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Twist the throttle, tilt the horizon, and have a great time. What triples are all about...........

Cool. Prediction: You'll never see the engine in large scale production, because all those advantages are ethereal.

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

It isn't far off the rotary. Would love to see a running version....

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Twist the throttle, tilt the horizon, and have a great time. What triples are all about...........

OMG gotta share this. I was searching YouTube for stationary rotary - see a few, somehow this was in the hit list of my search. Totally not related (sorry Moo - no hijack intended) but 43 mins of funny....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSKC9SXu4U0

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This is true. Where I grew up the hills were so steep and long, when your ball rolled down the hill you just said "screw it"...

Neat concept. Might work alright for generators and the like, but it won't work well in a vehicle. There is simply to much rotating mass for quick acceleration and deceleration. It's the same reason turbines aren't practical for cars, they don't like changing speeds either. The only way I can see it working is of it's paired up with a CV transmission or a Turbo Encabulator.

Did you watch to the end Jeff? spinning mass 15lbs less than comparable engine. Though the weigh is farther out from center.

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Twist the throttle, tilt the horizon, and have a great time. What triples are all about...........

I agree Jeff, that rotating mass made me think it would only be suited for a stationery motor. Plus, how are you supposed to get the power drive off it, and you would have to encase it all inside another container for health and safety.
It is good however that people keep thinking "out of the box" and dram up these fresh ideas.

Yup. I have to call shenanigans on that. The rotating mass can't be that much lighter and live for a reasonable length of time. It's akin to holding a Wankel rotary by the crankshaft and spinning the rest of the block around the rotor.


It wouldn't take much to rig up a PTO. The spinning drum could have a ring rear around it, or the end of the drum could have an outer/inner shaft arrangement with a gear on the outer, and crankshaft support on the inner.