In a message dated 12/20/2007 10:24:08 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,=20 Lehanover writes:

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I got all that except for the intake air being heated by the=20 headers. Might be great for efficiency but wouldn't the resulting=20= drop=20 in density reduce maximum power? I do remember Smoky Ys' engine bu= t I=20 never got an answer to the obvious question. If it's so great, why= =20 doesn't everybody do that? It would be so easy and cheap to do.

Tracy

Sorry, I went off on a rant and didn't answer your question. The answer= is=20 detonation. An auto ignition of the fuel air mixture remote from the spark=20 plug(s) and after the planned ignition event. All you need to produce=20 detonation, is too high a mixture temperature. So nobody could do it with a=20 carb, because if there is fuel in the air it will light and ruin the engine.= So=20 Smokey's engine had a carb sitting up on top. But his engine was using=20 superheated intake air, so, it had to be injected, and the carb was just a=20 throttle body with no fuel going through it at all. Knowing his skills, he m= ay=20 have invented his own electronic high pressure injection.

To complete the illusion he only needed to hide the injectors from the=20 young engineers sent to unravel the mystery. Keep in mind this man had cams=20 ground for Hudson Hornet 6 cylinder inline engines so he could run the engin= e=20 backwards. .Anti clockwise looking from the front. He ported manifolds by=20 pumping abrasives through them. He pumped coolant into the heads and out the= =20 block sides. (Adopted by Cosworth) He could have fed the carb fuel for the=20 accelerator pump and idle circuits but not the boosters. So if anyone checke= d=20 the carb would look completely Kosher.

For the engine to pull from a stop at low RPM, he must have been inject= ing=20 and ignition timing right at TDC. The radiator in that car was the= =20 heater core. So, the answer is that it requires medium to high pressure dire= ct=20 (into the combustion chamber) injection. He could have used steel or cast ir= on=20 pistons to keep the noise down and reduce size changes from heat. The=20 injectors could have been concealed inside the valve covers.

But it had to be injected if it was running on regular car gas. If the=20= fuel=20 can be kept in the form of a gas right up until ignition, there is a chance=20= for=20 every fuel molecule to attach to an oxygen molecule. As an atomized liquid,=20= it=20 will never burn completely. True the heated air would be less dense and= so=20 have fewer oxygen molecules, but a turbo addition could force feed nearly an= y=20 amount of air and oxygen.

Lynn E. Hanover

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