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misiek08today at 4:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

You meant - awful knocking combustion in the first, main animation? I never catches any real bug is those great posts, but this one, especially as first animation on the page - weird.


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Toutouxctoday at 5:46 PM

You might be misreading the animation. It's a direct injection engine, the thing that happens during the compression stroke is fuel injection. Ignition happens a few degrees before TDC, which is realistic.

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lostlogintoday at 5:55 PM

One of the rare situations where someone wants a bit of retard?

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