Orochinoyamato

What's the smallest rotary engine available? 25cc? 50cc? How 'bout a tiny turbo to match?



I've been thinking about tthose "put a motor on a bicycle" plans--and wanted to try it with a rotary instead of a 2-cycle. I also want to try that mini-NO2-effect-thing that the canned air does.

evilT2

originally they had some small single rotor setups on morotcycles, but evidently at low rpms they ran very rough, so the project was scrapped

phinsup

They make one for RC cars, that's prolly the smallest!

teknics

actually the smallest is microscopic.



here's a link, look around:



http://www.me.berkeley.edu/mrcl/micro.html



kevin.

pengaru

theres a smaller one, the size of a penny... was created by some university when researching fuel cells for powering portable devices i think.

Travisty

not big enough for a motorcycle but i believe this is the smallest rotary

http://travel.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm.../mrcl/mini.html

papasmurf

show me where to get the tiny rc car engine. i wonder if it would support nitrous.....

teknics

thats one of the larger ones to give you a hint.



kevin

UniqueTII

One of those microscopic ones turns 40K rpms...I guess that C/C++ guy was right.

pengaru

that guy was saying some drag motor turned 30k or some stupid ****, he was implying a mazda based motor did.