yokohamaboi

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Dude thats badass! hmm whats next a Boxer Engine? bahaha jk

G3tR3DDY2GR3DDY

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ah damnit i just spent an hour on this and no video!

MaRxtin

we wnat videooo lol

sick **** right here

EdwardsB

After taking the engine apart twice, going through 3 glow plugs and resurfacing the housings...SUCCESS!!!



I will post a video tonight of the engine running for two ~20 second intervals! I need to work on tuning, so it will hold idle. It has little vibration and sounds great running!

bse50

You win!

EdwardsB

Here is the promised video...hopefully have a full length video next week after tuning. Anyone with nitro experience that wants to offer advice on tuning, I will gladly take it.

Here are some pictures of the final engine in my album.

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You tube page:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKd-uSfXvLI

edit: I will put a locking washer on the fly wheel next time!

dozer

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omg omg omg omg omg omg thats fcken badddd assssssssss i want one NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EdwardsB

^thanks man...it took a while to get to this point but I couldn't be happier!

mike[piston eater]

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major props

dozer

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soooo are you gonna mass produce it? i really want one

EdwardsB

the thought never crossed my mind, if I could find a machine shop that would do CNC for a reasonable price it is a possibility for small runs (I can buy the rotor and rotor housing premade already.

I'm not a full time machinist (new hobby of mine) and have to remake a lot of parts due to stupid errors, so for me to mass produce by hand would cost a lot due to scrapped parts. The e-shaft took me 5 attempts to finally get right .

Just a rough guess would put the price ~$1300 or so (mostly machine shop fees and OS Engine parts). For a new rotor and rotor housing it is $240 and you need two, so the kit would already be at $580 for existing OS Engines parts.

Here is a price page for some of the OS Wankel Parts

I could look into producing the custom parts for sale and leaving the OS Engine parts up to the consumer as well as a full kit? I would not even be looking for a big profit because I enjoy this type of work. I wonder if they would sell at that price?

Thanks again everyone I'll think this one over.

dozer

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pretty pricey, but you gotta pay to play! i wanna see that thing push an rx8

EMart11b

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This is one of the coolest threads on the site.

Rotr8

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Lookin good Brent, guess what I got an extra of in the mail,,,
we can scan it in to get the lines of the body then surface model over top of it,,,

EdwardsB

awesome man, that woudl be many time easier than trying to make a model from scratch! I know once this is tuned I will want to tag that extra rotor onto the existing design. I do have the materials necessary...

Bartste

Amazing !!
Great job :-)

MaRxtin

wwooooooooooaaahh.........screw 4th of july fireworks
this was so much better lol

Rotr8

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damn dude, I dont have audio at my home pc so I watched this again and daamnnn sounds better than most peoples real cars here,,,

ASH8

WOW, Congratulations mate, BRILLIANT, FANTASTIC.

You should be real proud of yourself..you are VERY Clever to persevere.

Thought about a production line??

ASH8

Forgot to ask...what is it's engine model designation???

A "2B" or a 3X

EdwardsB

thanks everyone, I appreciate it a lot!

I was talking about production a few posts before, but for pretty much just a SWAG (scientific wild *** guess) I would put it around $1300-$1500. This would probably result is very little interest. If I could find a reasonably priced machine shop I would have no problem producing them for those interested.

Each of the OS engines have a displacement of 4.97cc so for the two of them it would be 9.94cc.

Could that make it a 10X, 1X or .1X? It would be nice to have a name for it.

pdxhak

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Absolutely brilliant! Love the sound and appreciate the effort Great job!

ASH8

Well it is close enough to a 10CC Twin Rotor.

I would call it an E for Edwards...

So it would be a .1E

EdwardsB

thanks

.1E, I like it! thanks ash

RXallan

nice job, really cool project !