[SEL] OT PA trip & fuel costs

[Richard Fink Sr]

Bill don't know anything about the Jeep diesel but did read an 
article that MOPAR was going to drop it. Could not meet emission requirements.
But they can build 100,000 cars that most likely pollute more.GO Figure
R Fink


At 01:35 PM 6/6/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>Note on gas engines, they have INCREASED compression ratios and are using
>fast burn chambers.
>Remember the compression ratios of the 60's and early 70's were in the
>10:1 and 9:1 range, then dropped to 8:1 in the green decades - they are
>back up.
>Wonder why??
>Fast burn, high compression, more effecient, less ping the faster you burn
>it, racers know more compression means more power and more effeciency.
>
>So what's the difference between our 90 year old H n M engines and the
>newer engines that lock out certain valves when the power isn't needed?
>GM stated it was "new technology" when they started using it. Tell that to
>the folks at Hercules or Waterloo, etc. - s'pose they are rolling in their
>graves? (about 500 rpm when needed, I guess)
>
>Yeah, like Ford has just introduced an amazing new type of vehicle, the
>cross-over utility vehicle! Gee, what was my 1980 EAGLE???
>And it got in the 20's for economy and was FULL TIME 4 wheel drive.
>
>I hear the diesel used in the Jeep Liberty is pretty decent - that what do
>they call it, rail system, whatever...
>
>Bill
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