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Originally Posted by freebeard
At one time I wanted a Volks-Aire compressor mounted on the transaxle of a tricycle 'shop truck'. Open the tap to make it drivable with an in-line two.
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Instead of opening the time and wasting compressed air, makes me wonder if it would be worth resorting to the compressing cylinders as somewhat of a supercharger. At least one guy did a similar approach in a Ducati motorcycle with the L2 engine, I just don't remember if the upper or the lower cylinder acted as a supercharger. On a sidenote, another interesting experience could be resorting to the compressed air to provide some sort of air conditioning similar to what is done on airliners with their air-cycling machine powered with bled air from one of the compressors of a turbofan or turboprop.