Search results

We still don't know what exactly Continental did to achieve VCR. Clearly, this engine never went into mass-production. Guessing high cost was a big factor, as well as many more parts to fail...

It actually works by varying the oil pressure in the crank. Here's some reading to it and two (hydraulic) schematics, taken directly from Toyota's patent: (still need to find the list of components, in order to better understand all those numbers...) "Toyota idea takes a conventional...

This is just one of multiple solutions for VCR.... Not sure though, which way they went at Continental. The brochure talks about hydraulically operated pistons "whose position relative to the crank pin ...." so I guess what they used are these variable-length con rods, with their eccentric...