Thread: 6 stroke engine
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Old 01-25-2012, 05:07 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Sounds fairly plausible, the problem I see would be that it would have to run like a normal 4 stroke untill the engine warms up, or if you ran out of water. If you removed the radiator I'm sure it would warm up quickly, but if you ran out of water to inject you'd need some sort of radiator to cool the engine so maybe a y-valve on the radiator hose so you could either run coolant through the radiator or just loop it back to the engine. Also it seems like a programming nightmare to have a cars computer switch from 4 stroke to 6 stroke on- the- fly. also, oil changes would probably have to be more frequent, due to water vapor leaking past the rings. But like I said it sounds plausible. If the theory works, that would mean a 4 cylinder engine would fire 1600 times at 1200rpm instead of 2400 times. That's a big difference! Also, I don't know the laws where you live, but here in new York if a vehicle is 25 or more model years old, it doesn't need a catalytic converter so a swap Into an older vehicle would be the best route
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