Spark plugs/injectors

[Gary Derian]

Interesting idea but how is this different than a diesel except for having
high temperature, volatile fuel pumping around instead of low temp, less
volatile fuel?
Gary Derian <gderian at cybergate.net>

>
>How about this?  (I was thinking of patenting it but what the heck...)
>
>Instead of a spark, heat the fuel without air to a temperature suitable
>for combustion.  This, of course, will raise the pressure of the fuel.
>At the appropriate time, upen a valve and allow the hot fuel to squirt
>into the hot compressed air in the cylinder.  You can use just about
>anything you want (as long as it's flammable and liquid or gas) as a
>fuel.  You won't need a throttle plate, so there won't be any pumping
>losses.
>
>The trick is to make this "hot injecter" (I would line it with ceramic on
>the inside) and put it into the sparkplug hole.  To start with, you could
>use the regular distributer to control the timing.  Once you get it
>running farily well, try varying the timing to see what you get.
>
>Ray Drouillard