Subject: Transmission adaptors
From: Rotary Engine
Date: 2/5/2006, 8:30 PM
To: AA-me




Do you have any bell housing castings that adapat non mazda
transmissions to the rotary engine?

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.


There are quite a few that put GM automatics behind their rotary for drag
racing, but as far as i know they are mostly adapter plates / spacers
between the rear housing and GM bell. As for an engineered bell housing
solution, there are not many that i am aware of. One is Kennedy's rotary to
the Mustang version of the Borg Warner  T5 found here...
http://www.kennedyeng.com/other.htm

I suppose one could mate a Turbo II's removable bell housing with an adapter
plate for some applications, but the starter location may cause trouble,
depending on what you have in mind.

When i put my internal clutch in/out box behind my 4 rotor, i used an
automatic style rear counterweight and made an adapter that went to the
common Chevy crankshaft/flywheel bolt pattern so that i would have the
option of cheap off-the-shelf small diameter Chevy clutch set-ups in case my
homemade internal clutch/coupler transmission did not work out. I made a
small diameter flex plate that used the rotarys ring gear and had the Chevy
flywheel bolt pattern in conjunction with a fabricated 1/8" steel
bell housing that had a pocket for the Mazda starter to come in from the
rear, and used a common sprint car style direct drive coupler button to
connect the flex plate to the transmission's input shaft.

Hi Paul, remember me? I'm Grant, the guy that got cut from your newsletter
during a discussion about using steel inserts in rotary side housings several
years ago. No hard feelings, you did me a favor in the long run. I was
spending way too much time on my responses. Did anyone ever make any
progress in that area?

Grant

No I don't.  You probably got cut because your in box was full and your
ISP was bouncing messages left and right. That is the usual reason
for getting cut. We rarely cut a trouble maker just because
he is a trouble maker :) There are exceptions every once in a while.
Especially some one that continually uploads copyrighted  stuff they
download from here to some other schlock list :)

-- 
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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