Pretty cool.
http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2011/09/08/duke-engines-5-cylinder-4-stroke-3-injector-valveless-axial-engine/ (http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2011/09/08/duke-engines-5-cylinder-4-stroke-3-injector-valveless-axial-engine/)
That's pretty wild, I'm not going to lie - I've always been a fan of the Wankel engine from a geek/nerd standpoint, but I don't have any ownership experience with how reliable or easy to maintain they actually are.
This thing looks like a nightmare in terms of bearings and precision components for getting the balance correct across the axis, but there's /plenty/ more things that people have engineered with similar issues, lol.
I'd love to drive something that had this in it - one day :)
Thanks for sharing!
Nothing new here. Just putting combustion in a wobble-plate motor to make it an engine. Hydraulic motors have run on this for a long time. Hell, there are stroke-adjustable wobble-plate engines out there too!
I'm not impressed with the pistons rotating though... thats a lot of rotating mass.
interesting, similar design to many a/c compressors for cars
check out the mighty yet tiny engine
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Massive_Yet_Tiny_%28MYT%29_Engine (http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Massive_Yet_Tiny_%28MYT%29_Engine)
there is not a single video of it running.... lol (the MYT engine that is)