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3 cylinder engines
how do 3 cylinder engines work? i know atleast some 3 cylinder engines use the same intake, compression, combustion, exhaust cycle as most regular petrol engines. at any given time in an inline or boxer engine each piston will be in one of the four cycles, no 2 pistons will be in the same cycle, this is so that the piston undergoing combustion can power the rest of the cylinders and the car itself, in a 3 cylinder the only method i can think of making it work is to let teh rotational enertia do the work which would theoretically push the idle speeds higher, does this make any sense?
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