Internal combustion engine animation

[boxermania]

Just look at the two front or two rear cylinders in an oppoed fashion and you have the workings of the Boxer engine. Neat animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXd1PlGur8M&feature=fvw

[daytonaredeye]

A couple of animations a little easier on the eyes than in the first post.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine1.htm The animations on this page are specifically dedicated to the 4 cycles of IC engines

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine2.htm Figure 4 on this page is an animation of opposed inline pistons -like the boxer design. The boxer, of course, has only 1 set of opposed pistons as opposed to the 2 sets in fig 4.

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