Norton proper Wankel twin rotor engine had its inlets via the rotors... Didn't save them...
Apart from winning a few races on the Isle of Man TT in a ""favourable"" category, it went nowhere...
Not enough sales = high costs = bankruptcy down the line...
LP cost of $30,000 for a 70cc, just imagine what it will cost you for one big rotor, never mind the debugging and engineering costs to reliably link 6 together plus all the hardware around!!!
I work in the field of water treatment... Every year, most Utilities Big Boys spent huge amounts on various ""pie in the sky"" projects in the knowledge that forty nine and a half will fail miserably BUT maybe half of one can be made to work at huge cost and will give them an edge in 10 years time over their competitors... It's called R&D...
This LP stuff looks very much R&D to me
... And
tax deductible for those that keep LP alive via their investment, otherwise no progress cause there's no way it would get done.
Good luck to you on the tax deductible bit!!!
At one stage in your study, you'll have to stop firing with all barrels in all directions and focus on what's important to you and what will have to come 1st... Aero?, power?, traction?, packaging?... Then admit that the 2nd, 3rd, etc.. will have to be bog std so you can concentrate time, effort and most of the cost on the 1st goal.Then once proved, go to 2nd item on the list, etc...
I don't know when the Summers Brothers started their Bonneville career, but it was in the fifties... Then at least ten years of high/hard graft to get to the point where they astonished the world and this writer then aged 15...
Patrick