interesting motor design

If we reverse the process and use the compressed air from those tires, we could run our engines on compressed tire air.

don't nobody light a match.

As a kid on the farm, I remember a hose set-up used to fill flat tires. One end was inserted into the spark plug hole and then used the engine as a compressor--don't remember any tires blowing-up!

It also makes a hell of an air compressor. We made one from a Buick straight one time. You cut the manifold to separate the cylinders, use four cylinders for the engine and four for the compressor. A lot of commercial compressors, like from rental companies, use the V-8 base. Four cylinders of engine and four of compressor.

Our old Buick was about worn out, so we didn't have to oil the air tools.

L-29 Cord will run on four at a time, that's how you adjust the two barrel carb. Short out four plugs and adjust one barrel and do the same with the other four. Auburn big eight the same and probably others too.
If you try and drive it with four to save gas you would save a lot. Because it won't go anywhere, thus the savings.
CORDially Mike

It's worked for some time in big engines. I think a car sized unit would have to have some very efficient computers, and I hate computers.

'The way the factory four barrel manifold works is that it thinks it's feeding two V-4 engines. One side of the manifold feeds the odd number cylinders, and the other side feeds the even number cylinders. You just blank off the side of the carburetor that is going to the dummy pistons. You can wire the plugs if you want, for looks.

You can build one yourself by just eliminating the pistons, and bolting an extra rod cap to maintain crank oil pressure.

The V-8 in Chrysler's current 300 at slower speeds runs on only four of its eight cylinders. Supposedly works quite well.

That's some very obscure information. Crower just lopped off four rods and pistons. Did they replace the four barrel with a two?
Have you driven the 4-6-8 Cadillac's of the eighties? Is there a running one in your barn. Could that idea return? I heard it had some drivability issues possibly that could be corrected with todays computers.

During the first fuel shortage fiasco, back in the seventies, Crower developed a workable V-4 conversion for the street rod V-8 engines. It consisted of four aluminum pistons with teflon rings, eight dummy lifters to maintain camshaft oil pressure, and very little else. One of their test cars was an Olds 98 with a 455 cu in engine. The car weighed over five thousand pounds. With V-4 conversion you had a 227 and a half cubic inch engine, a V-4, that pulled that heavy car at 27 miles per gallon. On a car like that Olds, it only takes 37 horsepower to cruise 55MPH. The reason for it was the V-8 is a symetrical engine and dresses up prettier in a hot rod.

Everyone needs a well-balanced automotive diet. He needs a Duesenberg in there alongside his water-powered engine...

Hi Cris,
It looks like you could build anything in that shop.
What a waste to to be inventing an engine that can run on water.

I don't know about the engine, but check out the guy's workshop behind him....

(there needs to be a smiley on here for envy)

Everyone must be thinking about how to get better fuel milage, this fellow has invented a 6 cycle motor that is of outstanding design, links below

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crower_six_stroke

www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a ... WEEKSISSUE