"wkiernan" (wkiernan)
12/15/2015 at 17:56 • Filed to: None
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"wkiernan" (wkiernan)
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Here’s an oddity, a variable-displacement engine from 1917! I wish I knew which auto manufacturer made this fine invention. From
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, courtesy of Google Books (page 732).
TheHondaBro
> wkiernan
12/15/2015 at 18:06 |
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Volvo made it, when the first-gen S80 came out.
HammerheadFistpunch
> wkiernan
12/15/2015 at 18:06 |
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now I really want to know what turning the lever does!
itschrome
> wkiernan
12/15/2015 at 18:10 |
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I wanna saw it looks much like a packard twin six... but it’s hard to say
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itschrome
> HammerheadFistpunch
12/15/2015 at 18:13 |
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probably disengages the park plus and diverts fuel away from the cylinders some how... or nothing at all and it was a load of snake oil..
I Will Always Be The Honey Badger
> wkiernan
12/15/2015 at 18:18 |
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Looks like the Enger V12.
http://www.lambopower.com/forum/lofivers…
http://www.google.com/patents/US1201…
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> I Will Always Be The Honey Badger
12/15/2015 at 18:49 |
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If I’m looking at that correctly, it closes off a butterfly valve to that side of the engine for the intake, and proceeds to traverse a rod with wheels over all the exhaust valves on that side to hold them open. Interesting idea in theory, but probably awful in practice: there’s no gentle way I can see to slide the valve-opener while the engine’s running without beating up the tops of the valves, and it looks like the top of those valves is designed in such a way that the valve isnt’ supposed to turn freely, which is super dumb. One would also hope that the linkage to convert modes also reset the throttle, because otherwise the same throttle position would be for much higher revs on the six-cylinder side only vs. twelve mode. Basically, all kinds of very fucky things would happen if you switched while running.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> itschrome
12/15/2015 at 18:50 |
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HoneyBadgerIAm found the patent diagram: it forces the exhaust valves open on one side and closes the intake manifold on one side. Crude, but works to a point, as long as you don’t try to switch while running.
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I Will Always Be The Honey Badger
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/15/2015 at 18:54 |
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Yes, I don’t think this an on-the-fly type of mechanism.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> I Will Always Be The Honey Badger
12/15/2015 at 19:05 |
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It wouldn’t be hard to develop so that it *was* on the fly, but that’s not how it was made.
Tohru
> wkiernan
02/21/2016 at 19:57 |
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How the use of language changes - I kinda want to read the rest of the article about that homosexual-looking craft used for pumping water.
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wkiernan
> Tohru
02/21/2016 at 21:04 |
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Anticipating the juvenile comedic tastes of us, their great-grandchildren, the editors of Illustrated World followed the article about the Queer Pumper with another article entitled “Such a Little Queen!”
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Tohru
> wkiernan
02/21/2016 at 21:10 |
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Queer pumpers and little queens - am I reading a 70 year old Popular Mechanics-type magazine or the front page at Jezebel?