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Originally Posted by JackG
Sounds a little scary 
I wonder though, could diesel be raised to a point of vaporization
before injecting into the cyl. and would it have the potential of radically
increased mpg? |
The NACA had a paper on this. It does work to some extent but you have to mess with your injection timing because at higher temperatures diesel fuel becomes more compressible.
go here and search for NACA-tn-565
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp
another article is NACA-report-435
http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/report.php?NID=1082
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