Wow, all sorts of various people up here trying to be helpful... THANKS for the gracious offers folks, but for the time being, I have found a solution!I was able to find some additional web storage space on another e-mail account and so I put the file up there. Feel free to download it directly. Before you click to it, be forewarned that it is a 20MB PDF file. IE: You might want to save this link directly to your hard drive rather than re-loading it every time you need to look at it! OK, the link is:http://home.comcast.net/~jakeru/15dsae.pdfEnjoy!
Wholy moly!! Author of the paper is "P. Hofbauer and K. Sator, Volkswagenwerk AG"! He must have been a walking diesel encyclopedia of knowledge.
I'm still slowly reading my way through the paper, but am already struck by a few passages.Here are a couple...The compression ratios which permit attaining optimum fuel consumption in small swirl-chamber engines range between 16 and 18.What do you think about that? Other texts on diesels I have remark that fuel efficiency goes up in NA diesels until the CR is about 26:1, when increasing mechanical stresses overcome further gains. I have to wonder about the effect of turbcharging.
and...The 1.5l 50 BHP Diesel and the 1.6l 110 BHP spark ignition engine use the same internal engine components (crankshaft, pistons, conrods and bearings).So why does it say that diesels are "necessarily" more expensive than their gassers?