Maximum advance

Bruce nacelp at bright.net
Fri Jul 13 02:43:03 GMT 2001


Probably a waste of BW, but, chamber polishing / smoothing is a well kept
secret.
Bruce


> BUT--heat transfer to the piston crown and chamber walls, both convective
> and radiative, is, in fact, _quite_ significant, especially while near
TDC.
> I would hazard a guess that it can account for somewhere between 10 and
20%
> of the total heat input value of the fuel. Which is precisely why piston
> and chamber polishing and thermal barrier coatings make a significant
> difference in performance--both in terms of torque/power output and BSFC
> (fuel efficiency).
> Greg


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