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Re: More Methanol Mysteries

To: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com, dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: More Methanol Mysteries
From: Dick Jurkowski <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 10:53:27 -0800 (PST)
Nuther question:  If methanol likes 14:1 and 15:1
kind of CR, and I put it in a gas motor that is,
say 10:1, isn't that like taking a gas motor on
gas and cutting compression ratio down to 7:1?  I
mean, isn't that existing 10:1 way too low for
Methanol?

--- ARDUNDOUG@aol.com wrote:
> Group,
>     For IR (Hilborn-type) injectors there are
> some pretty standard 
> starting-points regards nozzle size, bypass jet
> size, injector pump size, 
> etc. when starting to use methanol. The folks
> at Laguna Lean-out (aka 
> Hilborn) near Laguna Beach, CA can give you a
> good idea of the starting 
> point. 
>     Eventually you will establish your own
> base-line and interpolate from 
> there to correct for the addition of nitro,
> different altitudes, temps, 
> humidity, etc. 
>                                            
> Ardun Doug King
> 


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