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rotary mounted on its side?

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Peterson

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St.Rober, MO
If one were to use a dry sump oil system and use pre-mix fuel, do you think a rotary could be mounted spark plugs down? With the exhausts ports on top it would be easy to get a lot of heat out from under the cowling and it would be simple to build an intake. This profile is more similar to the opposed piston engine. Eventually I'd like to try to cast an air cooled case out of aluminum that would use 13B internal parts that would benefit more from this layout, but are there any issues that would make turning a rotary on its side less than ideal?
 
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