"Slant6" (slant-6)
10/08/2015 at 11:22 • Filed to: None
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"Slant6" (slant-6)
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Probably has been thought of already or not because it’s dumb.
What if you had rotors from a roarty in between regular pistons? So for a 3 “cylinder” you’d have piston 1, a dorito, and then another piston. I’m sure it could be engineered corectly hard part would be keeping it cool, oil, and finding a reason why.
Also excuse me if I called anything wrong.
TheHondaBro
> Slant6
10/08/2015 at 11:26 |
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Talk about a mechanical nightmare.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Slant6
10/08/2015 at 11:28 |
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Wait. Why?
Sweet Trav
> Slant6
10/08/2015 at 11:30 |
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There’s little advantage to joining a piston motor and a rotary. ONLY advantage of a rotary is that it has few moving parts and is happy in high RPM. saddling that to a piston motor would be giving up the advantages of each motor.
Although that does make me wonder if a rotary style supercharger is possible... hmmm.
bob and john
> Slant6
10/08/2015 at 11:33 |
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errmm....noooooo. can you imagen the nightmare the engine block out be? the crank isnt the issue, its the rest. plus, what benefit would it have? you still cant rev stupid high like a normal rotary because you have to account for the pisones...youd need multipule sumps under each piston...
thats just sounds terrifying.
Scott
> Slant6
10/08/2015 at 11:33 |
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uhmmm yeah ok... the biggest obstacle... reason 3... why? I’m certain it could be done, but why take an engine whose best feature is simplicity and lightness and add complexity and weight?
MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> Sweet Trav
10/08/2015 at 11:34 |
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Slant6’s insanity may have just generated a cool idea.
jariten1781
> Sweet Trav
10/08/2015 at 11:41 |
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Wankle’s original designs included an ICE, a supercharger, and an oil pump all with the same general geometry.
Your boy, BJR
> Slant6
10/08/2015 at 11:46 |
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There’s a great disturbance in the force......like millions of mechanics cried out and were suddenly silenced.
Rainbow
> Slant6
10/08/2015 at 11:49 |
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I don’t know, but now I’m curious about a motor with “infinite” rotors, in the same sense a CVT has “infinite” gears. Basically, it’s just one long, twisted Dorito in a chamber where the fuel ignites at the front, and then the force sort of glides along the curved end, spinning it, before coming out at the back of the chamber. Maybe I’m not doing a great job explaining it, but I think it could actually be feasible. I don’t know if it would have any benefits at all, though, aside from further reducing the amount of moving parts.
Montalvo
> Slant6
10/08/2015 at 12:15 |
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It probably could be done but would be overly complex and extremely prone to grenading itself. To make it even survive at high RPMs you would need some forged internals and needed up components. It would be interesting if it was used similar to cylinder deactivation. Have the pistons firing and as soon as you start reving it out the rotary portion kicks on.
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Slant6
> Montalvo
10/08/2015 at 12:22 |
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That’s part of the reason I thought of it. Kinda like twin charging with a turbo for high end and a supercharger for low end.
BloodlessWeevil
> Sweet Trav
10/08/2015 at 12:22 |
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Possibly relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots-typ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifug…
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Montalvo
> Slant6
10/08/2015 at 12:55 |
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Yeah it’s just too bad that a supercharger or turbocharger would be infinitely more reliable, powerful and likely much much lighter. The return on the investment is so low that its pointless to really try it except for laughs.
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Slant6
> Rainbow
10/08/2015 at 14:14 |
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I’m an industrial design student so these kinda ideas are expected. I think I might start a oppo serries where I 3d model these weird things out and try to justify them. Designer tries to be an engineer.