Subject: running the backwards
From: ACRE
Date: 1/30/2004, 11:04 AM

R S Bruner wrote:

I was wondering if the rotary engine backwards, you know counter rotate?  Is that possible

Ralph

No. The heat put into the engine would be all wrong.
Also you would have to use the exhaust port as the intake
and the intake port as the exhaust. Not only would this mess up
the valve timing but you might burn the intake ports.

Paul Lamar
 
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