- 1. Re: New rotary engines (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 13:16:04 -0600
- Rotary Specialists on Vickery Street in Ft. Worth claims to have built a three rotor 12A. They say it has been running well in races overseas from what they told my friend but they have had some diff
- /html/spridgets/2001-01/msg00197.html (7,294 bytes)
- 2. Re: New rotary engines (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 08:38:44 -0500
- There is a guy in the PA area that is using 3 rotor Wankels to power a full race specialty car. It looks like a Lotus 7 and, last I heard was gonna weigh in around 1600 lbs. Talk about a pocket rocke
- /html/spridgets/2001-01/msg00223.html (8,120 bytes)
- 3. New rotary engines (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 15:38:24 -0500
- Hello list: Since a few folks have mentioned rotary engine swaps for Spridgets (often with positive results) I thought that the following news item sounded interesting. Maybe I don't understand rotar
- /html/spridgets/2000-12/msg01031.html (7,921 bytes)
- 4. Re: New rotary engines (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 16:22:30 EST
- It might be a 2 rotor engine rather than 2 rotary engines? << how does one fit two engines in a single car? >>
- /html/spridgets/2000-12/msg01032.html (6,932 bytes)
- 5. RE: New rotary engines (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:32:02 -0800
- I like the A-Series engine in my Midget. I couldn't see myself dumping it for something else. I've often thought about getting hold of a TR7 with a FUBAR engine and swapping in a rotary. For some str
- /html/spridgets/2000-12/msg01033.html (7,004 bytes)
- 6. Re: New rotary engines (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:50:41 -0800
- No, the car is offered with two different rotary engines <sigh> Ulix Ulix __/__,__ ___/__|\__ ..............................................(_o____o_)....<_O_____O_/... http://www.mirafiori.com/~ulix
- /html/spridgets/2000-12/msg01036.html (7,552 bytes)
- 7. Re: New rotary engines (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:02:53 EST
- I can't say I like non-period modifications very much, especially so engine swaps. If the weight was close I would think about swapping the A-series for a Coventry Climax! The TR7 & motor had a reput
- /html/spridgets/2000-12/msg01037.html (7,642 bytes)
- 8. Re: New rotary engines (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:20:38 -0600
- That looks like a "transration" error. The car will have a 2-rotor 1308 cc engine. I've not seen anything about a front wheel drive car, the rotary is not conducive to FWD applications due to the out
- /html/spridgets/2000-12/msg01038.html (8,216 bytes)
- 9. Re: New rotary engines (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 14:29:17 -0800
- Could be a typo, but consider: The rotary engine is quite compact. Given enuf room any two of just about any kind can be joined. Simplest is one behind the other. Fancy machinists make it look easy.
- /html/spridgets/2000-12/msg01050.html (10,085 bytes)
- 10. Re: New rotary engines (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 12:09:45 -0000
- engine for else. engine Steve Latham had a Climax FWE (?) Twin-cam engine still in the box. Not sure how much he would need to part with it. I offered #100 about 4 years ago and he was tempted. Isn't
- /html/spridgets/2000-12/msg01119.html (7,943 bytes)
- 11. Re: New rotary engines (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:11:16 EST
- Is there a 0 missing from your price! There are were a number of different capacity Coventry Climax engines all of which were lightweight and highly tuned and tunable. They were in fact portable fir
- /html/spridgets/2000-12/msg01130.html (7,680 bytes)
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