Rob,
Have you seen one of the intercoolers for the SMA diesel ?
Would you care to hazard a guess as to about what size the intercooler
is for that diesel engine ?
Regards, George
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Subject: [LML] Re: Thielert Diesel
Centurion 4.0
In a message dated 3/29/2007 3:52:36 PM Eastern Standard
Time, cberland@systems3.net writes:
My point......there is only one way to shut down a
diesel. Turn the fuel off. Well I guess if you had a sleeping bag
laying around you could stuff it into the intake. Doing so in flight
might be a little tricky. <grin>
Typically, a diesel engine is equipped with an emergency
shut down that closes a butterfly valve in the intake and is quite effective at
shutting the engine down. This is an important feature as any source of oil
like fuel introduced into the cylinder can result in a runaway condition.
As for oil life, most of the cars sold in Briton today use
diesel engines and they seem to live quite well with similar oil change
intervals as used on spark engines in the US. Oh and by the way George, the
radiators on those cars aren't noticeably larger than comparable cars in the US.