Appropriate Diesel Tuning, all you have to to know to get improved energy and economy from your diesel.

Izvor: KiWi

Diesel tuning is more important than we think. Lets get down to the fundamentals.

Diesel is distilled crude oil (Distillate). Unlike what most Hollywood movies encourage of the diesel truck hitting a wall and bursting like a per your request small nuclear bomb, oil does not readily ignite, particularly a liquid form. If we atomise it though, it will burn easily. The rule relies on air being compressed to approx. 500PSI. This in turn heats the air, turning it into the igniter (diesels don't have igniters such as for instance spark plugs). Heard of a glow plug? Glow plug only glow on cold start-up to greatly help warm up the air in the combustion chamber. Somewhat like when you are moving up a push bicycle tyre, the pump gets hot.

Ok, so you are in possession of hot air and diesel is injected by you in through an atomising injector. When the diesel leaves the injector and enters the excessively hot air the combustion and diesel ignites begins. Put an undesirable atomising injector in the picture and you've another story. The fuel amount burns occasionally and slowly whilst the flame burns through the large droplets of oily fuel, because it isn't atomising the diesel enough. If you were to light up a drum of gas, you'd view a similar effect of slow burning and smoke. You can suppose by now the moment of the combustion process is also upset. Add lower injector force than normal, due to age, and you've the moment of the gas ignition level changing even more (injector beginning too soon). The injectors achieving this alone will make a diesel sluggish and smoky. On the cold day, the combustion is further retarded because of cold cylinders and cool combustion and you also get difficult starting.

That scenario changes completely with correctly create injectors. Remember the drum of gas? Well, if you can fill the drum with a vapour of oil and light it up, you would not just get a big beat but it'd be over within a display. A good injector sprays fuel out as the fuel and an air burns quickly and relatively clear while the drops are so small they burn with a puff! A properly set injector force also means the gas will be injected at the correct time.

Today, the injectors are perfect however the injection pump might be slightly out of tune. Time needs to be established. The vehicle can feel sluggish, if it is too early the vehicle can smoke and become quite diesel noisy and if it's too late. Imagine the spray of fuel being a fist going to strike the piston. If it's hit too far before top dead center it'd not merely harm your fist and the piston but it'd create a higher than normal beat while the two things hit head-on. Which means you would have too little If the piston choose to go past top dead centre and was hit, the pressure of the hit would be heading down with all the piston

Effect on it. Why timing is important for maximum reach result In order to see! Other items need to be tested like the gas volume delivered from the pump. Too much is power but with smoke, too small is low power with definitely NO smoke and perfectly is at the center of smoke and no smoke! There are several more technical controls on the pump that are checked and modified but these are the key ones.

Well, there are 6 injectors delivering energy to the motor (Imagining it being a cylinder diesel). Looks like it's no problems getting gas, but what about the essential part that people forgot about, AIR? Well...it needs to bring the air through a labyrinth. Filter, pipes, inlet manifold and a small inlet valve. This has to happen in a split-second and the piston heading down has to complete all the drawing. Thats the ruling part of a diesel machines performance. For more power is merely more smoking remember more energy! So we've to do some thing about the air to keep things clear. This is the place where a Turbo process makes its own with Diesel engines. Having a large amount of air now available because of the turbo offering air right for the inlet valve, the piston just needs to pull air from there. Lets perhaps not forget that 1 cylinder includes a suction stroke many times a second, therefore these myths of air having in to the motor and blowing heads off with a turbo are just that! Given that we've more air, the energy system might be setup according for more energy. [WARNING- This is where the entire situation will come adrift with overheating and so on. Things have to be put up with a professional and a that knows his JOB!]

One last note; the diesel system that's on all 4WD diesels was built to work on a fuel with certain burning traits. We do not seem to be getting gas in Australia meeting all these needs. We have new vehicles smoking that certainly aren't made to smoke when running on diesel. Then when establishing a injection system for tuning we've to get the burning characteristics of this poor diesel under consideration. Make an effort to get your energy from the reliable and 'known brand' storage and keep your statements. If you have problems, you then have just as much 'come-back' to the energy storage as you have with a faulty product from a store.

Safe 4WDriving,

The Diesel Professionals

The current diesel has come a long way from its beginnings!! Wellso we're all bring about believe!! Thats where everything stops. Actually about the only thing which could assess is reinventing the round wheel!! Thats right. Nothing has really changed. A diesel still requires fuel and air. Even though we will have modern things such as Electronics handling everything and Common-rail Questionable Injection, it is still the same old theory. The only important change is apparently the repair costs as usual. Most high tech injectors now cost over $2000 each and are throw away. Many Injector pumps are becoming dispose of at around $6500. Where does it end??