Hey i was just informed by my engines instructor that sometime in the 60's GM had two team building a corvette one was the big block and the other was the rotary team. He said that they played around with 4 and 3 rotor engines but wasnt able to keep the engine bolted to the chassis because every time the fired it up it would rip the bolts right out the frame. But if anyone have any mor info. about this experiment give me some info or post a link.

 

here's some info, here

 

i had an "artist rendition"of what it looked like. as soon as i find the magazine ill see about posting pics.

 

Motor Trend, April 2003, p. 85.

2 rotor and 4 rotor

 

I have this "American Musclecar" coffee table book at home with a picture of it in there. When I get home I'll try scanning it and posting it up. The caption says that it was supposed to have a 4 rotor.

 

So for the corvette, they basically just hooked up (2) two rotors eshaft to eshaft? or was it all sandwiched together with one huge eshaft?

 

I don't know how they went about designing that engine, it just says that it had a rotary in it. Kinda odd lookin car eh?



Edit: Sorry about the inverted caption... it says "While the muscle car era was all but dead, Chevrolet tantalized the public with mid-engine concept Corvettes, like the Aerovette, which sported a 400-cube small block. Originally, the Aerovette was called the 4-rotor because of its Rotary power plant."

 

those would have been very nice

 

Whoa. And this was in the 70's? In that case, no wonder why they never actually came into production.. people thought it was a damn UFO..

 

by the shape of that car........... looks like a mid engine car