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Two words to send a shiver down anyones spine who has had the misfortune to work on a Rotary Engine.......

ROTAR TIPS !.................ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Pete F
UK

RickG wrote: I worked on quite a few when I worked at Suzuki. What I liked most was that not even the foreman would come near me when I was working on one and I could take as long as I wanted.
They were very complicated but once I understood what was what I got quite good with them

I saw one once a awhile back. I was looking at the massive carburetor setup and the owner told me it had 5 fuel circuits... I also remember a ducted exhaust, the exhaust ran inside a false tube with air intakes at the front to cool the pipes and keep the exhaust from burning the rider and the bike... They must have been interesting to work on.

Very interesting machine, I would have loved to hear it run or even ride it, but it was not running at the time. When I was working as a mechanic we had a guy working with us that was the Rotoray specialist for the Mazda dealership. People came from several hundred miles around to bring their cars to him. He was never out of work. The re-burners in the exhaust system looked about as big as the engines themselves. Strangely I never saw him replacing any rotor seals, though he did the job quite often. I would have loved to see on apart.

I have a strange hankering for the DKW W2000... but have you seen the prices for those now?