On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 4:32:20 PM UTC-8, wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 13:52:47 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 12:39:11 PM UTC-8, Boating All Out wrote:
In article ,
says...


Here's a link that works.

http://tinyurl.com/njrwkpk


Exactly. In the early 90's there were several experimental Buick's running around for testing. They neither had a starter or alternator on them. The idea of no starter was that the crank position sensor would know which piston had just gone over TDC and when you hit the key would inject bit of fuel and spark turning the engine over then typical ignition would occur.

You still need compression.


true, but not really much. even with a low compression it was thought that there would be enough 'blow' to roll the engine over to catch another - like you were saying about the shotgun shell rolling over a large radial .