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To: eraser2005

More like an X-6, I think...


53 posted on 10/19/2005 12:35:37 PM PDT by null and void (Stress is when you wake up screaming and then you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.)
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To: null and void

Yeah - I had that wrong - I was thinking the angles between cylinder banks... but that wouldn't make an x, either (that would have just 4 cylinders)... a 6 would be more like a an asterisk (not the * that I see on the screen when I type, but the six-armed one I have on my keyboard)...

an X-4 would still have some terrible vibrational modes - either the pistons all move to the top half of the x together and then to the bottom half, or they move left-right together (if any of that makes any sense). In any case, you have a lot of reciprocating mass moving in the same direction without a counterbalance. Now maybe you can counterbalance the shaft the cam lobes are on and fix it..... But I doubt an X-4 would be any better than a flat-4...


65 posted on 10/19/2005 1:22:58 PM PDT by eraser2005
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