52 Development of a Four-stroke Engine with Turbo Charger for Personal Watercraft Honda R&D Company, Limited

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

KUROSAKI, Takaharu, author.

Conference Name:

Small Engine Technology Conference & Exposition (2002-10-29 : Kyoto, Japan)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource cm

Place of Publication:

Tokyo, JAPAN Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan 2002

Summary:

There is a movement to apply emission control in a marine engine as well due to high public awareness of environmental concern in the United States. We started at the development of 3-seater Personal Watercraft (PWC) equipped with 4-stroke engines in taking environment conformity and potential into account. The PWC employed series 4-cylinder 1100cc displacement engine that has been used for mass production motorcycles. The engine was modified to satisfy requirements for PWC, as a marine engine, such as performance function and corrosion. In order to achieve greater or equal power/weight ratio as against two-stroke PWCs, a four-stroke engine for PWC with an exhaust turbo charger was developed. As a result, we succeeded in developing an engine that attained top-level running performance and durability superior to competitors' 2-stroke engines. Emission performance of the engine satisfied EPA 2006 and CARB 2004 regulation while fuel economy was also improved 16% compared with competitors' 2-stroke engines

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Publisher Number:

2002-32-1821

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