Fuel Air Diesel engine induction

[hoss karoly]

Gordon Couger wrote:
> 
> >> Dirty little diesel secret.  Propane. 
> It works great. Just watch your exuast gas temperture. You can melt down
> a turbo or and engin this way. I don't know if it is still being done
> but in the 60's & 70's it was used to get you through the "hard spots"
> by some folks. If they didn't over use it they seemed to get by pretty
> well.

what would you suggest to keep my exh-temp at ?
do you know some base-lines like max temp ?

> 
> It would be interesting to see what you could do with propane injection
> and water injection to keep the temperatures under control.

it definitely will be  

> One thing I wonder about with water injection is high pressure steam is
> pretty corosive stuff. I would worry about piston, valve and turbo
> errosion.

I don't worry about it too much . I don't plan to stop the engine right
after 
full throttle operation so she'll get time to get clean