Cool engine website for the curious

[Tourmeister]

Howdy,

:tab This guy has taken the time to animate the engine cycles of many modern and older engines as well. This is really cool for those of us that are nerds ;-)

http://www.keveney.com/Engines.html

Adios,

[ZapataZR7]

Great link Scott.....!!!!!

I really enjoyed it.

[AggieVFR]

I especially liked the two stroke and the Wankel illustrations. Having worked on numerous two-smokes, it was nice to see a live illustration of one in operation. The Wankel is kind of like black magic. HUGE power output for small specific displacement. If they could clean up the emissions and increase fuel mileage, and I'm guessing the troublesome apex seals, there might be more of them in production. At least Mazda is giving it another go in the RX-8. :)

[Tourmeister]

Bump because it is a really cool website!

[gotdurt]

Dude, that is too cool! That one goes to my bookmarks.

[Fangs]

Really cool!!!! Never knew there were so many variations of steam power.

[Outlander]

Very nice. I love odd engines, that is why the RX is our family mini-van

[Tourmeister]

I had a link to a site about a deisel KLR 650 used by the military, and also abotu trying to make a diesel powered motoGP bike, but the side link is no longer good :-( I'll poke around and see what I can find.

[Tourmeister]

Found it! Check out the specs for this engine... :eek:

http://www.peace65.freeserve.co.uk/Pictures/commercialdevelopment.htm

Then hit the BACK link at the bottom of the page for more motorcycle related diesel info.

Adios,

[HotChickenStrips]

OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! :eek:

I considered myself knowledgeable on internal combustion engines, but the Atkinson engine blew my mind, and I didn't know it even existed.

Too many reciprocating parts and friction, but cool design in any case.

[sprack]

If you like the rotary, check out the quasi-turbine.
http://quasiturbine.promci.qc.ca/QTIndex.html

I especially liked the two stroke and the Wankel illustrations. Having worked on numerous two-smokes, it was nice to see a live illustration of one in operation. The Wankel is kind of like black magic. HUGE power output for small specific displacement. If they could clean up the emissions and increase fuel mileage, and I'm guessing the troublesome apex seals, there might be more of them in production. At least Mazda is giving it another go in the RX-8. :)

[gotdurt]

If you like the rotary, check out the quasi-turbine.
http://quasiturbine.promci.qc.ca/QTIndex.html


OOOOOOOOHHHHHH..... :shock:

[Tourmeister]

Hmmm... that is VERY cool! I wonder what the throttle repsonse is like. Turbines generally have a very slow response because of the inertia of the spinning core at exceptionally high RPM's. I also wonder what kind of RPM's this thing could handle? With no valves to float, it could theoretically spin pretty darn fast. I would imagine that you could easily stack them to create larger engines similar to having multiple cylinders in a regular engine. Imagine, no valve adjustments! I wonder what the gyroscopic forces from the engine are like? It would work great for a shaft driven bike like the GS, but might make a chain driven bike hard to steer if the crank runs across the beam of the bike from side to side instead of along the length of the bike's center line.

Oh the possibilities... I wonder if Jay Leno owns one?

Adios,

[gotdurt]

I also wonder what kind of RPM's this thing could handle? With no valves to float, it could theoretically spin pretty darn fast. I would imagine that you could easily stack them to create larger engines similar to having multiple cylinders in a regular engine. Imagine, no valve adjustments!

Scott, You need an RX-7 (or 8). Very cool indeed, wish I didn't have to sell mine.

I wonder what the gyroscopic forces from the engine are like? It would work great for a shaft driven bike like the GS, but might make a chain driven bike hard to steer if the crank runs across the beam of the bike from side to side instead of along the length of the bike's center line.


That (mounted longitudinally)would make wheelies and stoppies difficult! Also a bit unstable laterally. ;-) Your suspension would work well though.