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Old 11-09-2005, 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by pawoSD
Its an excellent idea that is not quite properly executed. Glow plugs are designed to produce an insane amount of white-hot heat on a very small little spot, an alternative would be to construct something along the lines of a "heatsink" that the glowplug could insert into, which fuel flowed through with a lot of surface area and turbulance, so it heats up well and without a concentrated hotspot like that.

Computer watercooling heatsink blocks come into mind.....except modified so they get real hot with a glowplug, I don't think it'd be all that hard.

I agree your current setup will probably vaporize/coke up the fuel along the way unless you increase the surface area or drastically lower the voltage (at which point it'd probably be useless anyways)
What is a "heatsink" design? What is used to build this with a glowplug as the heating element?
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