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

As I recall, the shaft comes out both ends - take the power from the
"wrong" end like the usal VW conversions (VW's do not run "backwards"
tho Corvairs do) - Vance

Shaft too small.

Paul Lamar

So a custom e-shaft built with the ends swapped would work?

Chris C.

Probably but then you would have to deal with several other issue like
the thrust bearing, the oil pump drive and how you attach the PSRU to
the front of the engine. That in turn might cause problems for
the water pump inlet and outlet. This does not sound like an easy thing
to do. Doable but very expensive.

Paul Lamar
 
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