How USSR Stole Wankel For KGB

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  • Опубликовано: 15 янв 2025

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  • @bendeleted9155
    @bendeleted9155 Год назад +272

    I had two 1970s RX-2s and they were such sleepers. They were tiny, but came with factory 4barrel carbs. My buddy put a 13B in his Datsun 510 and made a nearly perfect little sports car. Rob Dahm has shown how reliable and powerful they can be.

    • @vitordelima
      @vitordelima Год назад +24

      There was an attempt to certify heavily modified Mazda engines for aircraft due to their many advantages, including reliability, but in the end they couldn't fight the lobbying there.

    • @Low760
      @Low760 Год назад +11

      Rob wasn't the first to show that, just that you're aware of.

    • @bendeleted9155
      @bendeleted9155 Год назад +17

      @@Low760 Rob's predecessors don't have huge RUclips channels to send the viewers here to either. Doesn't mean I'm not aware of them, young man.

    • @andrewsmart2949
      @andrewsmart2949 Год назад +8

      without turbos they are nothing special

    • @vitordelima
      @vitordelima Год назад +9

      @@andrewsmart2949And there are alternative to turbos such as oxygen separating membranes or injecting oxygen stored in some way (such as compressed or in some form of chemical storage).

  • @buubised
    @buubised Год назад +102

    my uncles friend had a rotary lada, it was the fastest car in the region, as long as it lasted.. later they had to put 1.2l inline engine there :D

    • @Chappomusic
      @Chappomusic Год назад +2

      Did he save the Wankel engine ?

    • @buubised
      @buubised Год назад +1

      @@Chappomusic i dont know

    • @rzhevsky4934
      @rzhevsky4934 Год назад +2

      Ты из Эстонии?

    • @buubised
      @buubised Год назад

      @@rzhevsky4934 yes

    • @YuckFoutube-e1z
      @YuckFoutube-e1z Год назад

      He must have used to wrong oil or just simply revved it too hard. Apex seals are a thing.

  • @Random-nf7qb
    @Random-nf7qb Год назад +140

    Late 21059 and the 90s rotary Samaras were available for civilians to freely purchase.
    The only issue was the price which was too high.

    • @Zirrex1
      @Zirrex1 Год назад +7

      last 21059 was made in 1995, and never was available in free sale.

    • @Random-nf7qb
      @Random-nf7qb Год назад +6

      @@Zirrex1 USSR dissolved in 1991.
      And it was.

    • @Zirrex1
      @Zirrex1 Год назад +3

      @@Random-nf7qb где и когда можно было купить 59 машину? будьте добры…. И каким боком тут 91 год?

    • @Random-nf7qb
      @Random-nf7qb Год назад +6

      @@Zirrex1 ну смотрите обзор от Иван Зенкевич.
      После распада СССР, ВАЗу можно было зарабатывать на что угодно. РПД не был какая-то секретная технология.

    • @Zirrex1
      @Zirrex1 Год назад +7

      @@Random-nf7qb проблема в том что я конечно видел много всякого про наши рпд, но при этом владею таким автомобилем и знаком с другими людьми из тематики отечественных рпд поэтому не по наслышке знаю когда и сколько было произведено каких моделей, где они эксплуатировались и что с ними сейчас. 59 машины выпускались с 87 по 95 год, произведено было порядка 50 автомобилей и все они были отгружены, спецслужбам и некоторым организациям напрямую связанным с автомобильной промышленностью, например у АМО ЗИЛ было две голубых чистокровных 59х 88 года с 411 двигателем. 79 и передний привод - да безусловно продавались. Сам лично в 2001 видел в алан авто роторную 99 по цене шестнадцатиклапанной десятки с допами.

  • @Crazy_Borg
    @Crazy_Borg Год назад +95

    World: "Wankel engines are unreliable"
    Mazda: "You're rotating it wrong"
    Interesting, I heard about these before. But I thought they sourced PSA BiRotor engines for this project, never knew they developed own ones!

    • @burschi9276
      @burschi9276 Год назад +6

      PSA (also Citroen) got their rotor engines from NSU.

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад +1

      Wankel engines are inherently unreliable

    • @bumpyroad3251
      @bumpyroad3251 Год назад +10

      That's why Mazda abandoned Wankel engines also... The Rx-8 was one of the most terrible resale value performance car ever.

    • @user-pn3im5sm7k
      @user-pn3im5sm7k Год назад +1

      @@bumpyroad3251Meanwhile the RX-7 FD go for over $70K now 💀

    • @RedLine_Renesis
      @RedLine_Renesis Год назад +2

      @@bumpyroad3251 Mazda never abandoned the rotary engine. Check mazda news and what its president has to say about it

  • @Guns_N_Gears
    @Guns_N_Gears Год назад +69

    I had a 1980 RX7, terrible on fuel, no tourqe at all, but smooth and tons of fun.
    Factory 4 barrel carb with manual choke and a 5 speed. The factory redline on the tach was not the top revs. There was a buzzer that would go off in the dash once the actual top revs were achieved. Still amazing engines to this day!!

    • @andrewsmart2949
      @andrewsmart2949 Год назад +5

      yeah they were nothing special without turbos

    • @zogzoogler
      @zogzoogler Год назад +10

      and the user manual informed that it was a requirement to redline on each drive. recently sold my RX7 FB - light, fun and the smell of petrol. The scream of the rotary feels like 100mph then you realise that the person in the civic behind you wants to get passed as you are only doing 40

    • @SilvaDreams
      @SilvaDreams Год назад +2

      You forgot burned and leaked oil like a sieve. My father had one too, for as long as it lasted.

    • @nathanbateman1912
      @nathanbateman1912 Год назад +1

      I've got a 12a Bridgeport 83 rx7 and it's like a go kart, way too much fun not bad on fuel in my opinion

  • @paulfranks9760
    @paulfranks9760 Год назад +21

    And another great video,i had heard that they had a go at them but didn't realize they put so much effort into it .thank you

    • @touringweapon8651
      @touringweapon8651 Год назад +4

      We have not developed the automotive industry for a very long time and the quality of oil in the USSR left much to be desired. With a strong unification of vehicles, it was simply impossible to contain a rotary engine.
      sry for my english, im used google translate

    • @Chappomusic
      @Chappomusic Год назад +4

      @@touringweapon8651the former USSR has a very interesting history !

  • @blox4513
    @blox4513 Год назад +21

    I guess it´s more likely that the Soviets reverse engineered the rotary engine from an NSU Ro80, a German mid-size sedan from the late sixties.

  • @aussieausdeutschland4245
    @aussieausdeutschland4245 Год назад +47

    Great little motors, but I never knew about the Soviet ones.
    Cheers for another great informative video.

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад +4

      Very unreliable and inefficient Motors, obsolete technology

    • @kzarnold3678
      @kzarnold3678 Год назад

      I also thought it was just Mazda that used them in the automotive industry. I've heard about motorcycles and lawn mowers with rotary engines and even seen some you tubers getting a hold of those industrial single rotary and making go-carts or drift trikes

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад

      @@kzarnold3678 Mazda was not the first NSU-Wankel licensee to begin development or production.
      Mazda was restricted by the terms of its license agreement to only develop and sell engines for automobiles less than 200 hp.

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад

      @@kzarnold3678 Aircraft engine manufacturer Curtiss-Wright was the first Wankel licensee followed by motorcycle, ATV and power tool company Fichtel Sachs, and Yanmar, manufacturers of marine, tractor and power tool engines.

  • @mikehotchkiss8975
    @mikehotchkiss8975 Год назад +13

    That was a stretch. Well into the dark underside of engine strangeness. Great clip

  • @SomcallmejameS
    @SomcallmejameS Год назад +22

    gotta love some Visio Racer with the morning coffee 😊

    • @pimmanders2261
      @pimmanders2261 Год назад +4

      Or at diner, depending on where you live....😁

    • @fidelcatsro6948
      @fidelcatsro6948 Год назад +1

      my cat loves u too! 🐱♥️♥️♥️

  • @boyarin2269
    @boyarin2269 Год назад +15

    also we had some prototypes of rotary bikes, with completely different domestically engineered engines...And read about Vostok S-565 bike...and yeah, in the 90s rotary ladas were sold in small numbers. so this was beyond KGB. It was used by kgb as a result of failure of mass production because of engine and available oils quality - but it was fine for small series usage. and this V8 is NOT a cast iron engine,it's fully aluminium

    • @WhyAreYouMakingMeSad
      @WhyAreYouMakingMeSad Год назад +1

      Aluminum block, aluminum sleeves, aluminum heads. it was an innovation

  • @infernoking7504
    @infernoking7504 Год назад +15

    Vaz-311 has more hp and torque then engine displacement which is impressive.

  • @timtim8468
    @timtim8468 Год назад +5

    Consumer cars of the GDR just used two stroke engines, the Trabant, and the more expensive Wartburg, and fitted with the same engine, the Barkas van. Small, cheap, light engines with sufficient power. In the early 80s, it was planned to replace these with Volkswagen engines. It happened just before the reunification of Germany. Production ended soon, 4 stroke versions of the cars mentioned are rare.

  • @lescrooge
    @lescrooge Год назад +4

    Great video. very well done. cheers from South Africa

  • @thx54
    @thx54 Год назад +30

    Just came home from a drive with my RX-8 and watched your video 😄 115‘000 km no problems yet 😁

    • @VisioRacer
      @VisioRacer  Год назад +15

      Long live the rotary!

    • @thx54
      @thx54 Год назад +4

      @@VisioRacerYes! Long live the Rotary! ♻️❤

    • @fidelcatsro6948
      @fidelcatsro6948 Год назад +1

      must be the fully synthetic castrol 2 stroke motorcycle oil

    • @davidhusband5022
      @davidhusband5022 Год назад +4

      my rx8 had 198,000 kms on it, still going, original engine.

    • @thx54
      @thx54 Год назад +5

      @@davidhusband5022i drove again and i watched wrong my RX-8 has 119‘000 km 😁 im confident to drive it much longer

  • @technicbuilder6410
    @technicbuilder6410 Год назад

    Russian civilian: "why does that black Vaz sound different than mine?"
    KGB: "all Vazs sound exactly the same"

  • @Tom-wl9sx
    @Tom-wl9sx Год назад +4

    Always some new and interesting information, well done 👍🙂

  • @cosmo_daft
    @cosmo_daft Год назад +2

    Thank you for your work, comrade!)) Спасибо!

  • @BoostWorx
    @BoostWorx Год назад +2

    This channel always impresses me every time. My favourite channel by far ❤❤❤❤

  • @vidasm1702
    @vidasm1702 Год назад +3

    The 5,5 cast Iron v8 you are talking about which was in volga and chaika was all aluminium

  • @bobhill3941
    @bobhill3941 Год назад +14

    Very, very, interesting, another great, well researched video where I learn something new every Saturday morning. I would've never guessed the Soviets would've been interested in Felix Wankel's design!
    Keep up the great work.

    • @rzhevsky4934
      @rzhevsky4934 Год назад +3

      Почему "советы" не должны были заинтересоваться разработкой Ванкеля?😅 В комментарии чувствуется сильное действие западной идеологической обработки.

    • @bobhill3941
      @bobhill3941 Год назад

      @@rzhevsky4934 I was just as surprised that GM, NSU, and Mazda were interested in the concept, I wasn't singling anyone out. Why put Soviets in quotes? Russia was part of the Soviet Union at that time.

    • @rzhevsky4934
      @rzhevsky4934 Год назад

      @@bobhill3941 OK, значит дело в неточности перевода...

    • @bobhill3941
      @bobhill3941 Год назад

      @@rzhevsky4934 Yes it is, and that happens sometimes.

    • @WilhelmKarsten
      @WilhelmKarsten Год назад +2

      ​@@bobhill3941NSU invented the Wankel KKM57
      Mazda licensed it from NSU now Audi

  • @niketugov
    @niketugov Год назад +5

    6:47 engines on gaz - 13,14 were never cast iron (aluminium heads and block)

  • @Pelleministeri
    @Pelleministeri Год назад +2

    Great stuff! Thank you!

  • @michaelguerin56
    @michaelguerin56 Год назад +2

    Interesting video. Thank you.

  • @elvine2149
    @elvine2149 Год назад +3

    The fun facts is that the Lada Samara with Rotary engine was pretended to run in Group B rally but the group B ended...

  • @pauljanssen7594
    @pauljanssen7594 Год назад +21

    One reason why the rotary engine was horrible on gas is the combustion chamber designed, but if you converted it to propane all the propane would be burned up; they have to make a little bit bigger combustion chamber in rotor.

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад +9

      That is false, Wankel engines operate very poorly on gaseous fuels like Propane and hydrogen, they also lack the higher static compression ratios needed to extract the energy from gas fuel efficiently.

    • @WilhelmKarsten
      @WilhelmKarsten Год назад +4

      Please do not post false and misleading comments on a topic that you are clearly not qualified to discuss.
      The optimal fuel for Wankel engines has always been gasoline.
      Wankel engines are proven to be less efficient and unsuitable for alternative fuels

    • @Colt45hatchback
      @Colt45hatchback Год назад

      While i have no personal experience, an old man who lived nearby to me when i was a kid had an autocross car, a mazda rx4 sedan running on lpg/propane, it also had the 'upper cylinder lubricant' injection system from a piston engined lpg car, but he used to put two stroke oil in it instead. That already old and neglected rx4 spent every weekend thrashing around autocross tracks right up untill 2009 without the engine being rebuilt, it only got replaced with a mazda mx5 once the rx4 was worth enough money that even in its rusty, beat up but mechanically still running state, it was then worth more than a stock na mx5, so he sold it and got an na mx5.
      He said the secret to its reliability was to start it in the morning and not turn it off till you were ready to put it back on the trailer in the evening. It was quite smokey when i last saw it. But it did still start relatively easily.

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад

      @@Colt45hatchback Sounds like a batty old crackpot... sounds like the silly nonsense that happens in backwards country

  • @audriusbaranauskas6227
    @audriusbaranauskas6227 Год назад +38

    The Soviet union IS like the Wankel engine - it's good while it's working, but then bucke up! Great video!

    • @Gr8thxAlot
      @Gr8thxAlot Год назад +2

      Of all designs to steal, they choose the rotary with all its inherit problems.

  • @NameDDD
    @NameDDD Год назад +1

    0:09 - in USSR there were NO powerfull cars. People drove only Lada, MOSKVICH, ZAZ and Volga. Such cars as Mercedes or Buick owned only some Soviet famous sportsmans or artists.

  • @l0I0I0I0
    @l0I0I0I0 Год назад +3

    Interesting! Ty

  • @josega6338
    @josega6338 Год назад +10

    USSR had stolen Wankel patents? For sure, you need a license for series production, but this is perhaps not so sure for prototyping.
    Patents expiry date is 20 years after publication.
    NSU patents of the unpractical original motor by Felix Wankel came around 1957...
    Wankel RCE has enough with an 80 RON fuel.
    Blessings +

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад +2

      No, East German company IFA became a NSU-Wankel licensee in 1965

    • @josega6338
      @josega6338 Год назад

      ​@@sandervanderkammen9230 Well, even if DDR was under USSR surveillance, the 'Einheit' day a group of Germans, drunk with beer, assaulted the soviet political police in Dresden, Putin, in command of that police station, went out, and shot in the air with a pistol. DDR no longer existed, the political police office of Putin was illegal, this was an attack to the sovereign German Federal State, but attempt of NATO to build a puppet state in Ukraine, and seize Sebastopol, the russian Pearl Harbor, is worse.
      Soviets may have purchased a Wankel license, but East Germany and soviet companies are different.
      License to russians is not license to East Germans, but Lada could contract development of their Wankel license with Germans.
      Statement that Wankel license was stolen is an slander, specially as no series production of Wankel seems existed in USSR.
      Blessings +

    • @WilhelmKarsten
      @WilhelmKarsten Год назад

      ​@@josega6338Much in the same way Northern Ireland is not an independent country East Germany was a territory that was part of Russia under the USSR government.

    • @josega6338
      @josega6338 Год назад

      ​@@WilhelmKarsten Northern Ireland is a part of Irish land seized by britons, UK is a nation having too many peculiarities, they had a woman as head of church, 'bishopess', banned in Saint Paul letters.
      The anglican church killed more catholic, for religious reasons, several hundred, than nazis in Poland, 108, and is very dubious reason for executions in Poland was purely religious; giving help to an enemy during a war is a criminal offense everytime, everyplace.
      In the conflict of Thomas Beckett with UK civilian authority, the King, in last times, the only disagreement Beckett kept was the church having the right to judge common criminal offenses by clergymen.
      Stupid, and against all law principles.
      Beckett was wrong.
      When UK joined EU, they were forced to derogate the british rules about contracts of sailors in merchant ships, it was considered some kind of slavery.
      I'd say 'Brexit' came from the desire of british industrials and traders to get rid of laws they thought reduced their competitivity, also not to give Europeans a control on them, felt as a reduction in sovereignty.
      Their choice of 'solo economy' is not viable; simply, they are on their shortcut to bankruptcy, today, no way back.
      Ukraine is part of Russia, that was founded there, Kiev is to Russia what Covadonga is to. Spain.
      Zelenski was criminal from start, they could never win the war against Russia, with or without the KGB agent Putin in Moscow, with or without the hebrew loans to purchase weapons elsewhere, same as protection to Zyon, the US govt debt will be filled in with loans, hebrew, in a monopoly financial business situation, instead of paying US armed forces for protection, will get money from US to cover debt.
      Devilish absurd!
      Being fed up of being misspised, zyonists claim.
      There are two serious hurdles to peace and development there: Holodomor Zelenski, he deserves execution, as Germans attempted Killing Adolf Hitler; and the temple of Lenin in Moscow.
      Sebastopol is the Russian equivalent to Pearl Harbor. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was not an State in USA.
      Northern Ireland is a land seized with tirany and held with despotism, Ireland will go back to the Irish for the simple reason republican catholics have more kids than lutheran unionists, in the end they'll win elections.

    • @АртурАгафонов-ш3ц
      @АртурАгафонов-ш3ц Год назад +2

      no stolen, but USSR bought patents

  • @LeonmitchelliGalette
    @LeonmitchelliGalette Год назад +4

    The country that by that time had developed industry and engineering. It had a history of creating any kind of engine. Sophisticated radial engines, oposite engines, all sorts of configurations of two and four-stroke engines. Jet engines of all types, from airplane engines to tank engines. There were experiments on atomic engines and hydrogen engines. Various electric motors of all colors and sizes were used in industry. Sophisticated rocket engines were being developed and built.
    And then comes the concept of a simple internal combustion engine - well, no, of course they stole it, reverse-engineered it and copied it!

    • @rzhevsky4934
      @rzhevsky4934 Год назад +3

      Что поделать, британская пропаганда...

  • @theposguy1435
    @theposguy1435 Год назад

    That's incredible... thank you for the video

  • @joehoover7711
    @joehoover7711 Год назад +1

    @visioracer hey did you or anyone notice at 8:09 there is a FKN huge meter wide rotary there putting an eccentric shaft in. Literally a rotor. Meter wide.... We need info!!!!!!!!

    • @WilhelmKarsten
      @WilhelmKarsten Год назад +2

      INGERSOLL-RAND pipeline compressor engine

  • @jacksrandomadventures2769
    @jacksrandomadventures2769 Год назад +7

    "check out my engine.."
    ......."our engine"

  • @dunsbroccoli2588
    @dunsbroccoli2588 Год назад +1

    Who needs torque or reliability when it sounds cool

  • @daledavies2334
    @daledavies2334 Год назад +3

    When a company or country does not aquire a licencing agreement they must aquire an example product to reverse engineer. So the Soviets likely had someone purchase a Mazda rotary car or an engine from a wrecking yard. The problem with not perchasing licensing agreements you have to guess what makes it work. In this they got cheap and used cast iron rotor housings. These were heavy and did not wear well like the Mazda housings with a cast in steel.liner in the aluminium housing with a hard chrome plating. I do not think they got the apex seal material correct either.
    They also tried them in a twin amphibious aircraft for a short time, but engine life was poor.

    • @WilhelmKarsten
      @WilhelmKarsten Год назад +5

      The East German company IDA was an official Wankel-NSU licensee

  • @PapiDoesIt
    @PapiDoesIt Год назад +1

    I had no idea these were ever produced in the USSR.

  • @StellarGale
    @StellarGale Год назад +1

    Small correction tho, ZMZ 5.5 V8 was cast aluminum, not iron

  • @Ian-bq7gp
    @Ian-bq7gp 7 месяцев назад

    The cr700 motorbike gives 240 bhp. Weighs 120kg. So fast and done by Brian Crighton the genius who made those 588cc norton rotarys that raced with great success including winning the british superbike serirs around 1990

  • @JohnnyAFG81
    @JohnnyAFG81 Год назад +3

    Nothing surprises me any more with the Soviet Union. Those rotaries would have not lived long in the subzero temperatures!

  • @Antanix
    @Antanix Год назад +1

    You forgot two Soviet Wankel motorcycles - VNII-Motoprom/Dnepr and Izh Vega.

  • @fungo6631
    @fungo6631 Год назад +6

    Rotary engines get significant reliability improvements if you run them with two stroke fuel.

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад

      That is completely false and a blatant lie.
      Wankel engines are inherently unreliable and are less durable than reciprocating engines.
      Nothing you can do will change this fact.

  • @igostupidfast3
    @igostupidfast3 Год назад +1

    Finally a video on Soviet Wankels

  • @nathandevine552
    @nathandevine552 Год назад

    I seem to remember a little reservoir for antifreeze something to do with cold starts?

  • @mzossi3334
    @mzossi3334 Год назад +1

    In the GDR MZ built an Wankel Motorbike Engine,but only as Prototyp Yo can see it in the MZ Museum Castle Augustusburg Near Chemnitz/Saxon/Germany.

  • @P7777-u7r
    @P7777-u7r Год назад +1

    Western oils couldn't even do 10,000km between oil changes back then not even in regular piston engines. I don't know if the USSR had lower quality engine oil

  • @AZACKAL
    @AZACKAL Год назад

    Helped me win a car of the day hint game in one my car groups. Said car of the day tomorrow is a rotary and isnt Japanese or German and imidiatly thought to this video and i was right lol😂

  • @wiegraf9009
    @wiegraf9009 Год назад +1

    Rotary engine in a helicopter is a very funny idea

    • @Damien.D
      @Damien.D Год назад +3

      After failing with the M35 prototype car, after failing with the GS "birotor" production car, Citroen built an helicopter too, that was not allowed to fly because it was so unreliable.
      Then they filled for bankruptcy XD

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад

      It's a very, very bad idea.
      Wankel engines are inherently unreliable and are simply too dangerous to use in aircraft.

  • @fidelcatsro6948
    @fidelcatsro6948 Год назад

    sounds like a Yamaha 2stroke dirt bike on 4wheels and a roof!

  • @francotirador7265
    @francotirador7265 Год назад +1

    I'd like to see a Rotary Diesel. Is it possible ?

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 Год назад +2

      I don't think the effective compression ratio required would be possible.

    • @Buzdu22
      @Buzdu22 Год назад +1

      Rolls-Royce apparently built diesel Wankels... RR gave up on the rotary, same as all but Mazda

    • @fidelcatsro6948
      @fidelcatsro6948 Год назад

      sure you can!

    • @user-wn3ww5lw5j
      @user-wn3ww5lw5j Год назад

      These things aren’t event reliable as petrol 😂

    • @TheLaXandro
      @TheLaXandro Год назад

      Wankels' compression is fundamentally limited by rotor geometry. A piston engine can have infinite compression if it wants to, but a wankel can not, and even if it could, wankels' core issue are the seals.

  • @joehoover7711
    @joehoover7711 Год назад

    @robdahm yo bro.... Check out 8:09. Its a meter wide rotor and 5ft eccentric shaft!!!!!

  • @AnyoneSeenMikeHunt
    @AnyoneSeenMikeHunt Год назад +1

    A Dorito spinning in a Peanut. Worst sounding engine ever made.

  • @АгронДепартье
    @АгронДепартье Год назад

    But did they register the patent in Eastern Block ? No patent, no license...

  • @WhyAreYouMakingMeSad
    @WhyAreYouMakingMeSad 6 месяцев назад

    Хочу сделать замечание, блок двигателя змз v8 5.5 был отлит из Алюминия не из чугуна. Единственное что там было чугунное это гильзы.

  • @fabssgarage
    @fabssgarage Год назад

    Howveva...I didn't know the Samara got 140bhp! Always thought it was 120. Cheers

  • @awdrifter3394
    @awdrifter3394 Год назад

    They should bring it back. Make a rotary that uses natural gas since now they can't sell that to the EU.
    4:39 12k miles rebuild sounds about right? Because the early rotary are basically like a 2 stroke engine right, they need to use premixed gas for lubrication.

    • @WilhelmKarsten
      @WilhelmKarsten Год назад

      WHY? the Wankel engine is obsolete technology.
      Wankel engines cannot support the higher static compression ratio needed to run on Natural gas efficiently.
      All Wankel engines operate using the 4-stroke principle, oil injection is superior to premixing

  • @tomaszdudek8090
    @tomaszdudek8090 Год назад

    Lepienie cegieł.
    To szacunek do życia.
    Tak w życiu jest.
    Ślubowanie w drugiej kolejności.Dzięki Bogu.

  • @markrich3271
    @markrich3271 Год назад

    My first car was a 83 rx7 wow that's one I wish I kept

  • @chuckselvage3157
    @chuckselvage3157 Год назад

    Those things would rev so hard they even tried to market a Holden Kingswood in Japan with a Wankel engine 😂 it was called the Roadmaster or something like that.

  • @gingernutpreacher
    @gingernutpreacher Год назад

    They just make lada Riva's wheel spin monsters. Sticking genuine Webber carb's or even 40's dcoe or a single 45 shared between the 4 cilnders would of been better

  • @Oberon_Boost
    @Oberon_Boost Год назад +5

    USSR stole wankel for KGB? Seriously?
    USSR did a first flight to space.

  • @pauliewalnuts240
    @pauliewalnuts240 Год назад +4

    "We will waste no rubles inventing new technology. Instead, we copy design from other countries"
    The soviet motto

  • @ladanivadriver1578
    @ladanivadriver1578 Год назад

    If only I could find one or a fiat 2.0 twin cam lol

  • @NotSanakan
    @NotSanakan Год назад

    Ха, у коллеги как раз "догоняйка" таким двигателем. Вжаривает будь здоров.

  • @Gulitize
    @Gulitize Год назад

    is the sound mixing always so bad, I know that sound is a big appeal, but the badly mixed audio makes the video unwatchable for me.

  • @ИванДунин-т7и
    @ИванДунин-т7и Год назад

    Why u think kgb is not the part of japan, europe and usa?

  • @andyharman3022
    @andyharman3022 Год назад +2

    7:27 Great Soviet thinking: If you have an unsuccessful car engine, just make it an aircraft engine! No danger there.
    The engine was obviously a ripoff of Mazda's engine.

    • @Damien.D
      @Damien.D Год назад

      Citroen did the very same before, after failing at producing a wankel powered car, they've built an helicopter that was legally not allowed to fly.

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад

      Mazda purchased the technology from NSU Motorenwerke GmbH.
      Who invented the Wankel KKM design

    • @andyharman3022
      @andyharman3022 Год назад

      @@sandervanderkammen9230 Mazda's first successful engine was basically a scaled-down Curtiss-Wright RC2-60. Curtiss-Wright was Wankel's first licensee in 1958.

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад

      @@andyharman3022 No, Mazda became a NSU-Wankel KKM57 licensee in 1960.
      Mazdas first Wankel engine was the NSU KKM400 (Mazda 400 [ aka 40A ])

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад

      @@andyharman3022 The RC2-60 is a massive 6.0 liter engine (tax displacement 2.0 liters same as the Mazda 20B)
      Mazda's 400 (40A) was a tiny 2.3 liter (772cc's tax displacement)
      Same as the NSU KKM400.

  • @capnemo6576
    @capnemo6576 Год назад +1

    Americans still.
    Russians buying.

  • @mikethespike7579
    @mikethespike7579 Год назад

    Using the word "liquidated" for a former soviet company sounds a bit too ominous for my tastes.

  • @markrix
    @markrix Год назад

    A revolution? Pun intended? 😂

  • @Damien.D
    @Damien.D Год назад +2

    Never knew soviets jumped on this farting boondoggle of an engine, following the madman path of Citroen (which also produced an helicopter that was so unreliable it was not allowed to fly).

    • @KitKitChanIsaac
      @KitKitChanIsaac Год назад +3

      Hater detected

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад

      ​@@KitKitChanIsaac*Rotard detected*

    • @KitKitChanIsaac
      @KitKitChanIsaac Год назад

      @@sandervanderkammen9230 Respect the rotary.

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад +2

      @@KitKitChanIsaac FYI: the Wankel engine is inherently unreliable, obsolete technology and the biggest failure in the history of the engine manufacturing industry

    • @WilhelmKarsten
      @WilhelmKarsten Год назад

      Wankel engines are so horribly unreliable that the cannot be used in any certified passenger aircraft.

  • @marklittle8805
    @marklittle8805 Год назад +2

    Until this day I had no idea the USSR had Rotary Engines. It isn't a shocker that a) they stole it and B) had issues with Apex seals and the poorer quality fuel

    • @rzhevsky4934
      @rzhevsky4934 Год назад +3

      А что такого? Когда у нас воровали изобретения, это никому не казалось ужасным

    • @marklittle8805
      @marklittle8805 Год назад

      @@rzhevsky4934 what inventions? As for stolen, when is that ever right?

    • @rzhevsky4934
      @rzhevsky4934 Год назад

      @@marklittle8805 например, лампу накаливания изобрёл инженер Лодыгин в 1870 году, однако в англоязычных странах автором считается Эдисон. В России все, кто по профессии связан с электротехникой знает об изобретении Лодыгина, однако на Западе скрывают эту информацию от людей. Подобных примеров множество; большинство открытий и разработок, которые вы считаете "своими", создали люди из совершенно других стран

    • @otofoto
      @otofoto Год назад

      ​@@marklittle8805 France stole Concorde 😂

  • @Michael-it6gb
    @Michael-it6gb Год назад

    2004 was no longer Soviet Union, dude.

  • @ThePontiacgto65
    @ThePontiacgto65 Год назад +1

    VisioRacer you are a spy for having so much data on all types of engines 😁Maybe they also copied the Citroën M35 version and especially the twin rotor GS but the powers without turbo seem very important perhaps an exaggeration for Soviet propaganda

    • @Senezhperformance
      @Senezhperformance Год назад

      How could they use specs of militia-special cars for propaganda lol

  • @Pierredorado300
    @Pierredorado300 Год назад

    I used to have a RX-7 1981 with the 12A engine.. loved that car man!

  • @Xayuap
    @Xayuap Год назад

    no, thank you 1:58

  • @PaulG.x
    @PaulG.x Год назад +3

    The general public didn't generally have cars in the USSR . in 1985 private vehicle ownership was 45 cars per 1000 people

  • @kolyak49
    @kolyak49 Год назад +2

    Чувак, советский союз первым запустил спутник на орбиту, первым запустил и приземлил животное и человека, первые фото обратной стороны луны сделал, спустил туда луноход, на Венеру дрон спустил, космическую станцию на околоземную орбиту запустил и запустил дрон на Марс. Это было государство которое могло все. 40% самолетов в небе были советского производства. Роторный двигатель делали сами. Идея ничего не стоит. Решает исполнение.

    • @otofoto
      @otofoto Год назад

      And stole Concorde to be first.
      But never managed to produce toilet paper or decent cars 😂

  • @TakanashiAme
    @TakanashiAme Год назад

    Les mecs ont volé Wankil pour le KGB, quelle triste époque

  • @infernoking7504
    @infernoking7504 Год назад +2

    Wanker engines is what I call them.

  • @JohnSmith-lf4be
    @JohnSmith-lf4be Год назад

    They sabotaged themselves

  • @zer00rdie
    @zer00rdie Год назад

    Sovjet Engineering, steal everything, then make an half arsed effort to replicate.

  • @stevenkerry3101
    @stevenkerry3101 Год назад +1

    they burn out tips and use engine oil nice vid 👍👍

    • @fidelcatsro6948
      @fidelcatsro6948 Год назад +1

      16litres to 100km and a lifespan of 50,000km if you lucky

  • @atlanko1
    @atlanko1 Год назад

    Just as Wankel drew it, Mazda and Autovaz produced it. Many dimensions are common on these engines, even interchangeable parts. However, Mazda went ahead and tried to solve the seals. So claim who developed the engine - wankel

    • @WilhelmKarsten
      @WilhelmKarsten Год назад

      Felix Wankel hated this inferior engine, the KKM57 was designed by Hanns Paschke and Walter Frode.
      All 26 manufacturers licensed the KKM57 from _NSU Motornwerkes GmbH_ they all received the same data package and sample engines.

  • @AHotkovo
    @AHotkovo Год назад

    Like from Russia

  • @traxtortibidoxtor8032
    @traxtortibidoxtor8032 Год назад

    Интересно)

  • @Huiok-k4p
    @Huiok-k4p Год назад

    Я работаю в КГБ у нас такие сашины

  • @vladimirnaydyonov
    @vladimirnaydyonov Год назад

    *Зачем КГБ такие моторы и такие автомобили❓🤔*

  • @Iowa599
    @Iowa599 Год назад +2

    I'm suprised they didn't take Felix Wankel.

  • @hyper8545
    @hyper8545 Год назад

    Were they to poor to turbo them tho 😅😅😅

  • @ahtheh
    @ahtheh Год назад

    Dorito

  • @ZokiDobrojevic
    @ZokiDobrojevic 11 месяцев назад

    Да . И Руси су усавршили ротакс мотор . Од ванкеловог мотора остала је само концепција мотора .
    Сада уместо овалног цилиндра и троугластог клипа има овални клип .
    Тиме су побољшани многи недостаци ванкел мотора .

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 11 месяцев назад

      Rotax GmbH. is a formerly German company (Sachs) now based in Austria..

  • @tirebiter1680
    @tirebiter1680 Год назад

    They could have it!

  • @andrewsmart2949
    @andrewsmart2949 Год назад

    i wonder if eamon hurley knew about the soviet 3 and 4 rotor engines when he started making them from 12A's he had from converting NSU's to 4cyl engines,he nearly died when his rotor powered drag race motorcycle crashed

  • @100pyatt
    @100pyatt Год назад +1

    Liquid Piston has a Far Far better design than the Mazda Wankel

    • @WilhelmKarsten
      @WilhelmKarsten Год назад

      Beware of LiquidPiston it is not a legitimate company and is a investment scam

  • @AnyoneSeenMikeHunt
    @AnyoneSeenMikeHunt Год назад +1

    Why do people call the Wankel a rotary engine? Look at old planes, a rotary is an entirely different thing.

    • @SuperMatiz
      @SuperMatiz Год назад +1

      in polish can be heard term "silnik gwiazdowy" ("star engine", but looks like it have to be translated "radial engine")

    • @AnyoneSeenMikeHunt
      @AnyoneSeenMikeHunt Год назад +1

      @@SuperMatiz Radial and Rotary engines look the same almost, they way they function is what's different.

    • @chrisridethatbloodything2044
      @chrisridethatbloodything2044 Год назад +2

      In german it's "Wankel" or "Kreiskolben" (circle-piston)
      A rotary engine is a "Sternmotor" (star-engine)
      ;-)

    • @WilhelmKarsten
      @WilhelmKarsten Год назад

      ​​@@chrisridethatbloodything2044Wrong
      _Sternmotor_ means RADIAL
      _Umlaufmotor_ is the German word for ROTARY engine

  • @rjung_ch
    @rjung_ch Год назад

    👍💪✌

  • @donaldshidal851
    @donaldshidal851 Год назад

    A stolen Japanese engine design in a faux Fiat: brilliant

  • @kobusdutoitbosman6240
    @kobusdutoitbosman6240 Год назад

    Not good…⁉️👊🔥

  • @festungkurland9804
    @festungkurland9804 Год назад

    LMAO, NOW WE KNOW WHY THE SOVIET UNION FAILED BBC FER LIFE GOBBLESS