- Wed Aug 09, 2017 4:59 am
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Oldsmobile Designed a 12-1 compression engine before the last war, known as a Kettering engine. It would have been more powerful than current V8's which were typically 7 to1, in fact a V6 would have been more powerful and lasted longer than many V8's built at that time.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YyQ ... e&q&f=true Now as the war happened so I can't say for definite whether it was stopped by the car builders, the oil industry or the war. At time just after the depression a car that did 25 more miles in city traffic out if the same tank of fuel would have been quite a selling point. For the gasoline to be that high octane it would have needed a lot more lead though.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YyQ ... e&q&f=true Now as the war happened so I can't say for definite whether it was stopped by the car builders, the oil industry or the war. At time just after the depression a car that did 25 more miles in city traffic out if the same tank of fuel would have been quite a selling point. For the gasoline to be that high octane it would have needed a lot more lead though.
Last edited by Yachtsman on Wed Aug 09, 2017 8:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.
To get the best energy out of an engine it should be as high compression as the fuel can sustain. I have thought for years it might be an idea to run pure ethanol at a high compression as it can sustain