How do we improve the internal combustion engine?

How do we improve the internal combustion engine?

external combustion

By changing laws to remove all the bullshit padding around it. If we still made cars light, small but kept the new engine tech we'd be miles ahead.

atkinson cycle wankel engine

We don't want to.

>more combustion

Make the valves independent and computer controlled (camless). I think that will be about as efficient as you can make a piston engine.

As far as a wankel, read a paper on using different sized rotors to reduce fuel consumption when fractional power is needed. The wankel is a great design for steady power, its just absolute shit at efficiency for fractional power.

computer controlled variable everything

Disconnect it from the drivetrain and tune for maximum efficiency. Hook it to a generator, run the power through a battery/capacitor bank, and drive the wheels with individual electric motors.

Wankel with square shaped rotors

Add more fasts

Multiple sequential engines

Add more braps per minute

Make it a triangle, where each side completes intake, compression/combustion, and exhaust all in one rotation. Then add turbos.

I agree. With todays composite materials, efficient electronics and computer simulations cars could weight a fraction of what they do today.

LOL

anti-gravity hovercars, we have the tech but the military-industrial complex won't release it for the next 100 years at least

move on to better things

by deleting and switching to rotary :)

Improve power? No idea
Improve efficiency? Different fuels

Rotary is combustion.

rotary is magic :)

Hydrogen generator

It looks fed up with life

well the only people i've seen purchase them have been 50+ retirees, so I guess it fits

finally get serious about the two-stroke.

There must be some way to make it better with modern EFI and other electronics shit.

I had someone say to me they don't understand rotaries because "it's not really an internal combustion engine"

Mfw

some mercury outboard boat motors are supercharged fuel-injected two-strokes. pretty neat.

The emissions of the 2 stroke are its biggest problem and by their nature just don't burn as completely as a 4 stroke.

then lets fix that

Sauce on that image? I want.

ditch reciprocating mechanisms
get back into hi low and triple expansion
hit up dat high temperature fuel atomisation
turbo shaft engines for automotive use
make it so plebs cant drive

this. microturbines are where it's at.

What if we just made the cylinders bigger?

Like instead of a v8 we instead have two really wide cylinders/rounder rectangles as the combustion chambers?

It sounds dumb at first, but what if?

no real point to it aside from getting around racing regulations.

getting rid of cams and have them computer controlled

make cars at least 500kg lighter than their predecessor to make the engine spritely, and more efficient

improve the CVT. Infinite combinations of gear ratio's is godly, however, the current cvt is too choked for power and fragile, the idea is there it just needs to be improved. Perhaps a lock-up torque converter at certain ratio's and preset commands?

RWD

start riding a bicycle, you fat fuck

You'd have a much larger amount of friction , and yo'd make it more difficult time making a perfect seal . also the ratio between weight and displacement of the cylinders and pistons would be much lower . There is a very good reason why the fundamental components of an engine have stayed almost unchanged .

>increasing displacement

At this point, it's probably too late for electric transmission.

He's probably disabled and can't ride a bicycle. Check your privilege shitlord.

Put down the bong

More cylinder

You think everybody is into cars and is a good driver?
Take a look again, people hate cars and can barely drive. So they have to drive their safebox SUVs and Crossovers.