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To: Paladin2

From their Website:

How long would it take to develop a diesel powered Duke?

We know that the SI Duke engine runs on kerosene (JetA1) with few changes from an optimised petrol version. During our forth-coming test program we intend to try the engines on Diesel fuel as it is not greatly different (chemically speaking) from kerosene. We have high hopes that the Duke engine will become the the world’s first internal combustion engine to run on such a wide variety of fuels. Using spark ignition Duke engines with heavy fuels will result in much smaller and lighter engines than comparative compression ignition Diesel engines. We will release our test results as they become available.


18 posted on 06/23/2015 1:11:12 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

IHave a Jeep YJ that would benefit fron installing an appropriately sized TD.


21 posted on 06/23/2015 1:13:39 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Red Badger
We have high hopes that the Duke engine will become the the world’s first internal combustion engine to run on such a wide variety of fuels.

That's not true. M35 2 1/2 ton truck could be run on gas/diesel/kerosene.

41 posted on 06/23/2015 1:37:25 PM PDT by j. earl carter
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