> That suggests most people don’t know about 2-stroke diesels For anyone curious, the Detroit Diesel, aka the Screamin’ Jimmy, is the canonical example of a 2-

> That suggests most people don’t know about 2-stroke diesels For anyone curious, the Detroit Diesel, aka the Screamin’ Jimmy, is the canonical example of a 2-stroke diesel. Fun fact: these engines all have a supercharger — which is required to start the engines - but are considered naturally aspirated. GM also made turbo-charged variants (which still had the roots blower for starting) that are properly forced-induction. A few videos: Short video demonstrating the distinctive 2-stroke diesel sound: https://youtube.com/shorts/kp5aHCRAORs https://youtube.com/shorts/kp5aHCRAORs These things were kind of prone to running away, with a lots of myth and folklore about catastrophic explosions and death and destruction, so there are a fair number of Youtube videos where people rig these things to run away. This is, without a doubt, on many levels, the best example of the genre: https://youtu.be/bLRF-LRgvJk https://youtu.be/bLRF-LRgvJk