Posted by mkirsch on December 08, 2008 at 10:04:49 from (64.80.108.55):
In Reply to: Tractor pullers posted by spiffy1 on December 08, 2008 at 07:12:25:
teddy52food said: (quoted from post at 08:12:25 12/08/08) When you turn up the fuel on a diesel ,you get more power but also more smoke. Has anyone added an oxygen bottle with a regulator and valve to the air stream to burn the fuel better instead of making all that smoke?
That's why they put turbochargers on diesel engines. Rather than deal with cumbersome expensive oxygen bottles that need to be changed and refilled, a turbo gives a continuous supply of "free" air to the engine.
If you're smoking, you need more "boost" from the turbo. Most older tractor turbos don't have wastegates or variable vanes that I'm aware of; what you get is what you get. The only way to get more boost is to put on a bigger turbocharger.
I'm sure this has been done, probably in labs and maybe on the pulling track. The vast quantities of bottled oxygen required for field work would make it prohibitively expensive and impractical.
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