interesting theory except for one little problem....does he have a 2
stroke or does he somehow have a 4 stroke with no exhaust stoke??? 50%
of all the cycle have no significant amount of pressure above the piston
... to even further complicate this theory peak pressure is 17 or so
degrees after tdc....so the loads then are pushing down no keeping the
piston from going up.. There are lots of reasons for engines to explode
this is not really one of them.. Cars run the 24 hrs of daytona and
this is not really an issue as they are on and off the throttle
endlessly. I am sure i have seen many more engines fail mid run than
during shutdown. I am also not real sure i would want to remove all G
loading on a car at speed seems mighty shaky to me......both the theory
and the practice..if the engine blows up at the end of a run i might
rather suspect the car had a 4 mile oiling system and attempted a 5 mile
pass and the owner was rewarded the inevitable blown up engine...
Dahlgren
ardunbill@webtv.net wrote:
>
> Keith, a veteran speed trials man just pointed out to me that the time
> when you snap the throttle shut at high revs and high speed, and the
> engine drags the car down, is the time when the small ends are most
> likely to part from the conrods, since there is then no gas pressure
> overhead to balance the forces. He likes to stick it into neutral and
> coast down at Bonneville, to avoid the above inconvenience. But at
> Maxton, especially with the FAST equipment, you want maximum braking by
> every available means. Bill
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