On Feb 2, 2:32 pm, Athol <athol_SPIT_S...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> the_dawggie <the_dawg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 8 cylinder engines don' t really
> > make sense.
>
> They do, actually.
>
> > Four is enough,
>
> Four or less is seriously compromised. The end of one cylinder's
> effective power output (where there's not enough pressure to keep
> pu****ng the crank around) occurs before BDC. The next cylinder's
> power starts around TDC. With a 4-cyl, that means that the engine
> coasts between power from one cylinder ending and the next starting,
> *every time*. Achieving overlap between power output from one
You are thinking SI, not CI. Things are a bit different. You are not
hitting the piston with a hammer, but pu****ng it down like a coffee
plunger.
> cylinder to the next to make more effective and efficient maximum
> power is achieved by having enough cylinders to avoid the coasting
> in between.
> 4-cyl engines are, by definition, inherently poorly balanced and
> rough *economy* engines.
Agreed, in SI form.
> > make them large, and turbo
> > the engine. And use a diesel
> > engine, or did I say that.
>
> It doesn't matter how many times you say it, it will never be true.
When you see a little 6 litre turbo diesel straight six do what
it did, I doubt your V8 would be in the running.
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