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Old 08-06-2009, 09:47 PM   #41
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Really??

I didn't realise that once you fire two cylinders you suddenly double the rotating mass of a single engine :togo:

As for making sense I've put the idea to engineers who have all said it would work, and you do what exactly??
Because you are only using half the fuel per cylinder, you are in effect making the energy produced from the combustion, push twice as much rotating mass and twice as much friction, as opposed to a conventional engine.

Yet you somehow think thats irrelevant?
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