Is there any website that..

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Tells you in detail on every step once you turn the ignition key till you shut the engine down. I'm very interested in knowing how an otto cycle car really works, including the technical terms. Howstuffworks.com only teaches you how individual components function but not the whole cycle.

Appreciate any answers.

 

[Whisky_Tango]

Yo bro...

Hows this website http://techni.tachemie.uni-leipzig.de/otto/index_e.html

1) Intake stroke is sucking air into the chamber where the air valve is pushed open by the rocker arms.
2) Compression stroke is when the piston is in the upwards motion and both exhaust and air valves are closed.
3) Combustion stroke is when the spark plug ignite and create an explosion. This is the only stroke that produces WORK DONE and pushes the piston downwards.
4) Exhaust stroke is pushing out the combusted gases through the open exhaust valve.

This is an illustration for one cylinder and piston.

I try to find some animation for 4 cylinders and 6 cylinders engine.

Hope this helps.

 

[Whisky_Tango]

Here is a better illustration of the otto cycle.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine4.htm

Once you understand the otto cycle, go to 2nd page for Inline 4, V6 and boxer engine animation.

Cheers!

 

[Shaun]

Re: Is there any website that..

Tells you in detail on every step once you turn the ignition key till you shut the engine down. I'm very interested in knowing how an otto cycle car really works, including the technical terms. Howstuffworks.com only teaches you how individual components function but not the whole cycle.

Appreciate any answers.

Since you have the interest and want to get technical, you should buy books. For otto cycle reciprocating piston SI IC engines, read Charles Fayette Taylor's two volumes, or books by Heinz Heisler. For performance focus, Gordon Blair's 4 stroke head book is very good. So is Dr. John C. Morrison's high speed engine gas dynamics book. Seminar video tapes by Hans Hermann too.

If you should become interested in aero, chassis, suspension, tire, brake systems - **the Milliken brothers, Joseph Katz, **Paul Van Valkenburgh, **Carroll Smith, Paul Haney, Fred Puhn, Herb Adams - all good.