[Vwdiesel] Glow plug confusion --- ( Bentley is wrong say I )

[Roger Brown]

Harmon Seaver wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:00:40PM -0700, Nate Wall wrote:
> > <<<Afterglow it is called , was used to reduce white
> > fog from cold turbo Engines. But it works for ALL
> > diesels.?      More on this some other time. >>>
> >
> > Why would a TD smoke more on start-up than a NA diesel
> > VW engine? No boost at start-up. The ONLY thing I
> > could equate it to is the higher injection pressure
> > the nozzles are set at, or the more advanmced timing,
> > but advancing the timing REDUCES white smoking. Higher
> > injection pressure would tend to REDUCE smoking I
> > think too. I do believe the prechambers are nearly
> > identical. Hmmmmm.....This has never been explained, I
> > believe.
> >
>     I thought the TD was lower compression than the NA? At least that's the way
> it is with most engines, not sure about VW's.

Same as far as I can tell:
	http://4crawler.cruiserpages.com/Diesel/index.shtml#EngineSpecs

Moving down a bit from the 1.5->1.6->1.9 engines, the TDI is lower than the IDI engines, though.

--
    Roger