Why are we not funding this? 6 stroke engine cycle.

Updated: 29 Nov 2024

It’s the same as a 4-stroke, but adds a 5th and 6th. On the 5th, you spray water into the engine. It turns into steam and pushes the piston back down for an extra power stroke. 6th is the steam exhaust cycle. This system uses waste heat from combustion to create another power stroke. It also cools the engine, meaning a minimized need for outside cooling systems, like radiators.

Another benefit is that 1/3 of the strokes are power strokes as opposed to 1/4 being power strokes in a 4 stroke cycle. It also burns fuel 50% less often than a traditional engine (Once every 6 strokes instead of once every 4), so you get more power and burn less fuel.

Also, sorry if this is in the wrong community, none really seemed to fit this accurately.

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In a lot o engines the heat in the piston chamber is used to fully vaporise the petrol. It would be like riding your car with cold engine forever.

Interesting… but how are the camshafts going to look like ?

I tough they said not to use water in coolant cuz it caused rust to tue engine…and now you wanna spray it inside the combustion chamber im lost!

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Sorry, I didn’t see your post. I heard about it from a youtube comment a day or two ago and I thought it sounded cool, so did a bit of research.

ok so this wont work because when you heat then cool thing like steel (particularly hard materials) they tend to crack. also when your engine is running things expand and seal gaps that have calculated tolerances. so this would make the engine fail by allowing gasses to escape. smart idea but vary flawed logic.

what a great idea but I think you would need 2 fuel tanks, 2 sets of injectors, 2 rails with respective fpr’s, 2 times the plumbing and then there is the issue of the ecu having many more inputs driving up costs and making it not worth it.

Well alot of problems but the least someone could do is try it. I’d acctually want to see that.

Meh. Seems highly improbable at this point in time. Also introducing water, actual h2o, into the same space where fuel is injected and combusted seems like it wwould fail without many years of development. in my opinion we should improve diesels. That’s NOT a vw joke BTW. Even though they lied, the whole ordeal makes me want a clean diesel cuz they made a car that is smart enough to know its taking a test

Just some food for thought for those saying you can’t pump water into the combustion chamber the new BMW m4 gts uses water injection although jot in the same way this is purely used to increase performance by injecting it into the intake plenums

Using the water to cool the cylinder might make it less efficient for the next stroke, but if the water injector is positioned properly, it could reduce the propensity of knock. This means a higher compression ratio can be used, which is directly linked to increasing engine efficiency. Whether its enough, who knows!