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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
I've played with this at home and was hoping someday they'd get it to work on a 4 cylinder. Mine sounded like it wanted to start but it just couldn't quite do it. Of course one of the key things might be to start on 4 then switch off at higher rpm as there just isn't quite enough inertia to get 'er going on 2, but I had to try starting on 2 because my deac scheme was under the hood, not on the go.
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I inadvertently found that a Volvo B18 engine will start and run on two cylinders. Fortunately, it was the middle two cylinders.
Rush fixit job just before the welding supply store closed. Made it to the store, then hooked everything up to get home on four cylinders.
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