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Old 01-13-2017, 08:19 PM   #119 (permalink)
RustyLugNut
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You have received good information and advice which is what you asked for. However, you blatantly pick and choose what you want to believe.

I have worked on engines at the university level. Engines with borosilicate windows to film the combustion process show that 99 % of the fuel is burned within the power stroke of the engine. Only in rich running full power pulls will you see flames coming out of your exhaust. At stoichiometric mixes - nothing. Other than fuel slip in the rings and up against the quench areas ( and these are reduced in modern engines with adequate chamber turbulance) a balanced mix will burn within the cylinder to the tune of 98-99%. If you think your experience and education give you more insight into the subject, then I can't help you.

And elhig is right, this is a good topic that might get dumped into the Corral simply because you refuse to discuss the concerns others bring up. The science of combustion is complex but vapor phase combustion is not a magic bullet everyone in the 200 mpg community thinks it is. There is some efficiency to be had in the percentile range depending on caveats. Insistence on otherwise simply becomes drudgery.
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