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New engines patented by Ando-Trephin Motors installed in vehicles

imported_ViZion
27-07-2007, 10:12
Ando-Trephin Motors
Vehicles on a Whole New Level

Ando-Trephin Motors have finished the engineering, development, and testing of a few various new engines.

Opposed Piston Engine, Crower Six Stroke Engine, and Air Compression Engine are all patented Ando-Trephin Motors technology. Production rights are unavailable outside of ViZion World Corporation, of which Ando-Trephin Motors is owned by.

Air Compression Engine
And Hybrid Variant
Ando-Trephin Motors has begun the production of 2-cylinder and 4-cylinder air compression engines to power their smaller cars.

The initial 2-cylinder engine will put up the equivalent of 105 horsepower. The 4-cylinder version will initially be available with 140 horsepower.

We also have a hybrid version of this, which will add a 1,500 volt electric motor. This will be added to the 4-cylinder engine only, thus the horsepower will be bumped to 180, while torque will be up from 150 to 225 pound-feet.

Please note that the air compressor is powered by energy stored between wind and solar power. We have a small but efficient solar power system on every car powered by our Air Compression Engine, as well as two small wind power systems.

By the way, there's no worries about having to fill up with air when you're low - the car will constantly be collecting air, rather driving or not, keeping its tank full.

Crower Six Stroke
Ando-Trephin Motors has also introduced the new Crower Six Stroke engine. Our specific setup has external connecting rods outside the cylinder linking the upper and lower pistons, thus requiring only a single crankshaft.

We are also working on what's called a free-piston setup. It has no crankshaft and the pistons are returned after each firing stroke by compression and expansion of air in a separate cylinder. We are also working on a setup to have it power vehicles by using it to drive a linear alternator.

Currently, we rate our CSS at 95 horsepower and 100 pound-feet of torque per cylinder with our twin-screw supercharger. We currently have one, two, three, and four cylinder versions, and will soon be offering six cylinder versions as well.
The CSS has been taken out until further development can ensue.

Opposed Piston
Our opposed piston engine is our pride and joy in the performance sector. An opposed piston engine is one in which the cylinders are double-ended, with a piston at each end and no cylinder head. With no cylinder heads to worry about blowing, this engine will be equipped with 35 psi of boost with our new turbo system. With this higher pressure, we are, in turn, able to make more power - and without needing to jam more fuel into the air, we are able to obtain outstanding fuel economy for the power produced. Another unique idea to the Opposed Piston engine, is that we have added laser ignition.

We are looking at 2, 4, 6, and 8 cylinders for the comsumer market, and we are initially putting out roughly 150 horsepower and 150 pound-feet of torque per cylinder. Keep in mind that, with this new engine, you can choose what kind of fuel you want to burn. This basic engine is able to be customized relatively easily, thus this same basic engine can be anywhere from small city cars to full-on, track-ready, formula 1 race cars. All Opposed Piston engines are setup with a hybrid system, thus allowing the vehicle to save gas, as well as offer plenty more off-the-line torque.

Our hybrid system is setup to cut 99% of fuel consumption on coasting, while the engine is off completely upon stopping. The AutoStop feature can be disabled.

We are also working on ways to combine our opposed piston and air compression engines into one setup, thus allowing the opposed piston engine to run on simple air!

These three engines will very soon be displacing all of our regular gasoline engines here at Ando-Trephin Motors.

Images of our Opposed Piston Engine
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Dostanuot Loj
27-07-2007, 12:34
OOC: Umm... your Crower idea doesn't work. I'll gladly break everything wrong with it down for you and explain why if you want, but to save a ton of writing from me right now, I'll just say it and the proposed upgrades, don't work.

On the air compression engine, speed has nothing to do with engine output, only transmission and power to weight ratio of the vehicle. So there's no point to saying each level can go faster because they can't, all of them can reach 200 miles per hour if you stuck them in the right vehicles with the right transmissions.
How they collect air and keep going on perpetual motion however is another question you should ask yourself.

How your opposed piston engine can change bore is beyond me, stroke might be doable if this is an electronically ignighted design, but will drop power and skyrocket fuel use.After spending all my life around engines I have never heard of an engine being able to change bore without a complete overhaul and some serious performance problems.

There's other problems with the engines as well, but I'll leave them for now.
I do, however, applaud you for this. Engines are such an under used and under developed part of technology in NS that I've honestly only ever seen them gone into detail a dozen times at best, and only twice released as their own systems.

Edit: If it helps I put a fairly simple, but detailed, tutorial on the design of an engine for NS needs on the NsDraftroom =here. (http://z4.invisionfree.com/NSDraftroom/index.php?showtopic=244&st=0)