Pre/post ignition

[Andrew W. Macfadyen]

The seminal work on this subject is  a book by "Sir Harry Ricardo"  "The
High Speeed Internal Combustion Engine" the first edition was written about
1926  it is Ricardo's company that designs  the variable compression test
engines used by oil companies and  the they have developed most of the
modern engine combustion laser photography tecniques. The book was still
being regularly updated well into the late 1970s  and may well have been
brought up to date since.
It is a god  read for anyone interested in combustion chamber design.

Bruce Plecan wrote:

> As I recall from a Texaco Research Film (?) from the early 70's,
> in a series of variable compression engines they were able to
> generate a pre-ignition event at 5-7d pre ignition.
>   If someone has something more current/up to date, I'd like to
> hear it, cause the neural net involved with this is an old set.....
>   Just to stir things up,  wouldn't the most viotile stuff react first,
> leaving little or nothing combustable, for a post event?.
>   Cheers
> Bruce