A combustion engine produces electricity in the cylinder by compressing fuel and air, then provokes it. The harder you compress the mixture, the more strength you make. In short, this is compression ratio. In most engines, the compression ratio is less than 10: 1.
This Loda has a 22: 1 compression ratio. The crazy staff belonging to Garga 54 wanted “free horsepower” so they torn the Loda Four cylinder engine and increased the compression ratio.
The collision of compression is actually quite common in the later world, but it is usually done by changing the heads and installing a strong piston. In addition, re -forming the heads can also increase the compression ratio slightly, just because the surgery head is always a little tight, thus shrinking the combustion chamber. These changes usually require strong parts, such as bars, bearings and so on.
The garage 54 only decorated the head and weld a group of aluminum on the peaks of the pistons. Looks like legitimate.
They measured the volume of the cylinders at least and made a mold of the combustion chamber. This allowed the team to do some rough calculations on the compression ratio, which reached about 222: 1. Using the mold as a guide, he welcomed the aluminum on the peaks of pistons, leaving very little capacity for combustion. And in the amazing turning point of events, they were cautiously mistaken and added another head gasket, which effectively dropped the proportion in 16: 1. A compression check on cylinders confirmed that there was really pressure Method Up
Surprisingly, the engine starts, and with high octane fuel in a particular tank, it also runs very well. In fact, the little Loda rotates his tires on the entire throttle test run, but this happens when things like engine balance, personalization, and explosion work. There may be a “free horsepower” for a few seconds, but the resulting massacre after leaving the second is not far from the tears of the I do CARS engine.
Will the team try again for ultra -high compression lida? Based on what we have seen from the garage 54 in the past several years, this is not the question, but when.
