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Old 09-22-2010, 09:11 PM   #26 (permalink)
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wow ok that changes things a bit I had always assumed it was by volume. thats actually a rather TINY amount of gasoline. The energy needed to heat that much gasoline would be virtually irrelevant. heck the residual heat of the cylinder probable heats it up quite nicely before combustion.
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