Howdy,
This is partly a test to post to the new address, but mainly to ask a question:
Yesterday I went to look at an anvil and ended up as a spectator to a conversation about engines. I vaguely understand about "porting" and the reasons for putting in shorter connecting rods, but in doing so, the air/fuel mix above the piston doesn't get compressed as much. I thought the ideal was to get the most volume squeezed into the smallest space before igniting it? Or am I confusing myself with some basic jet engine theory from way back? Is the point of increasing the volume of air/fuel mixture the whole point, period (not the squeezing)? Did I just answer my own question(s)?
Straighten me out on this, please.
PS. When I asked the guys in yesterday's conversation the question about the compression, they got a glazed distant look about them. Makes me think they don't quite understand everything they know about this stuff, either.
JL
