Diesel vs gas......................
OK folks, there have been a few to many diesel vs gas threads that have shall we say gone to "Hell and a hand basket"! So if all of you would put in you BEST, no flaming reasons for going gas vs diese...
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ohioviper wrote:
That makes absolutely no sense at all.
You might want to rethink that one.The more compression the more powerful the combustion = more head pressure = more force against the headgaskets.
Wow, you're really streching now. In your previous post, you stated that higher compression causes higher cylinder pressure. By itself, it does not because it is much lower than combustion pressure. Now you come back with higher combustion pressure.....
If you would take a moment and consider what you are saying, you would relize that your above statement isn't correct. The non-turbo'd 7.3 PSD had higher compression than a 6.0 gasser, but the gasser has much higher power and, therefore, much higher cylinder pressure. Higher compression by itself does not equal higher power.
You might also want to have a look at aircraft piston engines. All aluminum and they are producing a lot more power in many cases than the diesels we drive.
Bert
