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Originally Posted by tasdrouille
That is your opinion. A counter argument could be that a WAI increased the burn rate. Or if you increase the injection pressure, you get higher combustion temperature and more heat transfer, yet better BSFC. The point is, I think it helps, you think it doesn't, but none of us have put an engine on a dyno to test it appropriately.
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Fortunately this has been well studied. This is on a naturally aspirated engine. See the lower half of page 11 and figure 14 in the appendix.
http://aerade.cranfield.ac.uk/ara/1937/naca-tn-619.pdf
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Originally Posted by JoJotheTireMan
No, not a diesel.
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Good.