Direct Injection Gas Engines
With the trend to direct injection gas engines what happens going down a hill on compression. Diesel engines without intake butterflies have little hold back on compression, so I assume that gassers w...
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45Ricochet wrote:
Somehow I don't think you have ever taken apart a car, and figured out what is inside.
Ouch! That must have left a mark :B
Well coming from someone that made this statement:
"When I owned a 1984 Diesel Isuzu, it had a manual transmission, and was great at slowing down by downshifting. The fully open air intake fills the cylinders with air, and then without your foot on the throttle, only a tiny amount of idle fuel level is injected, so barely any fuel is added to the cylinders, and you get a lot of braking action."
I passed off as someone that is not to informed about where the energy goes in a cylinder that is compress and then de-compresses, and that most off the energy is returned to the crank. but let him believe what he believes!!! Chris
