I'm by no stretch of the imagination, am expert. But, I'd imagine that you might run into trouble as the alcohol brings the cetane value down, effecting combustion.
Can sombody offer some feedback on this? Maybe (I hope) it's not a serious concern. MikeR --- "Thompson, Mark L. (PNB R&D)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > I was looking at the feasibility of adding a hybrid > Ethanol injection > system to > An old Diesel VW rabbit. > > Does anyone know how much Ethanol added to an > unmodified Diesel engine > and run properly ? > > I was considering a CSI injection system into the > manifold just before > the intake valves. > These are readily available at the auto Wreakers and > easily > controllable. > I can lower the compression ratio a bit if it would > allow higher > Ethanol/Diesel ratios but run on pure Diesel. > > The thought was to have the engine run on Diesel at > start and idle then > increase the > Ethanol/Diesel mixture when the RPMs and power is > high. > > Thanks > M > > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
