Talk:Straight-three engine

Saab

> Morven: Two-stroke SAABs no longer produced.

no, (unfortunately....) but they are still running !

Added Justy

Added Justy, which is also a 1.2L (1189cc) inline-3. 82.44.163.79 14:50, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

No. I disgaree strongly.

Forsa + Firefly

Suzuki Forsa / Pontiac Firefly / Geo Metro was 3 cars with the same motor, L3 1.0Liters from Suzuki

Suzuki 3-cylinder engines

My wife has one of these, with the 996CC 3 cylinder engine. It has a 180-degree crank angle. I'm extremely dubious about the statement that this is so unusual. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Number774 (talk • contribs) 14:13, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

What about tractors?

Valmet 565 tractors manufactured between 1964-68 had a straight-3 diesel engine with a displacement of 2685 cc. The engine configurations articles seem to be generally more about cars and motorcycles.

I agree, some european tractor manufacturers like the Valmet 33, 359, 565 synchro etc., Nuffield (universal three), or Fordson (Marque of Ford tractors before late 1970's) in it's Dexta and Super Dexta, used diesel inline 3s as powerplants. These had a displacement of usually around 2- to 3-liters and they were notable in their time, for example Valmet's 3-cyl being one of the first of its kind to have direct injection. And these were far larger than the Alfa diesel, and appeared long before it did. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.220.135.173 (talk) 13:17, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Compound Expansion

Is this link relevant?

http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/POWER/unusualICeng/compoundIC/compoundIC.htm

It describes historic attempts to build a 180 degree inline triple compound expansion internal combustion engines. The outer pistons rise and fall in phase, firing alternately on the 4-stroke cycle. The centre piston is 180 degrees out of phase and has a larger displacement. The outer cylinders exhaust alternately into the inner cylinder, which therefore has one power stroke per revolution. As described, these were not successful due to high energy losses in the valves.Chris Corney (talk) 17:31, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: article not moved Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{WrestleMania XXVIII} _{The Undertaker 20–0} 14:00, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

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I appreciate this is a provocative move done in response to discussions at Talk:Straight-two engine but Inline-triple engine clearly meets Wikipedia naming policy better.

Thank you. --Bridge Boy (talk) 14:32, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

• strong oppose See WP:ANI and the debacle at straight-two engine. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:44, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose There isn't overwhelming proof that one term is more common than the other, and both are accepted by authorities like the OED, motorcycling authors, and automobile writers. Moving it is a pointless re-shuffle. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 16:23, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose - no compelling reason to change something that fits well with all the other articles. --Biker Biker (talk) 17:28, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

• Strong support according to the references. Straight-two's credibility has already been lost and so we cannot use that as a starting point. --Bridge Boy (talk) 19:55, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

• Oppose nominator makes no mention of what criteria the proposed name meets. -- 70.49.127.65 (talk) 04:53, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

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SAAB inline triple and Popular Mechanics Mar 1988

Look, it is obvious what is going on here but being reasonable, I think a reference to an extreme obscure and vintage SAAB inline triple automobile hardly befits the lede nor supports the re-naming of the topic.

Unless you have better sources, I am afraid we'll have to revert it and title back to something that fits Wikipedia naming policy better, e.g. common.

Ditto, the "Popular Mechanics Mar 1988" reference is a prediction of the future, and not something real or that happened. "Wikipedia is not a crystal ball" (WP:BALL}, it should not to be based on unverified speculations. From that article, the oval piston concept failed terribly; it just feels a little weak to me.

Thanks. --Bridge Boy (talk) 20:03, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Were they predicting that people would use the term "inline three" in the future, or were they using the current terminology to describe what might happen with the concept being described? Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 21:40, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

If you would like more citations in favour of "inline three", here is a sampling:

• Dorries, Elisabeth H. (Dec 1, 2004). "Section 2 Engine Operation and Support Systems". TechOne: Automotive Engine Repair. Cengage Learning. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-40185-941-1. An engine may have the cylinders arranged in one line, an inline three-, four-, five-, six-, or eight-cylinder engine, for example. The cylinders are in a row, one behind the other.
• Domino, Kevin (Dec 1, 2009). "Chapter Three The Right Machine". The Perfect Motorcycle: How to Choose, Find and Buy the Perfect New or Used Bike. Photographs and contributions by Lee Klancher. 671 Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-98217-333-6. An opposed twin has "R" in its name, while an inline three- or four-cylinder model has a "K", and single cylinder or parallel twin has an "F."

Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 02:25, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Yanmar/Gator Inline3s

dunno how to add citations... http://www.deere.com/wps/dcom/en_US/products/equipment/gator_utility_vehicles/crossover_utility_vehicles/825i/825i.page? Gator 825i info, dunno who builds this engine for Deere though. http://www.deere.com/wps/dcom/en_US/products/equipment/gator_utility_vehicles/crossover_utility_vehicles/855d/855d.page? http://www.polaris.com/en-us/ranger-utv/utility-vehicle/ranger-diesel/specifications http://www.kawasaki.com/products/product-specifications.aspx?id=533 855D, Ranger Diesel, Mule Diesel

Inline 3s in tractors http://www.deere.com/wps/dcom/en_INT/products/equipment/compact_utility_tractors/1_series/subcompact/premium/1026r/1026r.page? http://www.caseih.com/en_us/Products/Tractors/Pages/compact-tractors.aspx http://agriculture.newholland.com/us/en/Products/Compact-Tractors-and-Commercial-Mowers/Boomer-Sub-Compact/Pages/products_techinfo.aspx

Yanmar Inline 3 engine http://us.yanmar.com/products/industrial-engines/search/?engine-cooling=water&engine-epa-or-export=epa — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.235.89.234 (talk) 21:49, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Take a look at WP:CT and use the {{cite web}} template to turn the links above in to references. Thanks for putting the work in to finding them. --Biker Biker (talk) 22:44, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Volkswagen

It looks to me like the article is out of date, VW has been using 1.0 litre engines for a couple of years now 86.155.27.168 (talk) 22:41, 14 June 2019 (UTC)