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Old 02-11-2011, 06:11 PM   #10 (permalink)
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The Red Baron - '00 Ford F-350 XLT
90 day: 27.99 mpg (US)

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Two stroke, direct injection, uses a supercharger for scavenging rather than bottom of the piston, no need to mix oil and fuel.

You just described a 6-71 Detroit Diesel. Same thing with opposed pistons is a Fairbanks-Morse diesel. Detroits had a high power-to-weight ratio as diesels go. F-Ms will run on anything remotely oily. Neither was particularly clean.
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