Two-stroke engine
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A two-stroke engine is a type of internal combustion engine that completes a power cycle with two strokes of the piston, one up and one down, in one revolution of the crankshaft in contrast to a four-
1966 Saab Sport
A two-stroke minibike
Lateral view of a two-stroke Forty series British Seagull outboard engine; the serial number dates it to 1954/1955
A Cox Babe Bee 0.049 in3 (0.80 cm3) reed valve engine, disassembled, uses glow-plug ignition. Its mass is 64 g.
Scavenging (engine)
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Scavenging is the process of replacing the exhaust gas in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine with the fresh air–fuel mixture for the next cycle. If scavenging is incomplete, the remaining exh
Two-stroke engine
…two crankshaft revolutions to complete a power cycle. During the stroke from bottom dead center to top dead center, the end of the exhaust/intake (or scavenging) is completed along with the compression of the mixture. The second stroke encompasses the combustion of the mixture, the expansion of the burnt mixture…
Cross flow scavenging with a deflector piston