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Location: Sydney
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Any engine builders / machinest out there heard of a Bourke Engine or a Very Lean Burn Engine?
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Sun, 11 September 2005 19:53
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Any engine builders / machinest out there heard of a Bourke Engine or a Very Lean Burn Engine? Have anyone here tried building one?
- its design claims to be able to run on any type of fuel
- it's a very lean burning engine (ie. using very low amount of fuel)
- claimed to have a way better power to weight ratio
- low amount of moving parts to reduce or completely remove the need for maintence, while decreasing the amount of heat generated, less load on cooling, greatly increasing efficiency
- almost no need to change oil!
- designed to run on lean fuel (or even detonation) as the piston are designed to be completely straight and no side movements as in the 4 stroke engine, thus completely immune to damages by detonation
- burns fuel completely and no pollution
- up to 20,000rpm???
main thing to note is the low operating temperture, and low pollution, and the low fuel consumption...
sounds too good to be true? I don't know, but the design seems simple enough to be built, and I think any engine builder + a machine place should be able to built an experimental one cheaply and prove if the theory is true (fuel efficiency + power), and if it is true, build a bigger copy for drag and circuit racing and blow everyone away?
Thus the question, have anyone heard of it? Have anyone here tried it?
[Updated on: Sun, 11 September 2005 19:58]
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Any engine builders / machinest out there heard of a Bourke Engine or a Very Lean Burn Engine?
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86tt | Sun, 11 September 2005 19:53 |
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Maurice c | Mon, 12 September 2005 00:25 |
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86tt | Mon, 12 September 2005 05:52 |
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Norbie | Mon, 12 September 2005 11:23 |
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86tt | Mon, 12 September 2005 11:51 |
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thechuckster | Mon, 12 September 2005 12:53 |
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86tt | Tue, 13 September 2005 05:49 |
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oldcorollas | Tue, 13 September 2005 07:07 |
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wilbo666 | Tue, 13 September 2005 07:28 |
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86tt | Wed, 14 September 2005 15:14 |
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oldcorollas | Wed, 14 September 2005 15:29 |
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86tt | Wed, 14 September 2005 15:39 |
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thechuckster | Wed, 14 September 2005 21:48 |
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HyDrA | Mon, 12 September 2005 12:59 |
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oldcorollas | Mon, 12 September 2005 13:59 |
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Bill Sherwood | Mon, 12 September 2005 15:54 |
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oldcorollas | Mon, 12 September 2005 16:51 |
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mrshin | Mon, 12 September 2005 14:01 |
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oldcorollas | Mon, 12 September 2005 14:37 |