Millenia engine info
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- 2001 Mazda MP3
yes, it was supercharged.
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- 2002 BJFW, 2007 BK3P, 1979 SA22C, 2005 BK3P
the 2.3 miller cycle relied on the supercharger to operate. basically, remove the SC and it no longer works.
The standard four-stroke engines described in How Car Engines Work are called Otto-cycle engines. They are named after Nikolaus Otto, who invented this type of engine in 1867. In the same way, Diesel-cycle engines are named after inventor Rudolf Diesel.
Ralph Miller patented his Miller-cycle engine in the 1940s, and for the last several years Mazda has been using this type of engine in some of its cars.
A Miller-cycle engine is very similar to an Otto-cycle engine. The Miller-cycle uses pistons, valves, a spark plug, etc., just like an Otto-cycle engine does. There are two big differences:
The standard four-stroke engines described in How Car Engines Work are called Otto-cycle engines. They are named after Nikolaus Otto, who invented this type of engine in 1867. In the same way, Diesel-cycle engines are named after inventor Rudolf Diesel.
Ralph Miller patented his Miller-cycle engine in the 1940s, and for the last several years Mazda has been using this type of engine in some of its cars.
A Miller-cycle engine is very similar to an Otto-cycle engine. The Miller-cycle uses pistons, valves, a spark plug, etc., just like an Otto-cycle engine does. There are two big differences:
- A Miller-cycle engine depends on a supercharger.
- A Miller-cycle engine leaves the intake valve open during part of the compression stroke, so that the engine is compressing against the pressure of the supercharger rather than the pressure of the cylinder walls. The effect is increased efficiency, at a level of about 15 percent.
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- 2002 BJFW, 2007 BK3P, 1979 SA22C, 2005 BK3P
"The Autorotor is a belt driven supercharger operating on the twin-screw Lysholm principle. The Lysholm principle was conceived to give three primary advantages over all other style superchargers: volumetric efficiency, reduced drive power requirement, and lowered discharge temperatures. The continuous flow path of the air charge and the internal compression ratio are the concepts that permitted the goals to be met. The net achievement is the highest volumetric and thermal efficiency ever designed into a mechanically driven supercharger. Opcon Autorotor AB has done the job well, it is clearly the premier supercharger in the world today. This marvelous achievement was acknowledged by none other than Mazda themselves by their choice of this design for the Millenia sedan. The Lysholm/Autorotor as fit to the Millenia is manufactured under Swedish license by IHI Corp. of Japan specifically for the Millenia. "
screw type, ihi manufactured supercharger. some pictures of it
i don't know what the engine code is but it's very similar to the kl-03 engine. i think it's still considered a k series, but the code itself i'm not sure
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screw type, ihi manufactured supercharger. some pictures of it
i don't know what the engine code is but it's very similar to the kl-03 engine. i think it's still considered a k series, but the code itself i'm not sure
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- 2002 BJFW, 2007 BK3P, 1979 SA22C, 2005 BK3P
the KLZE was the JDM 2.5 like the ones that drop into Probes/626s/MX6s and maybe even....Protegesvodapas77 said:
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It's a 2.3 litre K series V6. KJ-ZEM. Very cool engine design, indeed. But good luck getting it to work with any ECU other than the factory one; The ECU was practically sentient, because it had to be; No intake valves means strange cam/timing adjustments.
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