by Ferrous_Head » Wed Aug 07, 2019 12:28 am
KH ? ...... ????? WTF ?
Panic is correct.
Ratio's ? Theoretical is 14.7 to 1. But 13.5 works better in practice for our engines. (I'm a Sportster guy).
Panic is correct. If you introduce more oxygen the mixture will go lean all else being equal. That's presuming you had it correct in the first place.
Any particular fuel will have an optimum amount of oxygen required to combine with to make power. You can't just add more of one or the other to make more power.
You can use oxygenated fuels to make more power but you need to increase the jet sizes or it will run lean.
You can more of both with supercharging (turbocharging etc) or you can improve cylinder filling (better cams, port work etc) but the ratio will stay the same for pump gas. You really just can't get away from that.
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