Why aren't radial engines used in cars?
Why aren't radial engines used in cars?
Jayden Price
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Zachary Powell
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Henry Morgan
>happy starfish engine
Brayden Turner
I don't see a problem here
Hudson Barnes
Large size
Massive oil consumption (ie, the only time they don't consume/leak is when there's no oil left)
Depending on how it's arranged, you have to fuck with it before you should even think of starting it to prevent pooled oil locking the cylinders.
Lucas Jones
I guarantee nobody rear ends you.
or at least nobody will live to tell the tale
Ayden Watson
psssssh
he probably doesn't even change his own oil
Noah Lee
Five-way assplugging.
Hunter Williams
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Brayden Bailey
It's a massive pancake with the crank set very high on the block. In its intended orientation it's a very inefficient configration for a low riding land vehicle.
is probably the only good way to pull it off. Even then an H configuration would sit lower and require less mechanical wizardry.
Leo James
damn thats pretty. have a picture of the rest of the car?
Joseph Martin
Here.
Eli Peterson
Radial rotary in a car
Julian Roberts
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Jayden Foster
they're too big
Landon Morales
Where to start?
*If it's not high enough across the ground, your valve covers would scrape the ground, but regardless, it has an extremely high center of gravity (planes move through the air, not across the ground that's below them). Other than balance, boxer engines exist for this exact reason.
*There's also more complexity and cost, as you'd need an overhead camshaft for every cylinder's valves. You'd need air/fuel/cooling/exhaust/ignition/etc wires/hoses/manifolds traveling radially outward to EACH cylinder instead of all in a cutesy little line. You're also using a ton of material to make your engine block/cylinders/heads. That's a lot of parts to make, material need, failure points, tedious assembly process, cost, weight, potential wasted space, and did I mention cost?
*Say you if you use the design that has the engine block rotating around stationary pistons air-cooling the engine without a fan as it moves past the air and eliminate the need for a flywheel. That's a lot of rotational inertia and the handling would be shit vertical and horizontal. Even if you had two blocks counter-rotating to cancel each other out and eliminate this problem, all that rotational inertia would lead to a terribly unresponsive throttle (not a problem for planes though, which spin the propeller at a constant speed or gradually speed up or slow down if needed).
*The oil pump would be doing a ton of work.
They're great for airplanes, but terrible for cars.
Angel Turner
>engine block rotating around
OP asked about Radials, not Rotary.
Jose Kelly
Because worrying about 2 cylinder heads is bad enough.
Mason Wood
>you'd need an overhead camshaft
You could make it OHV.
Gabriel Sullivan
>Engine block
>Rotating
Wonder where is your comprehension user. He refers to the block, which is not a single piece holding 4 pistons together, but a masive multi piece block holding each piston separately
Cameron Torres
or go camless
Ethan Johnson
>camless
im so glad you brought that up, did you want to hear about koenigsegg camless engine technology?
Parker Walker
oh boy