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Old 10-29-2015, 03:28 PM   #38 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by fearlessjoe
i would like to...... bare with me cos this is a bit in cloud cookoo land...... take a 1.6 diesel.... and remove 2 cylinders..... i dont mean chop the engine in half...
If cylinder deactivation works, then the same firing scheme should translate.

OTOH cutting a boxer six down to a four or a four down to a twin is settled art. And there exists at least one flat-four diesel, from Subaru.
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