Alex, thinking about your supercharged engine thoughts and your concern re crankcase contamination with fuel.
Years ago I was with Orbital, developing both our 2 stroke engines for auto use and the 2 fluid DI injection system for various applications.
Of the auto engines, we commenced with the mainstay 3 cyl crank scavenged X engine but also a 3 cyl (1 litre) and 6 cyl (2 litre) externally scavenged engines. These were wet sumped with pressure fed crank.
All scavenging was done by an engine driven Roots style blower. Interestingly this allowed us to have a common manifold on either side of the engine. From these we had vertical passages. In between each pair of adjacent cylinders, these were bifurcated at the top, such that one side feeding the two adjacent A ports, the other side feeding the two B ports. Probably not ideal in terms of flow due to the bifurcations, but certainly allowed us to maintain tight bore centres. Obviously these only transferred air, as these were DI.
Bit of a long story to get to the pistons. To prevent (uncontrolled/copious) oil entry up the bore and into the combustion area, the piston had an oil scraper ring at the base of the piston skirt, this being situated low enough to not uncover the exhaust or transfer ports. Obviously the piston was full skirted and longer (by a bit) than the engine stroke. Lubrication of the piston skirts and compression rings was achieved by oil being carried up the bore via the honing. A bit uncontrollable maybe, but I don’t remember any concerns with excess oil consumption and certainly no smoke or smell. Maybe not so suited to your max power only requirement, as these will necessarily be heavy. I think I might have one kicking around work, so will post a pic if I can find something.
These engines featured an exh power valve which allowed the exh timing to be very considerably lowered, providing the opportunity to pressurise the trapped volume to a degree.
So, I reckon that whatever cylinder you use, get one with a power valve that can go quite low.
As you might be aware, I am personally keen on having the exhaust drawing in air (or mixture) directly from the atmosphere, bypassing all the reed/crankcase/transfer passage losses, ideally on a wet sump bottom end.
There is another site: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1055...?ref=bookmarks where various things are discussed, one being the concept of a small electric motor providing enough flow to get the engine started There is also a range of other engine scavenging thoughts.
Alex, why would you still put reads in the intakes, when there is only flow in one direction![]()
thanks TZ, not sure if im doing something wrong but my pm messages are disappearing into space still... https://youtu.be/PU5xxh5UX4U
Can you tell me how far it is in development?
Getting second thoughts about my port blocker pipe...
That sounds like an ideal setup if one could keep the piston weight down. Yep some kind of exhaust valve is probably necessary, this Neg engine looks like it uses a secondary piston, maybe spinning at 2x crank speed. Too complicated for my "prototype", maybe a drum valve could work?
Your exhaust as intake idea is interesting!
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out!
Good point... :facepalm
Check out my YouTube channel! - 2STROKE STUFFING -
https://www.youtube.com/2STROKESTUFFING
Two strokes & rum!
Check out my YouTube channel! - 2STROKE STUFFING -
https://www.youtube.com/2STROKESTUFFING
Two strokes & rum!
Check out my YouTube channel! - 2STROKE STUFFING -
https://www.youtube.com/2STROKESTUFFING
Two strokes & rum!
There are currently 12 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 12 guests)
Bookmarks