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Laverdaroo:
saw this today, really interesting unit and the engineering is seriously  exotic. Worth a watch.


 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXOffbLH_I0

K2-K6:
Watched that through, you're right Roo, such a calm matter of fact approach to building that.

Just a huge understanding of engineering principles and getting stuck in to carrying out such a project.

I want to hear it run, by the looks of things they're going to build it and fit with a more capable injection/ignition system to assess it fully.

Laverda Dave:
Great video, awesome engineering. A great shame the rotary engine is so heavy on fuel and and suffers high wear rate on the tip seals.  They do however sound absolutely incredible. I will never forget the sound of the rotary Norton at the TT and being able to hear the noise a long, long time before you could see them!

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
When I was in the motor trade back in the early 1970's I used to sell the new NSU RO80 - the later two plug engines fitted with the catalytic converter were much better plus they had the built in rev limiter to stop the rotor tips wearing out too fast - both were twin rotor design early ones had 4 plugs.

They were suited to folk who used them on motorways regularly - they were rated for VEL duty as 2 litre but in reality they were iirc nearer 490 cc each. We had a customer who covered close to 80k miles a year commuting between Birmingham, London & Blackpool - he was a great fan having owned both versions. 20 mpg was pretty much average as they wanted to be driven.

If just used for short commuting they would stall at idle during a journey then refuse to start for a couple of hours due to wet plug fouling.

K2-K6:
Prompt for one of my favourite yt clips https://youtu.be/QtUEPwHnxmU this one a 4 rotor and first Japanese car to win Le Mans 24hr.

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