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Default OT - Six stroke engine


"Bob Engelhardt" wrote: (clip) the gas use is also less & given you're
getting *some* power
from the steam stroke, your efficiency will be higher. Putting it the
other way around: if you increase the RPM so that your gas use is the same
as a 4-cycle (same number of combustion strokes per second), you will get
more power. (clip)

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Thanks. You understood my confusion.