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Make small engines great again
Dynamometer time?
Since about 85% of the population doesn't live in California or a state with California like emissions standards and about 98% of us don't live in a top 15 air pollution city there's no point in wasting fuel and missing out on power because of mu emissions.
Everything robot cantina did to their 212cc and 420cc engines to make them go faster and gave them more power also improved fuel economy. Which is opposite of how it usually works on car engines.
These little engines were being ran pretty much wide open throttle all the time so don't expect the same on a full size car engine.
This episode of robot chicken there is a dynamometer being used.
https://youtu.be/QZJ5J_CFFDs
Pretty simple. I have a non functioning table saw I could use as a stand.
I was considering doing a timing advance test and timing advance test then this drops:
https://youtu.be/TX3LY4fPNRI
My observations concur, no benefit to running midgrade or premium in a stock small engine.
My plan was doing like 2, 4 and maybe 6 degrees of timing advance and he goes straight for a 12 degree advance....
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Last edited by oil pan 4; 07-11-2023 at 03:02 PM..
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