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animation loop of a modern engine design in which eight counter-opposed pistons are driven through intake, ignition, combustion, and exhaust - two pistons in each of four cylinders - by cams beneath each piston mounted on the wavelike surfaces of two counter-opposed flywheels. the ignitions appear as bright yellow flashes when each pair of pistons kisses at the top of their cycle.
I love this madness. Mechanically brilliant: https://www.theautopian.com/the-weir...
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idogcow 9 hours ago
zoom zoom v2
scruss pro 8 hours ago
Swashplate boxer engines come and go. My favourite is the Selwood engine from the 1950s, a football-sized thing that spun madly on its mounts. Disappeared without trace, of course.
MackReed pro 8 hours ago
@scruss I'm probably simple, but I love how much this reduces the number and complexity of bearing surfaces. No pushrods, crankshaft or rockers. Overhauling this one might even be downright pleasurable.
Mr_Encyclopedia pro 7 hours ago
back and forth forever...
scruss pro 7 hours ago
@MackReed yes, It's going to be small and light, but every part is really jammed in there. The roller/swashplate interaction is going to have some fierce friction loss.

TBH, no matter how nice it is, the world can't use a new internal combustion engine this century
MackReed pro 6 hours ago
@scruss Nor ever, should we expect to survive to the next century.

RIP the gas era.
wjcstp pro 5 hours ago
I see the specs in that article, but also I look at the roller pushing down a ramp and I just can’t see this generating much torque. Interesting design exercise though.
jpoulos pro 5 hours ago
Informative article about a cool invention but, man, the Internet needs editors.
jive_t pro 3 hours ago
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