Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:15:58 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Cleaning up your Vanagon
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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David Beierl wrote:
> At 07:49 PM 9/29/2009, John Rodgers wrote:
>> but water in the form of steam and what ever nitrogen that came into the
>> engine on the intake stroke - which ain't much.
>
> Hi John -- you're calling 80% of the intake air "not much?"  At 3000
> rpm the total throughput of a 2-liter engine is somewhere around 400
> cubic feet per minute.  And it all passes through the fire, so there
> will be some oxidation of the nitrogen, just as there is now.
>
> Yours,
> David
>
>
What goes in is what comes out. Might be in combinant form coming out
though - but the total weight of nitrogen is still there. It would be
interesting to know what actual weight of free nitrogen and combined
nitrogen actually comes out.

Regards,

John