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Old 09-23-2009, 11:10 AM
Mike D Mike D is offline
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Wow! All I can say is , wow!

Diesel is injected at high pressure (up to 1,800 bar) giving a constant, even and complete combustion – and more miles per gallon.

Is 1800 bar even possible? That's like, umm, 26,000 p.s.i.! Yikes! I wonder how they a: manage to compress/pressurise the fuel and b: how they manage to inject it without blasting through the pistons? Talk about some critical timing issues! This is not an engine which would tolerate much wear.
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