Gentlemen,

The reason that I called the diesel expert was that I hoped that he'd be on the net and could come to this site so we all could quiz him but alas, he doesn't even have a computer.

Wish mplafleur was out this way so we could instrument the car and really see exactly what's happening. I can tell you that if you pull over immediately after a freeway run, pop the hood and feel both the inlet and outlet of the intercooler, you can't leave your hand on the inlet side while the outlet is ambient temp.

As a point of info, the Germans had a four diesel engine floatplane that they used for the TransAtlantic mail run before the Second WW.

A German company, Zoche builds a five cylinder, diesel radial aircraft engine and the French firm Socata builds a flat opposed six that is diesel. They believe that it will be the aircraft engine of the future as it's almost as light as the gas engines but you can find diesel fuel in any third world country. In the U.S. many airports don't stock Avgas any more, so the French plane would fuel up with jet fuel. Also, diesel is much cheaper than avgas and the diesel engine is more fuel efficient.

I'm off to see the diesel expert Tuesday to show him the "Super Diesel" and will ask him some of the questions debated here.
Maybe later I could get him over to the house and on line one weekend, to answer all comers.

Time to relax, been painting all day.

Ben
www.reproduce100s.com