I've always wondered, why haven't Doritos made a comeback in the small engine department...

2bh 2 strokes haven't really changed all that much since then either, 2 stroke tech could use some advancement as well, but it will never get it since it burns oil, just like a rotary does.
Burning oil is a big no-no.

But why is burning oil bad

It spooks hyper liberals because muh environment

The average consumer will never check the oil often enough, if at all.

2 strokes (including Sachs wankels) don't have oil systems, all the oil is from premix.

it's difficult to make an engine that burns oil by design pass emissions regs

Because space isn't the concern, emissions and fuel economy are. The rotary was only viable in Japan due to displacement regulations that aren't really a thing anymore. In passenger cars they will never be a thing again.

As far as go karts go, I think track karts have certain regulations that probably just don't permit rotaries. They are too expensive for the off road kind when a simple Chinese knockoff of a Honda motor works just as well.

Motorcycles might have a chance because space is very limited, and who cares about fuel efficiency it weights nothing and is a toy for most people. Bikes hardly have shit in the way of emissions either.

This isn't the issue anymore. The issue is unburnt hydrocarbons. Diesel marine ships use direct injection with forced induction so they put oil in the crankcase. 2 strokes are ass at efficiency and let a lot of fuel leave.

Only in America does being environmentally conscious get you labeled as a hyper liberal. Guess that's what you get with first world GDP and third world education.

>aren't really a thing anymore
Except they are?
The issue is emissions in most prefectures is also a thing, hence why new rotaries are not being made.

What if they used old cooking oil to make it carbon neutral?

That may be true, but is it more torque, and less money than a harbor freight 212cc?

>tfw your car literally fries its dorito in cooking oil

>wankels cant have good fuel efficiency and are unreliable
you'd better let
mistral-engines.com
know

>For small engines, it's all about torque, which a wankel does not have.
this

for this engine to be useful, you would need some serious gear reduction. You can't just run something with this engine only, unless it is something that requires high rpm and has little resistance to movement. Adding a transmission just adds pointless cost

it's not that they can't, I think it's more no one wants to spend money developing more efficient ones.

For small engines it's all about torque? That's why superbikes use low revving high torque engines? Oh wait

they have transmission you fucking retard

superbikes are fucking featherweight, torque is not as big of a concern as in cars. My mate worked in a bike repair shop and lifted the damn things every day with little effort.

Compare a sub-100kg bike with a 1+ ton car and ask yourself if the torque requirements are the same. You mong.

How do Mazda's rotaries differ from rotaries from other developers, such as Curtiss Wright's? Could you use an airplane rotary engine in a car? From what I understand, automotive rotary development was extremely limited, and most automakers abandoned it not because of reliability concerns or lack of torque, but because of the oil crisis. So we only have Mazda's take on the rotary, a company that makes junk.

Radial /= Rotary

Geo metros and Hyundai excels are such torque machines tho

>company's logo is a fucking rotary
>radial engine

>Wright engines
>piston driven rotaries
>same as Wankel triangle bullshit

you fuckin wot m8

He LITERALLY said Curtiss-Wright you nonce

did you even look at the post he was replying to, or were you just looking at the pictures

There are both radial and rotary plane engines. The difference being, in radials, the crank spins, turning the propeller with it. Rotary looks similar, but the crank is mounted to the plane, then rest of the engine spins, turning the propeller with it. Both rotary and radial plane engines have been tried in cars. Adams-Farwell, an American car manufacturer in late 19th, and early 20th century built cars with rotary style plane engines. There is one still in existence.

>the difference being asgsjladga hurrrrrr
the difference is that radial engines have pistons and rotary engines have a fucking triangle. That alone makes them two entirely different beasts

Gold

Yes, but that's getting nit-picky. Usually the definitions don't matter as much because aero engines *generally* stay distinct from auto engines, hence a rotary to most av geeks refers to things like the Gnome and Le Rhone of WWI fame while to auto enthusiasts obviously means a Wankel. When getting technical, I generally see people referring to the aero-types as rotary-radials and the Wankels as either Wankels or rotaries. It's more semantics though than anything.

There were some early motorcycles that used rotary-radials too, centered on the rear wheel.

The average person doesn't know what the fuck engine oil is/does. People struggle to bake a cake these days and you expect them to mix oil and gas?

Rotaries, radials, and wankles are all different types of internal combustion engine.

makes me wonder if someone has made a wankel rotary, where the rotor is static and the block spins

There's a small Japanese market Mazda car that has a 300cc or so dorito spinning at optimal rpm being used as a generator to run the electric motor.

>This isn't the issue anymore. The issue is unburnt hydrocarbons
oil is unburned hydrocarbons.....
>Diesel marine ships use direct injection with forced induction so they put oil in the crankcase
>diesel marine ships
Not even close in design to a 2 stroke in say, a moped or a dirt bike.
Conventional 2 strokes pump the fuel air mixture through the crank case, where the oil is, and the oil follows where the gas goes.
Into the combustion chamber.
The cylinder walls and piston rings must be lubricated, the oil used for lubrication will burn.

Meant UHC from oil. Those diesel marine engines still follow a 2stoke cycle, and he asked if 2 stokes have developed. They have, but not in any "conventional" method that you would see outside of industry. Point still stands.

...

>cheap
I wish

Because in a piston engine the piston is being pushed down at a 90 degree angle, also you have a large area to seal including the side seals.

Dude, motorized bicycles, go karts, and 75% of other small engine vehicles don't have a transmission, they usually have a centrifugal clutch. You're also missing the point that nobody wants to spend more than maybe $400 on a small engine, and most people don't even spend that much on the entire build.

rotary engine
youtube.com/watch?v=CYc-H8Wg-MQ

radial engine
youtube.com/watch?v=pEbDlNeMtLM

FC's are rather cheap to be honest

>>op just wants a fidget spinner for an engine.

Lol, that's why I run castor 927 in my jet ski.

Only in hypertard land do we ban things because of some kneejerk reaction.

youtu.be/yi3erdgVVTw

Ktm has or is developing a FI 2 stroke

>jet ski
2 stroke jet skis are banned from most major lakes lol

So?
Changing the method of metering fuel, wow that's really innovative.

kek

>Cheap

Literally nope. A common misconception is that you can just buy the rebuild kit for a thousand bucks and thats it. That's almost never true, if your engine blew the seals, they impact the housing and drag across, gouging it, usually pieces fly off too. The rotors and housings normally get ruined, but the irons can be unusable too.

should be rx-8.
those things go second hand for like $3k. literally no one wants them

Can you buy "upgraded" doritos? Just the triangle part? Always wondered that and never felt like looking.

Yes. In fact, you pretty much have to buy aftermarket doritos because when the apex seals go they usually take out the rotor with them.

It's almost like you can rebuild anything if you Google instructions and an auto parts store

wanklets, when will they learn?

>Only in America does being environmentally conscious get you labeled as a hyper liberal.
It's because some of the liberal extremists make all the other liberals look bad. Those liberals sabotage not just labs, but infrastructure. They may put spikes hidden under the bark in actual logging areas. They've set fire to research labs in my area's university before too. And they constantly file lawsuits in order to drive the costs up as much as possible. They know they will lose, but as long as they can hype up the wording to get the EPA or some other federal agency to take on the case, it costs them very little as the government is the one spending the money.

New bikes, atleast in europe, have to conform to the Euro 4 emissions regulations now. Plenty of bikes were kill due to this.

>sub 100kg superbike
Really made me think

Wankel is light and small, so you can make the bike narrower and thus even lighter still.

those are RADIAL engines

Felix Wankel was the only guy who could design a decent wankel.
That's why we dont use them anymore. Copycat designs by mazda suck