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Evolv 10-02-2014 10:40 AM

1973 4-rotor corvette
 
Found this trolling the net.

Wankel-Powered Mid-Engine Corvette | GM Authority

hoosier1104 10-06-2014 10:46 AM

Polish a turd, it is still a Chevy.

reni04 01-13-2015 03:24 PM

May be so but you must admit it might be fun to drive a 4 rotor from cheev, at least till it breaks lol.

JCrane82 01-13-2015 04:44 PM

All of my car buddies think I am crazy when I tell them that there once was a 4 rotor, rear engine, corvette concept car.

reni04 01-14-2015 03:19 PM


Originally Posted by JCrane82 (Post 4656230)
All of my car buddies think I am crazy when I tell them that there once was a 4 rotor, rear engine, corvette concept car.



I told my son about the mid engine 73 corvette and he said i was craszy until i showed him the article ha ha.

vis_eclipse 02-27-2015 03:15 PM

I can only imagine all the pissed off vette lovers.

scottish 02-27-2015 07:13 PM

GM took a serious look into the rotary as far back as 1960.

VAUXHALL - ROTARY ENGINE PROJECT

Legot 02-27-2015 08:22 PM

So did Rolls Royce, they even went as far as to develop a dual rotor diesel engine. The smaller, top rotor was more if a Wankel supercharger to get the needed compression.

JCrane82 03-02-2015 07:39 AM

Almost every company was experimenting with rotarys in some way. John Deere was even developing a diesel rotary into the 1980's.

gwilliams6 03-02-2015 07:44 PM

I remember this car, it was developed as a show car the same year I bought my first rotary , an RX3 coupe from Mazda , while I was a 22 yr old driver in college.

reni04 03-03-2015 02:06 PM

sure wish i had the bucks to buy a 3 rotor to stick in my 04 8.

supak11111 11-16-2015 11:48 PM

One of my friends thats a Chevy freak told me that GM "toyed around" with rotary back in the day but never decide to use them because of reliability. Not that I didn't believe him I just never looked it up. He still never raced my toy rotary FD with his small block Chevy tho lol.

LifeAfterRx8 11-17-2015 12:08 AM


Originally Posted by hoosier1104 (Post 4633469)
Polish a turd, it is still a Chevy.

Except Chevys are awesome and the LS/LT1 motors are superior engines in terms of reliability and raw power.


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