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Jbb
01-09-2007, 04:07 AM
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Racey
01-09-2007, 09:12 AM
The first four strokes are the same as an internal combustion engine.
In Crower's design, after the exhaust cycles out of the chamber, rather than squirting more fuel and air into the chamber, his design injects ordinary water. Inside the extremely hot chamber, the water immediately turns to steam, expanding to 1600 times its volume, which forces the piston down for a second power stroke. Another exhaust cycle pushes the steam out of the chamber, and then the six-stroke cycle begins again.
-wiki http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Crower's_Six-Stroke_Engine
Pretty cool, a good way to utilize all that heat energy that is normally wasted through the cooling system in an Internal combustion engine.