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Old Nov 7, 2011 | 11:03 AM
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Looks insane as always.

Just some food for thought though, are you sure the aluminium intermediate "iron" you've drawn in cad there is strong enough?

Remember, rotor housings want to do this, especially in high hp high boost applications:







The rotor housings need the strenght of the intermediate and frond and rear plates, or else they would seriously warp.

This is also what causes the rear iron to break on older rear iron's.

Your design doesn't look very strong in this area. The steel inserts don't add strength, and the aluminium part has a lot of cutouts, so that's not very strong either.

Ever thought about making the steel insert a bit larger?, like just a little bit smaller than the outer o-ring groove?

That way you can drill the holes for the engine bolts and dowels in the steel insert, so the steel inserts add strength to the engine.
Old Nov 7, 2011 | 02:43 PM
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As always YOU do the insane calculations

I will think about it while I'm trying to give my billet rotors some work.



This is the start of my 4 billet-rotors

Old Nov 9, 2011 | 11:32 AM
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Old Nov 9, 2011 | 03:03 PM
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What oil pump style and front cover pattern do you plan on using?
Old Nov 9, 2011 | 03:09 PM
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Dry-sump-cover
Old Nov 11, 2011 | 11:45 AM
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Rotors is on...
Old Nov 12, 2011 | 07:29 AM
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Old Nov 12, 2011 | 11:22 AM
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The work for the weekend is over. Everything takes more time then you think. And the fact that I don't work in the CNC-Lathe makes it worse...

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Before cleaning...

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Ohh, was it soo deep?

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Old Nov 14, 2011 | 07:45 AM
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Very nice! I can't wait for more updates on the rotors.
Old Nov 15, 2011 | 11:49 AM
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In all this CAD, theory-crap and so on, I have done some backgrounds for my motivation



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Just because



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