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Old 03-14-2013, 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Zulfiqar View Post
it must be having some pretty cool stuff to get a 14:1 diesel to start.
they have improved so much the injection over the past years, now we can get so much more power and so much less smoke

I want to say the skyactiv does all this without the urea injection or lean-NOx trap, which is particularly interesting.

It seems the sweet spot for compression is somewhere around 13 - 15, as it gets more, the heat is too much and it gets lost into the cooling water...
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