I'm sorry to say that after my various adventures in "Rotary Land" this last
year it's time to hang up my rotors and put a Lycosaur in my Cozy. My wife
and aviation friends close to me were getting tired of hearing stories of
excitement in the air and were urging me to give up on the rotary and put a
"conventional engine" in my plane. I've wrestled with that decision since I
lost an apex seal in December and last week finally decided to make the
change.

I found a Lycoming for a pretty reasonable cost that should perform well in
my Cozy and I finalized the deal this week.

So, for those "Lurkers" on the list, have I got a deal for you - especially
if you're building a canard pusher! I'm selling all my rotary related parts
and thought I'd offer them on the rotary email lists first. EVERYTHING
needed to fly are here (except for a rebuild kit to repair the apex seal
issue). The items are:

1. Rotary Engine w/ at least 1 broken apex seal. Includes:
   a. Mazda Oil Cooler
   b. Howe Aluminum racing radiator
   c. Atkins Intake Manifold with tuned extensions
   (including injectors)
   d. TWM Throttle body and fuel rail
   e. MicroTech Engine Computer
   f. Bosch 80A Alternator
   g. Starter
   h. Coils
2. Conversion Concepts Engine Mount (for Cozy)
3. Tracy Crook PSRU RD-1B 2.175:1
4. Tracy Crook Engine Monitor - EM-2
5. Custom Tuned Exhaust System (remember
   this is a pusher application it is pointed
   toward the prop)

The engine, mount, and PSRU have a total of about 100hrs of run time on
them.
The exhaust system has all of about 5 hours on it.
The attached pic's show the engine before I went with tuned intake and
exhaust.

I have $7000+ in the engine and all items in #1 above.
The engine mount was originally $650
The PSRU was originally $2800
The EM-2 was originally $950
The tuned exhaust was $700

I'd like to get at least $7000 for all of it.

Thanx,
Joe Hull
Redmond/Seattle WA, Cozy-Mark-IV - 71hrs (of excitement!)

Sorry to hear that Joe.
Who built the engine? What brand of apex seal
was it? In a properly built, non turbo engine, broken apex
seals are almost non heard of. In over a million miles
on the 6 rotary powered cars I have owned I never had
a broken apex seal. Non of them had after market apex seals.
All stock Mazda seals. Only one of my engines needed overhaul
and that was the 1973 12A in my RX2 and that was caused by
melting the neoprene coolant O-rings used in those days.
However, if the apex seals are improperly installed they can break.
High boost and detonation can break an apex seal but it
never happens in a normally aspirated engine with properly
installed Mazda apex seals. You have a strange case there.