05-21-2015, 07:09 AM
Thank you, Flyn. And you Django. I was writing and figuring while you were posting.
Funny how people's brains work. I've always had a very rudimentary idea of how an engine works, but I'd never really tried to visualize it. I find incredibly hard—the imaginative equivalent of patting my head and rubbing my tummy.
Am I right that the alternative is called a 180° firing order? One piston goes up as the other goes down? Won't that result in a rotation where there's a <BANG> on two consecutive half turns and then nothing for a full turn? That would bring about its own vibration issues too, wouldn't it?
Funny how people's brains work. I've always had a very rudimentary idea of how an engine works, but I'd never really tried to visualize it. I find incredibly hard—the imaginative equivalent of patting my head and rubbing my tummy.
Am I right that the alternative is called a 180° firing order? One piston goes up as the other goes down? Won't that result in a rotation where there's a <BANG> on two consecutive half turns and then nothing for a full turn? That would bring about its own vibration issues too, wouldn't it?