A model-scale engine was modified by YouTube user Warped Perception, who filmed the transparent-walled Wankel in operation, at speeds stated to be around 18,000 rpm. Part of the fascination Wankel ...

Also, because it lacks these components, the Wankel engine is more reliable and durable under high-load operations. And remember, when the rotor engine runs at speeds of 8,000 rpm, the rotor (the ...

Continuing the swing, just after reaching the point of the smallest volume (and maximum ... 6000 rpm, one revolution for each power impulse. Since the C 111 powerplant is a three-unit Wankel ...

However, the iconic triangular-rotor Wankel is rev-limited by the way its triangular rotors mount eccentrically to its crankshaft, meaning the engine is limited to about 9,000 rpm because the ...

Racing Beat pumped Mazda’s 70-cubic-inch two-rotor 12A Wankel engine from a stock 95 horsepower to a potent 198 stallions stampeding at 8400 rpm. In 1973, Bedard earned pole position in our ...

And then you'll have a 12-rotor Wankel engine, and quite possibly a nosebleed ... he could hit 14,000 RPM. Satan's own dental drill awaits its fate on the engine dyno. Everything about this ...

Powertrain engineering firm AVL has built a prototype Mini with an ER-EV powertrain that uses a 254 cc single-rotor Wankel to produce 15 kilowatts at 5,000 rpm or 25 kW at 7,000 rpm. The 10 ...

Back in March, Martijn ten Brink, Mazda Motor Europe's vice president of sales and customer service, ignited gearheads everywhere when he told Dutch auto news outlet ZERauto that the Wankel rotary ...