Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished..... If you want ON or OFF the DIESEL ”KnOcK” LIST just FReepmail me..... This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days.....
Posted on 08/09/2017 2:45:14 PM PDT by Red Badger
I hope it smells like a cox 049
Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished..... If you want ON or OFF the DIESEL ”KnOcK” LIST just FReepmail me..... This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days.....
Does this mean gas mileage goes up 20-30%?
That brings back childhood memories!.....................
New engine design aside, I am not trading my good ole’ piston powered German and American muscle for something new.
“Missile Mist”
Not necessarily, EFFICIENCY: improved engine efficiency up to 20 to 30 percent....................
Gee, when I was a kid, dad had an old DC Case tractor that we would start on gasoline and after she warmed up we would switch it over to kerosene for work in the field, then switch it back to gasoline before shutdown. This was an old crank tractor with a magneto.
What are the compression ratios? 25:1? I wouldn’t expect the engine to hold up as long as a spark engine under the pressures required, whatever they are.
Interesting........never heard of such a machine..............
imho the 2020’s are going to be another golden age of automobiles like the 1950’s and 1960’s. Why? There are going to be two kinds of cars; electric and internal combustion engine cars. With maybe a third hydrogen powered cars coming in later. the competition between the systems will force down prices broadly while increasing fuel efficiency. The quality of the workmanship will necessarily increase—because of competition— so the working lives of the cars will go over 200k. (Remember electric cars may currently have bugs but when the bugs are got out—their fewer parts will mean much less maintenance. Internal combustion cars will have to get better to compete. Plus the tools available to turn style ideas into working models will just be astounding. They’re already amazing.
Not necessarily true. Diesel engines can and do run for multi hundred-thousands of miles.
So it’s NOT a gasoline engine using compression ignition. It only does that part of the time!
Gasoline is very volatile. It should be interesting to see how this works.
Im sure you had that prop cut finger and recall the sting of cox fuel getting in it
Wonder what the compression ratio is....?
Now, THAT is a great memory....an .020, even better...
Heavy truck diesels can run for over a million miles. Of course, those engines weigh as much or more than the average car.
I though the problem was always that gasoline only burns as a vapor, but under high compression it always liquefies.
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