Date:         Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:36:05 -0700
Reply-To:     Sudhir Desai <desa4622@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Sudhir Desai <desa4622@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Platinum Vapour Injection for fuel savings etc.?
Comments: To: Wolfgang Carolsfeld <wolfgang@ISLAND.NET>
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i dunno about how well it works, according to these
people,
"Excess air may be added to the combustion chamber to
get more radical oxygen, O= to oxidize the CO to CO2.
This can reduce the CO to 1% or less. However, this
excess air does NOT reduce total unburned fuel
(pollution), because the extra air inside the
combustion chamber is parasitic and cools the flame.
As the temperature of the flame drops, fewer
hydrocarbons (HC) crack, raising the amount of
unburned HC in the exhaust gases and obviously not
helping to increase miles per gallon. Extra air slows
down the burning process so some of the fuel is
burning to late in the stroke to be beneficial. "

why are there superchargers and turbochargers that
"excess air" to the combustion chamber and produce
prodigous amounts of power?

oh well... my $.02 worth

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Sudhir Desai
desa4622@kettering.edu   desa4622@yahoo.com
1984 Vanagon Z34 & 1996 Jetta Trek
icq# 17014903     AOL & yahoopager: rawsuds

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