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Forum: Car Nitro & Gas Engines

09-30-2007, 11:43 PM

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Induction Timing

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Posted By SAVAGEJIM

RE: Induction Timing

None the less, I really want to hear his feedback, so I therefore look forward to his post. I really want to hear his criticism since I am constantly learning. And I find it an absolute blessing from...

Forum: Car Nitro & Gas Engines

09-29-2007, 12:40 AM

Replies: 73

Induction Timing

Views: 21,668

Posted By SAVAGEJIM

RE: Induction Timing

If you are referring to MXWrench (Brian Kinney), I too am wondering why he has not posted vey much at all. I have asked him to post calculations and other engineeing concepts on another site, but he...

Forum: Car Nitro & Gas Engines

09-19-2007, 08:25 PM

Replies: 73

Induction Timing

Views: 21,668

Posted By SAVAGEJIM

RE: Induction Timing

Thanks, I hope he can find this useful when shooting for an induction timing that he knows would be more powerful.

Supertib is right: altering the timing profile to advance them is difficult. I...

Forum: Car Nitro & Gas Engines

07-01-2007, 05:52 PM

Replies: 73

Induction Timing

Views: 21,668

Posted By SAVAGEJIM

RE: Induction Timing

I've added more to the origineal post, I now explain what to calculate and measure for to increase the induction duration. Upon proofreading it once I added it, I realized I forgot to even mention...

Forum: Car Nitro & Gas Engines

06-30-2007, 11:31 AM

Replies: 73

Induction Timing

Views: 21,668

Posted By SAVAGEJIM

RE: Induction Timing

Not a bad idea at all. MS Excel, for example is a great spread sheed and even includes scientific functions (trig, logrithims, and stats functions). Programming it to do these calculations make the...

Forum: Car Nitro & Gas Engines

06-29-2007, 10:02 PM

Replies: 73

Induction Timing

Views: 21,668

Posted By SAVAGEJIM

RE: Induction Timing

For those of you who are a little more algebra and trig savvy, here is the formula to determin the height of the piston within its stroke when you know a given crank angle:

S=stroke
L=conrod...

Forum: Car Nitro & Gas Engines

06-28-2007, 07:13 PM

Replies: 73

Induction Timing

Views: 21,668

Posted By SAVAGEJIM

RE: Induction Timing

Yeah, unfortunately, no one even really wants to talk about any sort of math. Getting formulae out of people or to get them to even try to express thier explanations in physics and mathematical...

Forum: Car Nitro & Gas Engines

06-28-2007, 12:14 AM

Replies: 73

Induction Timing

Views: 21,668

Posted By SAVAGEJIM

RE: Induction Timing

Yeah, thanks for showing interest, I thought for a while that interest was not there since this thread sort of fell by the wayside. I have the modification portion written and the diagrams drawn; I...

Forum: Car Nitro & Gas Engines

06-19-2007, 07:58 AM

Replies: 73

Induction Timing

Views: 21,668

Posted By SAVAGEJIM

RE: Induction Timing

The flat spots you are talking about on your TRX engine is the focus on the rest of my essay. Grinding down these flat spots to open the induction port more for the purpose of increasing induction...

Forum: Car Nitro & Gas Engines

06-17-2007, 04:44 PM

Replies: 73

Induction Timing

Views: 21,668

Posted By SAVAGEJIM

RE: Induction Timing

Yes, that is true. I just gave instructions to calculate the induction timing, not its reference to when it opens and closes relative to the piston position. For the oment, the only way I can think...

Forum: Car Nitro & Gas Engines

06-17-2007, 09:50 AM

Replies: 73

Induction Timing

Views: 21,668

Posted By SAVAGEJIM

RE: Induction Timing

This is meant to work on the induction timing only. The above method I described tells how to calculate only the induction timing, not the sleeve (lateral intakes, boost, or exhaust) port timings. I...

Forum: Car Nitro & Gas Engines

06-16-2007, 01:01 PM

Replies: 73

Induction Timing

Views: 21,668

Posted By SAVAGEJIM

RE: Induction Timing

Im sorry for delaying this for so long, My intial post that I just put on today is only how to calculate the induction timing. I am at the moment writing the modification portion as I post this; but...

Forum: Car Nitro & Gas Engines

06-16-2007, 12:39 PM

Replies: 73

Induction Timing

Views: 21,668

Posted By SAVAGEJIM

Induction Timing

INDUCTION TIMING MODIFICATION

I am writing this as an instructional post on how to determine what the crankshaft induction timing is and how to modify the crankshaft to increase this timing. The...

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