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The Mazda Rotary Engine Part 1

February 6, 2011 by chec  
Filed under Engine


Educational film by Toyo Kogyo about the Mazda Rotary Engine. Shows how the Rotary engine works with comparisons to the Piston Engine. Also shows the Mazda RX500 test vehicle on a banked circuit and the Mazda Cosmo Sport (or 110S). Originates from the late 60’s.

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25 Responses to “The Mazda Rotary Engine Part 1”
  1. GabrielOfTheeInferno says:

    this is the first video ive seen that has addressed the fact that there are 3 stages happening continually.

  2. HUMMVE100 says:

    @TuxedoRonny it is mainly because they did not have fuel injection and carburators were not a efficant enough way to get air/fuel mixtures in the combustion chamber

  3. lazakas says:

    Great engine and much less complicated than the Cylinder engine…Mazda Citroen and NSU were the companies that fitted it…

  4. 69aussieguy says:

    As good as this design may seem, it has major disadvantages. Rotary engines use a lot more fuel, this is because the transfer of energy from the rotation of the rotor to the crankshaft is very poor…….the center of the rotor only moves slightly in a circler motion as the rotor goes around the chamber. It’s this circler motion that then forces the crank to go around, the movement it’s enough to transfer energy efficiently.

  5. lolbewbz says:

    @redrocketman123 There’s another olden day educational video on differentials on here which is just as good.
    olden days are so much cooler than now.

  6. redrocketman123 says:

    that is by far the mot educational video i have watched on this topic..

  7. Tj1056 says:

    @craizygolf1980 yes everyone knows that Felix Wankel designed this…

  8. craizygolf1980 says:

    A German guy build this, but he was to smart for hes time and no one could back him up…. so a f*รท+# a guy from jap. took the idea and put it to development….. so now every ignorant thinks the jap. came up with this engine !!!!!!

  9. FrozenBlaze says:

    Everything is so much easier to understand if it’s a cartoon.
    Now I know how to build a rotary engine, which can take you to the moon.

  10. TuxedoRonny says:

    @eriko5791

    Wow, real classy douchebag.

  11. eriko5791 says:

    @TuxedoRonny Actually, you’re just a retard.

  12. TheStaniG says:

    Wow great video. Learnt alot

  13. guerilla619 says:

    all these years ive understood perfectly how a conventional piston engine worked but was stumped about rotary engines. this 1 video cleared everything up

  14. 3rdgenration says:

    one smart cookie who made this…

  15. 3rdgenration says:

    @dreadnaught6399 nah man there are three sides so one is always combusting so everystroke (technically) is a power stroke.

  16. surreaLinnovatioN says:

    @TuxedoRonny
    Politricks (Politics) smh. They have a very efficient way of holding use back in so many ways…

  17. USGiorgi says:

    @ruberneck43
    Germany is not in Asia.

  18. dreadnaught6399 says:

    ok in a way these are like 2strokes.

  19. ROCKSOLID19 says:

    Its a simple concept, less moving parts that waste energy and better transfer of that kinetic energy to the transmission.

  20. ruberneck43 says:

    damn asians are smart

  21. Elementalg1 says:

    At first it looks like an optical illusion.

  22. tangent272 says:

    By my understanding of this this should mean that, all things being equal, a rotary should have 6 times the power (and fuel consumption) of an equivilent capacity reciprocating engine because it’s firing 3 times on each rotation whereas a reciprocating engine is firing only once on every 2nd rotation. On the other hand, the explosion is not as efficiently channeled into an obvious dirrection of motion so that’s why a 2ltr MX6 engine isn’t equivilent to a 12ltr engine. Also very precice machining

  23. supboy666 says:

    @meharidude well yeah my bad it regulates but it dosent have valves maybe its because since each side acts as a piston in which case they atleast have 2 rotors which equal 6 its like a 6 cyl atleast also its copletely dif so rotarys are built to be physicaly and kineticaly efficient not gas lol like most race cars

  24. meharidude says:

    @under82
    sorry:D

  25. meharidude says:

    @supboy666

    Compression and intake wise, it works like any other petrol engine, it sucks in a mixture of air and petrol (“gas”) and regulates on the amount. its not a diesel you know:-D

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