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I see some maintenance issues with this design:
ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) technologies
- Thread starter cmartinez
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I don't think the future of gas ICEs will be significantly affected just by making the engine shorter for a given displacement and cylinder count.
Oh, come on! Imagine how many Yugos could be sold if only they had a Ferrari engine!I don't think the future of gas ICEs will be significantly affected just by making the engine shorter for a given displacement and cylinder count.
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While it's not hard to imagine applications where a shorter engine of the same displacement and cylinder count would be an advantage, I don't see how such applications are so critical as to let something like this rewrite the future of gas engines. I would imagine that the cost to produce such engines, and possibly reliability and maintenance concerns, would keep these limit to applications in which engine length was a non-negotiable constraint and the disadvantages would have to be accepted.
The problem of shortening an engine while maintaining displacement and cylinder count was much more effectively and elegantly addressed a century ago -- it was called the radial engine. It also had a very good power to weight ratio. None-the-less, it had disadvantages that resulted in it falling by the wayside once the need for large, powerful aircraft engines was supplanted by gas turbines.
Going 100 mph on ice isn't much of an achievement. Stopping on ice after going 100 mph on it might be, though.
Did the guy win any of his races? Seemed like he got his butt kicked in all but perhaps one of the ones they showed.
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