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Is my math right? An engine fires at 20 times a second at 2500 rpms?

Started by Kern Dog, April 28, 2025, 01:13:40 AM

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Kern Dog

I was talking with my nephew today about how amazing that engines are and how it seems like everything has to go right for them to run as well as they do.
I told him that at freeway speeds when an engine is running at say....2500 rpms, each piston fires about 20 times a second. I based this on the cylinders firing on every other revolution given that this is a 4 cycle engine. That cuts the 2500 number to 1250. Then divide that by 60 to show what each second would see in terms of each cylinder firing.
I came up with 20.83.
This is something that I have never looked into this deeply before.
If this is true, if you shift at 6000 rpms, you're firing the pistons at 50 times in each second.
If this is true, that really is amazing.


Kern Dog

The 4 cycles are Intake, compression, combustion and exhaust evacuation. That happens in 2 revolutions of the crank.

TDC to BDC for intake.
BDC to TDC for compression.
That is one revolution.
TDC to BDC for combustion.
BDC to TDC for exhaust evacuation.
Two revolutions.

John_Kunkel

Quote from: Kern Dog on April 28, 2025, 02:29:20 AMThe 4 cycles are Intake, compression, combustion and exhaust evacuation. That happens in 2 revolutions of the crank.

Unless it's a new Porsche design.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/porsche-engine-patent-stroke-explained
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