I was just over at Hayes Rotary trying to prevail upon Dennis to come
up to Arlington to give a presentation and perhaps do a World Record
engine assembly
attempt. (Rich Martin's idea, and a good one at that.) He already
holds the world record of around 5 minutes, so he's have nothing to
lose and everything to
gain.
Anyway, Dennis showed me something of interest- two Curtis Wright
Wankels. They were sent to him for a rebuild. The story is this- in
1964 this engine was put
into a Ford Mustang prototype. It is supposed to make 185 hp at 5000
rpm, has a center housing main bearing, aluminum end and rotor
housings- the rear end
housing weighs 6.1 kilograms- 13.8 lbs. The end and middle housings
have a coating that looks like steel. Engine has a dry sump. Enclosed
are some pictures-
the rotors were in the hot tank and I'll see about some photos of
them in a few days. There are a few pictures with 13 B rotor housings
for comparison.
Enjoy.
Brian Trubee
Paul,
I forgot to mention, Dennis is looking for ANY information on these
engines. He needs any technical, historical and parts information.
He's looking for any
parts sources. It seems that Schucks is fresh out of parts for these
beasts.
Brian Trubee
Here are some other pictures of the engine I took at the P&W museum
along with the first one you sent.
Paul Lamar
Dang Brian. Don't send those one meg pictures. I know it is not entirely
your fault as Microsoft did not include jpg manipulation software with
Windows unlike the stuff that comes with Linux. It clogs up my ISP
as I am still on dial up. It is also a lot of extra work for me cutting
them down
to internet publishing size. Maybe you can set your camera to smaller
rez. 640 by 480 is optimum. That is less than a meg pixels.
6 gig pixel cameras are fine if you are going to print pictures but
sending
them over the internet on dial up lines is impractical.
Paul Lamar
What's the displacement on that?
Chris Cosman
I think it is 120 cubic inches. The 13B is about 80 cubic inches.
There is lots of info on this engine in Jan Norbye book The Wankel Engine.
Paul Lamar
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Sorry about the size of the pictures. I'll see if I can make them smaller next time.
Does anyone have any information about those engines? Does John Deere hold the rights to them?
Brian Trubee
Did you see the above message Brian? When you are responding to a thread please
forward quote the previous message on the same subject. Cuts my work down.
Perhaps Dennis can find or has a copy of the Norbye book. Lots of info on
this engine.
Paul Lamar
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