Friday, September 26, 2014

Five-Stroke Engine Works and Might Enter Production [Video]

   Sounds a bit crazy to make an engine that uses an odd number of strokes, right? We have 2, 4 and even 6-stroker engines so far, with the latter being still a prototype that injects water in the cylinders right after the exhaust to create steam and obtain two additional free strokes from the wasted heat. Still, a 5-stroke engine theory was invented by Gerhard Schmitz for quite some time and Ilmor managed to create a fully functional prototype.
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