Our man Richard Sohn came up with a big surprise
at this years Shady Bend Rotary Engine flyin.
I had the idea of using a steel plate and Royce (I think)
came up with the idea of just milling down the end housings
and using their wear surfaces.

There are a few details yet to be finalized but it
is 95% there. It uses a Subaru water pump so the
water pump location is flexible.

Richard did the entire thing on his CC (Cheap Chinese) mill :-)

Light weight aluminum end housing castings, detonation coated and

ground

are too expensive and too problematic. This is a cost breakthrough

and

a low technical risk, low tech solution.

As you may remember Richard successfully manufactures and sells

adapters

that feed 2 cycle oil to the apex oil metering pump from a separate

oil tank

instead of the engine having to burn that crud out of the oil pan.
Most of his customers are RX7 owners.

This will also work on a 13B and a 20b to further improve the

already

excellent power to weight ratio.

Paul Lamar

More pictures.

Paul Lamar

Is this going to be a product that he intends to manufacture and sell or are
there going to be drawings from which others could duplicate what he has done?

Walter Luikey
Single Rotor Turbocharged Storch
Dracut, MA

That is down the road.

Paul Lamar

Walter, are you running a single rotor now?
Royce

 
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