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Also, anyone have a lowboy? Be easier to haul it over and not worry about it. Granted, fuel would cost a bit, but it would allow for a safer time frame of fixing things.

remember, if you have a CDL driver with you, you only need the permit to drive.

I also have my CDL and current DOT med card. Not sure if I will be available those days, and if so, that is a LOT of extra driving considering how much driving I do on a normal basis....

Check this out! New technology turns petrol engines into low compression diesel! Different idea to get the same affect that we are after. Now, put that piston in a simple engine like the 6.2 and have fun!

Cut down on smoke and run smoother. Easy, swap on a newer turbo with a waste gate. Don't try and make a ton of boost, just make the boost come in a lot sooner, and let the wastegate bleed off the extra at the higher rpms. Or just turn down your fueling a little ;) As for 50/50, they can run...

You are right though, it would only take so much reworking on the existing engines to make them more 'tolerant' of other fuels.

Well, we happen to like to 'thin' our heavy oils with gas. So having the engine burn it as well is a safety issue as well as a multi fuel issue.

Figured you did, but wanted to make it clear for anyone who didn't. Actually, an engine has some other dynamics that can play into this even more. Like the 2nd upward travel of the piston. Leaving enough volume to compress will help soften the 'snap' that the rod/pin/piston sees. Granted, this...

To a point, remember, to ignite a lot of the fuels we would like to use, we will still need a fairly high static CR. It needs to be able to START easily, and then run at idle, where we are not generating boost levels. Unless you did like the detroits and run a turbo on top of the super charger.

Ah, that lies in how you can design the cam profile. Also, to a point, how close your tolerances have to be for a higher CR engine compared to the lower CR + boost. But, to a point, you are right. They are being built a lot stronger, and withstand a LOT of boost = cylinder pressure.

Yeah, but they did a lot of work to make the engine quiet(er). It just happened to be able to run on other fuels as well. Nice fringe benefit there if you ask me...

To a point, but you need the CR to be high to START the engine in the first place. I think a newer MF would definitely benefit from forced induction. But I think that it should be able to run without it.

There is more to it then that. I have been thinking a LOT about this exact topic for quite some time now. I figured two setups would be nice to have. I would like to base one off of the GM 6.2 setup (indirect injection diesels already have a high compression ratio, stupid easy setup, and already...

That sir, is called hitting the nail on the head.

I have had two of these short out like that in my 818. First one burnt so bad that the stud into the solenoid almost fell out by itself. It still ran, but was shorting out and causing all kinds of PITA symtoms. Second time the engine just shut off, then I smelled the smoke and heard the sizzle...

Do we want to have any demonstration type events this year? We had mentioned this last year, but the closest we came was swapping Josh's front tires. I have a rim/tire that needs the tube replaced. I can bring that for a quick run down on pulling a rim apart and swapping in a new tube. Other...

I would definitely run it! I have ran plenty of OLD gas, and even some REALLY OLD Race gas (and some of us people know that old race gas is NASTY). Exhaust smelled 'different' after running that stuff! Of course, I used all the old gas to dilute the used oils anyways, so it was a win/win...

I say with windows, but get some real military ones, like the 109 has, etc.

I have the one M105 trailer you can buy Josh. If you just want one to pull, I have a couple of those as well.....

Ideally, before AND after. Before the turbo really helps you keep from melting down the turbo. After the turbo is what you should be reading to make sure you are cooling the turbo down properly. And 1350 AFTER the turbo is WAY too hot!