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2021-04-10 Science & Technology
Here's Why We Don't Have Opposed-Piston Enginesā€at Least Not Yet
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Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-10 07:21|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top

#1 Very cool.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-10 09:36||   2021-04-10 09:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Ranking The Greatest Horizontally Opposed-Engines Ever Made
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2021-04-10 11:26||   2021-04-10 11:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Seem to remember old BMW cycles were opposed cylinder.
Posted by Mercutio 2021-04-10 12:02||   2021-04-10 12:02|| Front Page Top

#4 The gist:
Before supercomputers and sophisticated chemically reactive computational fluid dynamics, optimization was done by intuition and trial and error. As a result, all two-stroke engines were dropped from regulated markets.
Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-04-10 13:05||   2021-04-10 13:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds like a good idea, you know, based on REAL actual science, not religion like the warming cult believes in.
Posted by Silentbrick 2021-04-10 16:08||   2021-04-10 16:08|| Front Page Top

#6 subsru wrx has opposed piston engines ( boxter )
as do many Porsche's
Posted by 746 2021-04-10 16:54||   2021-04-10 16:54|| Front Page Top

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