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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.

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’s factory skunkworks turned out this Chevy Vega with a well-engineered all-aluminum small-block in 1972. It didn’t make it to production, but it inspired a generation of hot-rodders!

You're a master of all things LS. You completely understand the Ford FE big blocks. Those Honda B16 engines are no match for your knowledge base. At their core, these engines all behave the same way.

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 ...