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wrote:
Awhile back, I asked if anyone knew about techniques to temporarily
increase the power of a diesel similar to using nitrous oxide in a gas
engine. Today I got a JC Whitney catalogue and in it was a kit for
doing just that. I guess you would have improved power until the
nitrous ran out or till your engine overheated.
I wonder if you could adapt it for a small sailboat diesel.

There are all sorts of tricks you can do to get more power out of a
diesel engine. One of the simplest is just changing the injectors to a
larger orfice. Under lower throttle, it won't run much different but
more power will be available for full throttle, and that sounds like
what you want.

Now, i wonder if you could have a duel fuel/duel ignition system where
it ran on gasoline for acceleration and on diesel for constant speed.

Don't do it.

Steve