When I worked for the Government I was involved in a project to convert the P-250 portable fire pump from gasoline to Jet A fuel. There may have been some carb changes, but the main thing was a butane bottle that was used to fill a try below the intake manifold. The tray was filled, and ignited. once the fuel was used up the engine started and ran fine on jet A.
Lynn E. Hanover
In a message dated 5/4/2008 8:49:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time, res12@fairpoint.net writes:
Ed,
What you described is exactly why it is so hard to come up with a good working, spark ignition, heavy fuel (Diesel/JP) engine. It seems that in order to solving this problem one would have to beat basic physics.
The real diesel only works because most of the fuel droplets combust at the same time, eliminating the influence of flame propagation velocity.
FW
Richard Sohn
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