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The trabi is a car specifically designed with a set of constraints: - to be cheap - to be easy to manufacture with no need of low tolerance parts - to be easy t
by magwas 7y ago
The trabi is a car specifically designed with a set of constraints:
- to be cheap
- to be easy to manufacture with no need of low tolerance parts
- to be easy to repair without much equipment
Those design goals were met perfectly. And the 2 stroke motor line designed by eastern german engineers for MZ bikes and Trabi is actually an engineering miracle of the time.
The compression is partly achieved by the sound wave reflected by the exhaust.
- ptaipale 7y ago> The compression is partly achieved by the sound wave reflected by the exhaust. It's more a "backflow" than "sound wave", but yes, it's there. It's been standard in two-stroke engines for much longer than Trabi. And it's an invention from the national-socialist era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_chamber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_chamber