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Honestly, the calculations were just numbers that quantified the actual actions that occur in a diesel power stroke, and to show that diesels don't run at stoich (or anywhere near it, through the power stroke) I knew the numbers were incorrect, and I thought it was kind of obvious as well.

The point was still conveyed, that diesels don't have a "bang" for a power stroke, so much as a constant expansion of gasses, which is the primary reason for the massive torque curve they tend to have. (Or torque plane, as some prefer to call it.)

If you look closely, you'll also notice that the power strokes timings are completely wrong in what I said as well... producing the initial combustion at TDC (as opposed to before TDC) would mean that the combustion event would have to "catch up" with the engine's rotation, which is no good for torque. Also, if the injector continued to spray fuel until the piston was at BDC, as in that post, you'd have fuel burning in your exhaust stroke, which would create (worst case scenario) a serious fire breathing machine with lots of wasted fuel.

And with that, we're VERY off-topic on this discussion, and should probably take the (completely unrelated) diesel talk elsewhere, so as not to hijack/clog this thread any more than we already have.