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Re: Compression results question




>     Whoops, just answered my own question. As I sat at the keyboard
> pondering it (after hitting "send", of course), I was struck by a terrible
> thought - no, surely it couldn't be the Bentley's infallible Imperial/Metric
> conversion. A quick trip to the basement, a few keystrokes on a calculator,
> and voila - the upper "new" compression limit on the MC engine is 12 bar or
> 176 psig, not 12 bar or 144 psig as reported in Bentley.

Yes, those psi figures are all screwy.  Use the figures given in bar
instead.

Orin.