04-15-2010, 12:47 AM
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Originally Posted by KEVTEX
Engine rpm is the same as the flywheel rpm. In a 4 stroke engine, each cylinder fires the compressed mixture on one revolution and expels the exhaust on the next revolution. Only 3 cylinders fire during one revolution. The piston goes down on the intake stroke, up on the compression stroke(ignition occurs here), down on the combustion stroke and up on the exhaust stroke completing 2 revolutions.
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Good on ya mate, makes sense.
In a four cylinder engine would it be 2 cylinders firing in one rev then woudln't it? Explains why the v6 is so much smoother and why the v8's like butter...
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