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This means it is a reciprocating rotary engine. Yeah, weird stuff. The camshaft is also centrally located in the crankcase ...

Through the 1980s and 1990s the only rotary-powered car sold in the US market was the Mazda RX-7 although Mazda did offer the engine in other Japanese-market models. One of those was a coupe ...

The rotary engine, with its egg-like block and triangular rotor, is an oddball even among all the other oddball engine designs—sorry, three-cylinder, twin-turbo, camless Koenigsegg, ya basic.

Wondering if rotary engines need oil changes? ... Much like how a power drill smokes when drilling into a block of wood, this heat can quickly build up if there's no lubrication.

Rotary engines -- An article in ... Chrysler has its Hemi, Chevy has its small-block V8, Porsche its flat-6. In an overcrowded, look-alike market, the rotary engine is where the soul of Mazda resides.

Like many of our readers, I have an unhealthy fascination with rotary and other non-reciprocating piston engines. In fact, that very first sentence right there probably alienated most of our saner ...

Could there possibly be a rotary engine with 12 rotors? The answer is yes, and here’s everything we know about it including how much HP it could have.

A rotary engine with over 1,000 horsepower was designed for marine applications but the idea never took off. ... designing an 11.6-liter big-block rotary running on diesel for marine applications. ...

GM president Ed Cole, lead engineer 20 years earlier for the Chevrolet small-block V-8 program, pushed for development of the GMRCE (Rotary Combustion Engine), and the automaker developed a 206 ...