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Originally Posted by Grant-53
This is why I keep my textbooks on thermodynamics. A wise man does know when to share and when to keep quiet. When Smokey Yunnick was explaining his engine to the Detroit engineers, he had his lawyer present. I have worked at more than one job where cameras were banned.
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I really think there is enough of a skill set here on Ecomodder to duplicate the work of Smokey and bring it up to date if there wasn't such a stigma against anything in the Unicorn Corral. Many things need to be in the Corral and deservedly so, but some items warrant a look and some investigative builds. Hot vapor engines are one of them. A simple bubble through vapor system would have been informative. Additional improvements would have given us even more insight. Heating the fuel makes the vapor capable of adding to the enthalpy. Heating the air is the next logical step. Of course, at this point, detonation can become a problem depending on the engine parameters. We can then explore the lean burn characteristics of hot fuel vapors. I truly think this is the "efficiency gains" people stumble upon when doing the investigation and attribute the gains to some hocus pocus or fringe science. We don't question the Honda Crowd's ability to run their engines at 22:1 Air to Fuel ratio. Let's see if a hot vapor engine can exceed that, and by how much.