Re: Did a compression test on my Elite...help
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:37 am
Greetings:
I agree with The Bear on the importance of Dynamic compression. Current Hi-Po SuperSports streetbikes feature "Compression Ratios" approaching a Diesel-like 14:1, but that doesn't factor in the substantial valve overlap that drops the actual cylinder pressures back down to Pump-Gas-Sustainable levels. At very high RPM, the 4-strokes use the same pressure-wave supercharging effects from their airboxes and exhausts as 2-strokes (scroll to the bottom of the page...) do with the expansion chambers. At that very high (over 13,000) RPM, those static compression numbers actually occur. How they make it happen without detonation and top-end destruction is the slowly-advancing Black Art of Internal Combustion Engineering. Kawasaki's upcoming 2011 ZX 1000 boasts a Specific Output of well over 200HP/liter.
No supercharger, just decades of careful attention to the impossibly fast combustion chamber events.
One thing we Amateur 'Smoker Fans don't seem to address as seriously as the Expansion Chamber wave is the importance of the pressure waves from the Intake side. Late racing Factory 2-Strokes all used them - no Pod filters on the track. An airbox carefully volume- and shape-matched to the cylinder has the potential to do from the incoming side what a well-tuned pipe does from the output side. I'm still wating on my BGM Pro airbox from Der Faderland - evidently back-ordered and on a slow boat from China - to experiment with this issue.
I agree with The Bear on the importance of Dynamic compression. Current Hi-Po SuperSports streetbikes feature "Compression Ratios" approaching a Diesel-like 14:1, but that doesn't factor in the substantial valve overlap that drops the actual cylinder pressures back down to Pump-Gas-Sustainable levels. At very high RPM, the 4-strokes use the same pressure-wave supercharging effects from their airboxes and exhausts as 2-strokes (scroll to the bottom of the page...) do with the expansion chambers. At that very high (over 13,000) RPM, those static compression numbers actually occur. How they make it happen without detonation and top-end destruction is the slowly-advancing Black Art of Internal Combustion Engineering. Kawasaki's upcoming 2011 ZX 1000 boasts a Specific Output of well over 200HP/liter.
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One thing we Amateur 'Smoker Fans don't seem to address as seriously as the Expansion Chamber wave is the importance of the pressure waves from the Intake side. Late racing Factory 2-Strokes all used them - no Pod filters on the track. An airbox carefully volume- and shape-matched to the cylinder has the potential to do from the incoming side what a well-tuned pipe does from the output side. I'm still wating on my BGM Pro airbox from Der Faderland - evidently back-ordered and on a slow boat from China - to experiment with this issue.