motorcycle rule book banned engines of
more than 4 cylinders. So...Honda built a 4 cylinder with OVAL pistons with 2
con rods per piston! It even ran pretty good but still couldn't beat the 2
strokes. The double wide rotorwould really be interesting. I believe you would
have trouble unless you could put sationary gears on BOTH ends. The gears would
need to be timed perfectly though. It would be a fun project.
Bill Jepson
In a message dated 6/5/2008 7:13:27 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
panzera@experimental-aviation.com writes:
I’m thinking that you
don’t have a great enough height-to-width ratio and the rotor could get cocked
and cause some horrific wear on the end iron.
My
2¢
Pat
From: Rotary
motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Lynn Hanover
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:39
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To: Rotary motors in
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Subject: [FlyRotary]
Big engines
In this case you could machine away one face or both
faces and braze two rotors together. One end with the gear and the other
without. You could have twice the bearing length, and nearly twice the
displacement.
Just the crank, rotors and housings would be
special. Everything else could be stock pieces. Maybe double the torque,
could be direct drive?
The rotors can also be TIG welded. Repairs are often
required when reducing weight.
One complete housing with "O" rings against another
machined down without "O" rings. "O" ringed end Irons against non "O" ringed
center section.