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Originally Posted by Christ
The only engine I've personally seen that stood up to hydro-lock at mid-high engine speeds (off idle, maybe ~2k RPM) was the Wankel Rotary engine. It cracked the apex seal, but would still run after the water was extracted.
Test was performed with donated engines, using a measured amount of water per engine (1.5x the volume in the chamber at relative TDC) (Rotaries don't have TDC, they have "full compression")
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I love rotaries. Shame the design behind them doesn't match the engineering, otherwise they'd be much better FE wise. Still fairly impressive power output from such a small displacement.