Let me add a few notes to this.
The Cat turboelectric compound is using the electric motor to spin the turbo up quickly to avoid turbo lag or provide more combustion air for better transient power or less smoke. They explicitly point out this only works for about 8 sec. or so. They get a bit...
I've been lurking to see expert answers to this.
The situation here is that you need two flowmeters to get reasonable results. One goes in the fuel line, and I'd recommend putting it between the filter/separator and the injection pump so that anything that might clog it up or corrode it gets...
Graviman, I would like to agree with you, BUT:
If I understand this correctly, the engine allows the elimination of rod articulation (done with a skirt, or piston-rod guide in tall engines like some Cummins diesels, to keep the piston aligned with the bore, and two pressure-lubricated...
Remember that many of the 'sugar-in-the-gas' stories are very old. That makes me tend to favor the 'caramelization hypothesis' -- since engine stickiness and not just a transient 'potato-in-the-exhaust' stoppage is supposed to result.
Sugar is a carbohydrate -- containing carbon, oxygen, and...
