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Old 09-28-2013, 07:39 PM   #27 (permalink)
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They jumped all over Tucker for selling fitted luggage for a car that wasn't shipping.

The Dunn-Right is a functioning gas engine/compressor sold worldwide since 1987, although the example I saw had the starter turned around so it sat over the engine instead of the transaxle.

It seems reasonable to me to have one installed in a trike with a winch and Snap-on toolbox. Sort of a shop truck.

As for Scuderi they seem to be better at spending millions than producing even one example running in public. For instance they hobbled their development work by creating a proprietary VR4 engine block when they knew the compression cylinders need to be bigger than the ignition cylinders. Quoting here:
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The upright motors cannot just change strokes and bores. The block is fixed and has to maintain deck heights. To change strokes means you have to change rod lenghts, piston pin heights.

For the horizontally opposed motor, you can change any stroke, bore and lenght of motor...regardless of where the pin height is. The variations are almost endless. This is the beauty of the Aircooled VW.
So you can't just pirate Scuderi's patents (which expire when?), but you probably could sell a kit of parts that would allow individuals to create their own (Not For Resale ). The trick part that would make it all work would be a re-indexed roller-bearing crankshaft.
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