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Originally Posted by Logic
The right side does seem darker, indication a less complete burn..?: Ideally HC+O2=H2O +C right?
So theres no getting away from carbon/soot.
Not Ideal combustion is what gives you CO and CO2 gas,reducing C..? If It's unburned HCs; that's a different story.
Perhaps they stick and get the C to stick?
The mess seen on the upwind side of intake valves seems to bear out this sticky hypothesis. |
Your chemistry looks good to me
but I'm no Chemist lol
As far as a complete burn I really don't know. I'm just glad that this experiment gives me the same results my engine sees.
There is one thing that worries a little bit. My tops of my pistons are so clean it looks like they never have been in an engine. After talking to a Red Bull F1 engineer he said on their hybrid engines today they actually rely on a slight buildup of carbon on top the pistons to act as a barrier coat at maximum power. It will burn most of it off at this point and then at lower power settings it will recoat itself for the next maximum power event. Crazy stuff for sure. Now I might be doing this already when I go from 30:1 A/F to 12.0:1 A/F and I just don't know it.