Hi all,

Paul, does the book mention, that it actually wasn't Felix Wankel who
came
up with the final design?
Actually Felix was pretty angry when he found out!
He said something like: Now you made a workhorse out of my
thoroughbred!
The then NSU-boss would counter: "I wish we had at least the workhorse
already!"

Today's design was developed by NSU Dipl.-Ing. H.D. Paschke in
absolute
secrecy!
The amazing thing about is the layout - the same as today's Renesis
(side
intake and exhaust!)
see: http://www.der-wankelmotor.de/Techniklexikon/techniklexikon.html
...all the way at the bottom

Unfortunately the side exhaust wasn't any good for the "edge sealing
plate"
and so the exhaust was changed to peripheral. The edge sealing plate
was
also changed for the now common side seals. Unfortunately they never
tried
the side exhaust again - until today's Renesis.

You can see Felix's desing here:
http://www.der-wankelmotor.de/Wankelmotor/wankelmotor.html

and here:
http://www.der-wankelmotor.de/Techniklexikon/DKM_vs_KKM/
dkm_vs_kkm.html

You can translate most of it with:
http://world.altavista.com/?kg=XX&il=en
(AltaVista - Babelfish translater)

Thomas J.

Rolf used to work at NSU when Wankel was there.  There is a two stroke
iteration of the KKM motor with running prototypes.

Hans

 
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