Paul,

I have read the rotary emails for long enough now to know that
installation and maintenance of a rotary engine is far beyond my
meager mechanical skills. In the absence of a complete, detailed,
firewall forward installation manual, I’ll have to bow out. However,
I would like to make a couple of suggestions before I go.

First, you are in the best position in the world to write the FF
installation manual. You have the experience, the skill, and the
motivation to do it. A manual would make it lots easier on newbies
like me, interested in rotary power, but with a relatively low (or
nonexistent) level of knowledge or skill.

Second, I have recently read about a guy who goes around the country
holding what he calls “Corvair Colleges.” He’s into Corvair engine
conversions for homebuilt use, just as much as you are into rotary.
So the second suggestion is that you could do likewise. Here are a
couple of references.

http://flycorvair.net/2014/01/31/corvair-college-reference-page/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair_engine

I like the rotary concept, and I believe that there is great
potential for experimental and homebuilt applications. Unfortunately,
the present level of discussion is way over the heads of guys like
me. I’ll have to ask you to please unsubscribe me, but if you
consider either one of my suggestions, I’d be interested in taking a
second look.

Cheers,

Bob Chester Tumwater, WA


You want me to write another book.
Now if only if I could clone myself three times :)

This new patent pending ignition system is big. It may be in all cars in 30 years
just like my clutch throw out annular hyd cylinder is now in all manual
transmission cars.

I do presentations at Sun & Fun each year same as the Corvair guy.
He definitely does a better job of selling the Corvair but 2.5 million
rotaries have been sold. I doubt GM sold 2.5 million Corvair's
before Ralf Nader killed it :)

BTW we had a 65 Corvair equipped with a GM experimental engine
that had individually cylinders just like an aircraft engine at Chaparral.
It was faster around the test track than a Mustang of about the same years.

IMHO the stock engine is not up to an aircraft duty cycle however.
The exhaust valves and the crankshaft are the big problems.

Paul Lamar