"Revolutionary 12-Rotor Rotary Engine Unleashed"

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Source: Road & Track
"Revolutionary 12-Rotor Rotary Engine Unleashed"
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Apex Manufacturing and Design has built a twelve-rotor engine for speed boat racing, which is the exact shape of a Big Block Chevy. The engine made 800 lb-ft of torque at 2000 rpm and can spin past 9000 rpm. The need for it to run at wide-open-throttle for hours sounds like solid ground for a rotary design, which usually works best at high rpm.

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