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Originally Posted by Daox
I completely agree with SVOboy for said reasons. You'll be spewing out a fair amount of NOx which has the lovely side effect of creating acid rain.
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Yep, if I just lean burn a little. The instant you go above the stoich you start doing that, so you could just set the initial setting for the potentiometer to be greater ratio than that.
So you have the option of running normal or running pretty heavily lean-burn(26:1+). At 26 you're on the asymptotic downcurve of NOx so you'll be producing some but not a mountain or as much as diesels produce in their driving range.
That said I'm really considering it for a couple of reasons.
1.) Its hard to convert heat in the exhaust to useful FE work.
2.) If I am going to have to suffer high pressure drag on the nose of my car shouldn't I put that to work for me?
3.) It could entirely replace cruise control with a DWL cruise control(Throttle open all the way all the time and just push the resistance down as you want more power).
Besides you could incorporate it in a hand throttle unit. And you could have the pleasure of explaining that no it is not turbine powered.