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Old 11-03-2009, 03:19 PM   #11 (permalink)
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(Thinking of a Wankel's wipers/seals.).
The Wankel was the first thing I thought of when I looked at the illustration. It looks to be a quasi two-stroke quasi-turbine type of thing, much the way I view the Wankel engine.

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Old 11-03-2009, 03:40 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I personally wouldn't categorize a wankel as a two stroke, it sucks and squeezes and bangs and blows like a 4 stroke (you can follow the air charge clockwise from the upper right).

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