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Topic: six stroke gasoline/water engine. Pretty cool! (Read 270 times)
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Chris Evrard -76 Cordoba, 360 4bbl -68 Valiant, 273 2bbl -73 Dart, /6 1bbl, Leaning Tower of Power!!!  |
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neat article! thanks a ton for that.
was sort of hoping for a diagram or cutaway view...but that would be sorta dumb considering it could be worth a fortune
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Very interesting.
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So what happens??? Water is injected into the hot cyl. after the power stroke, expands to steam and pushes the piston down again...is that it???
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ValiantOne
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neat article! thanks a ton for that.
was sort of hoping for a diagram or cutaway view...but that would be sorta dumb considering it could be worth a fortune
Yeah I searched the web for more in depth info and didn't find too much. Can't wait to see how it develops. |
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Chris Evrard -76 Cordoba, 360 4bbl -68 Valiant, 273 2bbl -73 Dart, /6 1bbl, Leaning Tower of Power!!! |
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ValiantOne
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So what happens??? Water is injected into the hot cyl. after the power stroke, expands to steam and pushes the piston down again...is that it???
Yep. doesn't start water injection until the cylinder reaches 400*, runs for 30 seconds without water on shutdown to evaporate any excess water, and will even condense and reuse the water over and over. |
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Chris Evrard -76 Cordoba, 360 4bbl -68 Valiant, 273 2bbl -73 Dart, /6 1bbl, Leaning Tower of Power!!! |
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satellite65
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Smokey Yunick was messin around with something like that in the '70s. Maybe a little different but same concept, trying to reclaim the wasted heat energy.
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i remember that article with Smokey Yunick.
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If the big 3 were smart, they would do it. They passed on the rotary engine in the 70's and look how Mazda is doing. I would hate for any overseas automaker to get it..........
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Smokey Yunick was messin around with something like that in the '70s. Maybe a little different but same concept, trying to reclaim the wasted heat energy.
Apparently Crower worked with Yunick on one of the Indy cars in the 60's Bunch of neat guys! |
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Chris Evrard -76 Cordoba, 360 4bbl -68 Valiant, 273 2bbl -73 Dart, /6 1bbl, Leaning Tower of Power!!! |
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abqdart
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I have a Crower cam in my Big Block.....  |
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Funny, just watched an old Top Gear show from the UK about the 6 stroke motor and that was from 1991. It used a seperate small piston to send the steam to the main power piston, so it didn't work that great. Never heard of a 6 stroke motor before watching the show.
Will have to read up on what Smokey Yunick was doing. Remember watching a show about one of his cars, think it was a Fiero, but didn't go into to much detail.
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Smokey Yunick was messin around with something like that in the '70s. Maybe a little different but same concept, trying to reclaim the wasted heat energy.
Apparently Crower worked with Yunick on one of the Indy cars in the 60's Bunch of neat guys! Yes, and just regular, old fashioned, greasy hands-n-scraped knuckles mechanics. No "stuffed shirt" engineers here. Funny, just watched an old Top Gear show from the UK about the 6 stroke motor and that was from 1991. It used a seperate small piston to send the steam to the main power piston, so it didn't work that great. Never heard of a 6 stroke motor before watching the show.
Will have to read up on what Smokey Yunick was doing. Remember watching a show about one of his cars, think it was a Fiero, but didn't go into to much detail.
In the article I was refering to he was using a Volkswagon Rabbit with some sort of 3 cylinder engine |
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