Everything is in the title. It seem that in almost all diesel engine, the EGR valve is clogging the intake until there's so much restriction that the engine begin to smoke a lot, starving for air. Next thing you learn, your engine is creating even more pollution than it would've create without...
Did anyone ever though of an electrically powered camshaft? It would remove the need for a timing belt/chain and it would then be a lot easier to have infinite variable valve timing. The only possible problem is the size of the electric motor we would need. I know it take around 20% of the...
Anyone know if we can achieve better fuel economy by adding acetone to the fuel in a diesel engine? I heard about it on a Volkswagen TDI forum and I'm curious.
