Last night, while I lay awake on my bed thinking of things to help make me sleep and take my mind off all the annoying painful things my body does to me, I realised something.
I was thinking twin turbos on a ca18 and imagining how using two turbos could be best tuned to make the car more efficient. And then it occurred to me. Something really simple. So simple that any other car person already would have known this, but I didn't some how. A 4 stroke engine, has 4 cycles. A 4 cylinder engine, has each cycle going on at any given time. So there is constantly at least one piston making power in the engine.
I remember reading up on some sort of 3 cylinder piece of shit that came out last year. And I realised that this car couldn't have all cycles going at once. So clearly, it's a piece of shit for road use. And with this in mind, I could clearly see how low displacement high number of cylinder engines were more efficient. I've always known this but never really gave thought as to why.
And the roof of my mouth is swollen and killing me. |
