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Old 04-05-2012, 08:24 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
You don't reduce compression when turboing a diesel... that I know of anyway. That's common practice for gassers.
Not always, sometimes yes, if you have 21:1 compression ratio (NA diesel) Turbo diesels are usually 16-19:1. If one wants to use E85 and convert it with spark plugs and all that, I don't think that 21:1 with turbo will work?

In study they had turbo diesel TDI engine and that has 16.5:1 compression I guess?

So to get it to work, it is perhaps needed to lower compression a bit to level they had in that study?

That is why I would like to read whole study to learn more parameters from it so I could tell what would be needed with application in my mind.

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