R S Bruner wrote:
     > >>>>
     > >>>> I was wondering if the rotary engine backwards, you know counter
     > >>>> rotate?
     > >> Is that possible
     > >>>>
     > >>>> Ralph

This has been talked about here before. I contend that it would be a simple fix to build a mirror image 13B, henceforth called the B31. Take the rotor housings and middle housing from a 13B, build mirror image end housings, a mirror image oil pump and there you are!  A mirror imageof the 13B, rotating in th opposite way from the 13B! Fantasticly simple! I'm going to need one when I build my scale P-38. I have to do something with all the money left over from when I finish my RV-4.

Seriously, though, if anyone ever does start making aluminum end housings for the 13B, this would be something that could be accomplished with just a little more effort, mostly in constructing a mirror image oil pump housing to facilitate the oil pump running in reverse.
And as for building the scale P-38, all I have  to do is win the lottery. Mebbe use a 20B and a B02 engines?
Brian Trubee

 
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