Just a thought, and I don?t know why. But with the renisis side
 porting, or peripheral porting. It wouldn?t be very hard at all
 to make a  rotary engine run the opposite direction if a person
 needed it to. I wonder why I care?

 Bob M.

 You are probably thinking of a twin.

 It will run backwards but the internal cooling would be all screwed
 up :)

 Paul Lamar


 It would work perfectly in a parallel universe.
 jd

Paul,
With a few of us working on billet machined side housings (with steel
inserts), the  cooling pattern and bolt patterns could be mirrored and
the
rotor housings mounted rotated 180. This would give a reverse rotation
rotary that had identical performance, both hp and cooling. Other
stuff like
the oil and water pumps would have to be reworked for rotation, but very
doable.
This would provide a great twin set up.
Larry

We might even sell one :)

Then we will have to deal with the law of unintended consequences.

I think we are twenty or thirty years ahead of our time here.
Perhaps when I have my 100th birthday party.

First we must get 100,000 rotaries flying :)


Paul Lamar

Why wouldn't it be easier to beef up the e-shaft and use the other end
of the engine  for power output?

Victor

Much cheaper and more likely to work.
The required modifications are extensive but not nearly as bad as running
the engine in the other direction. A new front cover would
need to be designed and built as well.

Paul Lamar

Pardon my ignorance, but wouldn't it be easier to regear the PSRU/redrive to have have each turning in different directions for a twin. We are already using them and Tracy's current redrive already turn different directions biu with different reduction ratios.

Chris Barber