Smokey’s new hot vapourizing engine creates heat in Detroit (1983)

Post by schiffern » Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 5:43 AM UTC

JohnBooty wrote: post #3

This is all very fascinating, but also very over my head! I found a post detailing some reasons why this technology never made it to production; apparently such an engine is always running rather close to its limits and could more or less self destruct if there was a small problem with air/fuel ratio and timing. https://www.yellowbullet.com/threads/smokey-yunicks-hot-vapo...

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Post by dredmorbius » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 9:26 AM UTC

qbrass wrote: post #8

pengaru wrote: post #2

In my gearhead days I had a dead-tree copy of Yunick's Power Secrets, and read about his adiabatic modified car engine. My understanding at the time was that the main barrier to market was emissions related. Oxides of nitrogen in particular were far too high from the high temperatures. If you look at an emissions test summary NOx is one of the few things they actually measure. > NOx gases are usually produced from th…

NOx can be reduced using non-electronic equipment. Well, you could do it in 1983, anyway.