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Old 05-04-2011, 04:01 AM   #3 (permalink)
phunky.buddha
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Without clicking through to the links- just from an engineer's perspective- it would be a VERY bad idea to just cut fuel to one or two cylinders. You don't want to upset the balance of your engine like that. Cutting 1 cylinder out of 4 if you're talking about the Prelude in your profile would mean something like this:

1 - 3 - 4 - 2 <-- normal firing order

1 - 3 - x - 2 <-- really lumpy

It would feel like your laundry machine with a huge weight stuck on one side during the spin cycle... which in an engine means lots of vibration -> dead bearings -> oops I need a crankshaft. Or something along those lines.
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