Ilmor Engineering designs 5-stroke engine
A British firm named Ilmor Engineering, with offices in the UK and Michigan, have designed and proven a radically new engine design. They have developed a turbocharged gasoline powered 5-stroke internal combustion engine that will (should) help revolutionize the industry. It is amazingly efficient. You might recall the efficiency of engines I talked about in an earlier blog. This one, however, is in another league altogether. Their prototype produces 130 horsepower and 122 ft. lbs. of torque from just .7L of displacement (with the help of a snail, of course). What that equates to is 186 horsepower per liter. By comparison, if this engine was the size of a 350 small block Chevrolet (5.7L) and kept that same level of efficiency, it would produce over a thousand ponies. What I haven’t mentioned yet is this is a 3 cylinder engine. How’s that for a stereotype-killer?
You can check out all the details for yourself on Ilmor’s site.
http://www.ilmor.co.uk/concept_5-stroke_1.php
