X engine
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The X-engine is a type of pistonless rotary engine manufactured by LiquidPiston of Bloomfield, Connecticut. The X engine is a hybrid cycle rotary engine.
An X engine is a piston engine with four banks of cylinders around a common crankshaft, such that the cylinders form an "X" shape when viewed front-on. The advantage of an X engine is that it is shorter than a V engine of the same number of cylinders, however the drawbacks are greater weight and complexity as compared to a radial engine. Therefore, the configuration has been rarely used. Several of the X engine designs were based on combining two V engines. ==References==
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