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- Subject: Soviet Air-cooled diesel engines
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- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 6 Jan 93 13:55:00 GMT
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- -> They produce air-cooled diesel engines that are claimed
- -> to out perform the liquid cooled variety and can operate
- -> at extremely high and low temperatures. Also, they are
- -> supposed to be cheaper.
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- That's nothing unusual. The US Army Tank Command has done a wad of
- research on what they call an "adiabatic" (I know it's not the correct
- word, but it's what THEY call it) Diesel that runs without any external
- cooling at all. TACOM used to publish papers about it with the SAE.
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- That stuff is all directly applicable to air cooled Diesels, which are
- nothing unusual either. Royal Enfield (India) has been selling Diesel
- motorcycles for a long time. Kick start, too.
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