Riedel 2 cylinder starter motor

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Riedel 2 cylinder starter motor

Post by Tom Smith » Sun Apr 10, 2011 10:14 pm

Riedel twin 2 stroke without its fuel tank, shrouds, magneto etc. I know someone who has one, his father found it in an ME 262 hanger when the war ended and he brought it back to California. Nobody even knew what one was in WW2. Probably make a sweet little kart engine. The piston crown in the cutaway model kind of looks like a WB 820 piston, only about 20 years before West Bend built a loop scavenged 2 stroke.
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Re: Riedel 2 cylinder starter motor

Post by Jacob Jay » Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:25 pm

That is a very cool looking engine.

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Re: Riedel 2 cylinder starter motor

Post by Jeff Campbell » Fri Apr 22, 2011 9:57 am

That is a really neat twin, I had to hear one run .. so I found this video..
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I'd be curious to find out more about the porting and induction ... it does appear to have flat top pistons, but that cutaway doesn't look like loop scavenge type porting (I think this motor is long before that porting technology) ... maybe it a cross flow scavenged with the intake port angled up like boost ports in a modern motor?


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Re: Riedel 2 cylinder starter motor

Post by Tom Smith » Fri May 06, 2011 2:31 am

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