Royce Wise wrote:

Here is a link to some tech papers written by Kenichi Yamamoto

http://asmic.com/rotary/ee_deve1.htm

Kinda interesting to read if anyone is interested.

Royce

I was finally able to access that site. Very interesting first hand history
of how the rotary was developed. Too bad the English translation is so
bad. It cries out for rewriting.

Paul here's a page that has about the same info, but in good english.

http://www.rx7uknet.dircon.co.uk/binhist/start2.html

Here' s another page that is also fairly interesting.
http://www.rx7uknet.dircon.co.uk/binhist/start2.html

Ironically I had the same idea of drilling the apex seals a couple of years
ago. Unbeknownst to me Mazda already thought of the idea :-)
Here is my sketch from the CD.

Paul Lamar

Seems mazda has had some good thoughts, or at least the rotary division.

Royce

 
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