irocpractice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGlUZg2pC0Q

Lary Ellis (Top)

Pick up a couple for me as well...I need 2 new boat anchors.

6cylinders

Why don't they strap one to a dyno, let's see what it'll do, let's see it actually run.

mikmaze

guy must have been in politics for quite some time, only way of explaining him talking for 5 minutes till I could stand no more and shut him off........ lets see it in action, and let that video do the talking for it.

Lary Ellis (Top)

If it ran, you would see exactly that

Alwaysworking

i hope they do it, so that the real diesels become cheaper and more readily available.

RickG

I THINK it's running here . http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...53047018998659

irocpractice

Sorry guys,it's just that I saw this and and and I could not resist.For those of a certain generation,I think this guy went to the Ralph Williams/Cal Worthington used car sales school.

ian515

whoah, bustin out the cal worthington, you must be west coast, or Alaska?


"we're open till midnight, we'll leave the coffee pot on for ya"

I love that he was banned from california for rollin back odometers

edit----

just looked up his website, apparently he is still allowed in CA. I have a cousin who works for him who told me he got into some serious trouble there and was kicked out, maybe he was lying to me....

wannadiesel

Nope, it's being motored on compressed air. Free-piston engines have been around since WWII, but the only successful applications have been as gas generators for turbines.

Jeff in TD

Yeah, looking at several of those videos it is an interesting concept, but from eyeballing it I can't see the arm those pistons ride on taking the force that would be generated by actual combustion.

Also it claims only the rings and not the pistons contact the cylinder (for lack of a better term). Seems to me there isn't an adequate path for heat to leave the piston, and no provision to lubricate the rings...

johnny5.9

I agree that it probably needs alot of work but the concept is interesting. I imagine Rudolph Diesel received many of the same type of comments back in the day. And look where we are now with diesel.