Can that happen?..

[veryoldfart]

ref the picture/painting of Dennis Priddles Chrysler Avenger AAFC, can two adjacent cylinders be alight at the same time?....

just wondered.....dont hit me

(painting as per ED of course, im not putting a link up cos i love my kneecaps)....lol

Edited by veryoldfart on Thursday 14th April 16:05

[fergywales]

1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2

[chris89]

my understanding is that the firing order on a v8 is 18436572.

in the picture it has cylinders 5 and 7 going together, which are together in the firing stroke. If the picture was taken from a photo where the camera had a relativly slow shutter speed then this effect could be possible.

No doubt someone will come and tell me I have this wrong, but in the mean time I hope this helps

chris

Edited by chris89 on Thursday 14th April 12:02

Mod Edit - Sorry chap, no signatures

Edited by Slinky on Thursday 14th April 12:15

[fergywales]

Not wrong chris, however, you'd struggle to find a car running nitro that still runs that firing order, 4/7 & 2/3 swaps being the order of the day (4/7 = 1-8-7-3-6-5-4-2 and 4/7&2/3 = 1-8-7-2-6-5-4-3) now that setback blowers have changed the characteristics of how the fuel enters the manifold.

[veryoldfart]

fergywales said:

1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2

that could be the firing order but even i know you cant have two firing at the same time!

[fergywales]

veryoldfart said:

that could be the firing order but even i know you cant have two firing at the same time!

Take RPM into consideration there old fella.

Perhaps have a look at some of the slo-mo burnout videos posted around the internet of cars burning out, much easier to see what is going on when a cylinder is dropped.

[Modernpics]

Ahem!


Nitromethane is pretty slow burning so its possible to get images of both banks lit with out any great difficulty

Edited by Modernpics on Thursday 14th April 18:21

[veryoldfart]

fergywales said:

Take RPM into consideration there old fella.

Perhaps have a look at some of the slo-mo burnout videos posted around the internet of cars burning out, much easier to see what is going on when a cylinder is dropped.

I agree, PLUS, back then, the cars were (seemingly) revving lower on higher % of nitro (and were noiser i reckon), ive looked at the slo-mo vids on youtube and they are pretty inconclusive (big scrabble score for that), so its one for artistic licence maybe....

[martyn b]

cliff gould said:

does he run a boat cam?

I thought boat cams were reserved for Jags (aka boat anchors)... [Sorry Sid, just kidding ]