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I thought it would be prudent to throw in some material that can help human beings like me visualize the construction and cycles of a rotary engine. All I had to do was a quick search through YouTube.
The rotary engine anatomy

Here is a Car & Driver TV segment talking about a Mazda RX-8 Renesis’ engine [...]

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Here is another oldie from the my old collection of Rotary Engine & RX8 articles. Original publish date 1/24/2005
A brief introduction to Air/Fuel ratios

Definition: the mass of air supplied to the engine divided by the mass of fuel supplied in the same period of time. The Stoichiometric, or chemically correct, air-fuel ratio (A/F ratio) is [...]

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Yet another one of my old Rotary Engine technical articles (originally published on 2/2/2005) I managed to recover from my old site. Enjoy it!
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Characteristics of a rotary engine compared to a 4 stroke piston engine:
A rotary engine’s rotor completes one stroke for every 270º of crank rotation:

Intake 270º of crank rotation.

Compression 540º of crank rotation.

Combustion [...]

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Here is an article I reproduced a long time ago from one of the most ungodly knowledgeable person I’ve ever heard regarding rotary engines.
Rotary engine displacement explained by Fred “rotarygod” Swain

The rotary engine is a 6 stroke internal combustion engine. I know, people will probably start screaming at me for this so let’s get into [...]

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