On Thu, 16 May 1996 15:46:45 -0400 tdm@smtp-gw.ak.att.com (Don Mathis) wrote:
>>> Not to make this situation any more complex than it already is, My
>>> housemate has a motorcycle with a one cylinder, four stroke engine. It is
>>> a Suzuki Savage, and I imagine that the flywheel is weighted to allow it
>>> to run, but I wouldn't be calling the people at Guiness just yet.
>>
>>Hoping to make this situation more complex, _I_ once saw a Midget run on
>>two cylinders with no spark! The owner wanted to increase compression
>>but was too cheap to buy different pistons so he had a lot of metal shaved
>>off the bottom of the head. With two spark plugs out and no spark plug
>>wires connected, he was turning the engine over by hand to adjust the valves
>>when the thing started. It didn't run well or long, but it ran. So much
>>metal had been shaved off the head that the engine had been turned into a
>>diesel. He had to replace the head. Feel free to dispute this; I'm not
>>sure I'm alive unless someone's contradicting me. ;-)
>>
>>Denise Thorpe
>>thorpe@kegs.saic.com
>
>Denise,
>maybe he had the spark plugs in but not connected.....otherwise, how did he
>get compression with the spark plubs out!?
Hey, she said with TWO plugs out.
If the engine was very hot, and CR very high, I'm sure it could run on with zero
compression on two cylinders and no spark. But START like that, hmmmm...
Ulix
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