Carbureted compression ignition model engine

Okay, so have you ever seen a toy car with an engine? Well, imagine a real car but smaller and it has an engine inside it. This engine makes the car go. But do you know how the engine works?

Well, let me tell you! An engine needs something called "fuel" to make it work. It's like giving your car a snack so it has energy to move. The fuel used in this type of engine is called "diesel".

To make the diesel work, the engine needs to do two things: compress the air and mix fuel with the air. It's like baking a cake! You need to mix all the ingredients together and then put it in the oven. Except in this case, you compress the ingredients before you mix them.

The way you compress the air is by having something called a "compression ratio". This means you squish the air in the engine really hard so it becomes very small. When the air becomes very small, it becomes very hot.

The hot air is mixed with the diesel fuel in something called a "carburetor". This is like a funnel where the air and fuel come together. The mixture is then put into the engine and set on fire.

When the mixture is set on fire, it explodes and pushes a little part inside the engine called a "piston". The piston moves back and forth really fast, which makes the wheels of the car turn.

So that's how a carbureted compression ignition model engine works! It's like baking a cake in a toy car!