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52 Development of a Four-stroke Engine with Turbo Charger for Personal Watercraft
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2002-32-1821
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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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KUROSAKI, T., OKADA, K., and YOKOTANI, H., "52 Development of a Four-stroke Engine with Turbo Charger for Personal Watercraft," SAE Technical Paper 2002-32-1821, 2002.Also In
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- Shogase, H. et al. Introduction of Personal Watercrafts AquaTrax F-12/F-12X Installing a 4-Stroke Engine Honda R&D Technical Review 14 l 2002