My Two Stroke 3 cylinder 900cc DKW 3=6 Cold Start
I was surprised my old 1958 DKW 3=6 Sonderklasse started so easily. It's a 3 cylinder, 2 stroke, 900cc water cooled wonder. You can't run 50/50 antifreeze in a hydrosyphon cooling system, it does not flow and will overheat the engine. I run 3-5%. anti freeze, some corrosion inhibitor, and water wetter. Pre-mixed 40:1. oil ratio. Sometimes it blows smoke rings. This is the 1st start in some time so the exhaust is unusually smoky. It was really cold two weeks ago, in the teens. I run straight distilled water in the hydro-syphon cooling system and was afraid it would freeze up. It didn't thankfully, and today actually started. I'm very happy, and took it on a long drive today to celebrate. We got lots of thumbs up. Here's some Holiday two stroke smoke and musical poppity-pop 2 stroke exhaust noises.
About DKW
DKW was a German car and motorcycle marque. DKW was one of the four companies that formed Auto Union in 1932 and thus became an ancestor of the modern-day Audi company. In 1916, Danish engineer Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen founded a factory in Zschopau, Saxony, Germany, to produce steam fittings. That year he attempted to produce a steam-power car; German: Dampfkraftwagen, from which the acronym DKW is derived. That steam car was unsuccessful, and in 1919 he made toy two-stroke engines under the nam...
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