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The Wankel engine is a type of internal combustion engine. In which it uses 3 main components rotors, housings/plates, and an eccentric shaft. The eccentric shaft or lobe goes straight thru the middle of the rotors, which rotate the rotors, which look like triangles. The two rotors are separated by plates and enclosed by housings, which basically closes up the internals to the motor. As the eccentric shaft moves the rotors a four-stroke cycle takes place inside the enclosed motor. As the rotors spin, each chamber on the 3 sides of the “triangle” spinning inside the motor has their own task. Air/fuel mixture is inhaled into the engine by the intake port as the rotor keeps spinning. The next phase is the mixture gets compressed and when it finally makes its way to the spark plugs and the spark plugs spark it ignites the compressed mixture, which builds up pressure quickly forcing the rotor to move even faster which creates power. Just after the spark plugs ignites and moves the rotor the next phase it lets the combustion gases out the exhaust port, which is basically the end of the cycle since the exhaust ports lead to your exhaust, and out the vehicle. So basically each phase is happening at the same time one right after another however the shaft spins three times for every complete revolution for the rotor. • On a side note if you want a better idea to see how the engine works visually you can grab a straw and loop it so that its enclosed looking like a circle/oval shape. Then grab a Dorito chip, since it looks like a triangle, and put it in the closed looped straw and rotate the Dorito and that’s how the internal of the Wankel engine works.