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Originally Posted by milt
Exhaust gas turbo charging on a 2-cycle would not be efficient. I wonder if a mechanical blower would be good.
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Like a Detroit? They made millions of them, so you could say they were popular, if not good. The 6-71 was the most popular because its blower was adapted to a lot of drag racers. I had a John Deere 435 with a Detroit 2-53. Bulldog of a little tractor. I watched a 16 mm film made back in the 40s that showed a 3-71 running. They shut it down and took the inspection plates off to reveal that the rods didn't have any caps on them. The pressure in the cylinder was always positive enough to keep the rod seated on the crank.