<VV> Say what ?

[mhicks130 at cox.net]

I don't know about that, are you raising the floor or the ceiling?  If you had a ceramic engine, no heat would go into the engine parts so all the heat would be used for the expansion/piston moving.  Then all the heat would go out  of the engine with the exhaust stroke, theoretically lowering the floor to ambient temperature.  You'd raise the ceiling and lower the floor.  Theoretically.  I don't think I'd want to have a ceramic engine though, not with my luck with dishplates!

mike

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>remember that the higher the engine temp. the better  the gas mileage since 
>less heat is "thrown away" (discarded) into the 
>cooling  airstream.  Anybody for 
>ceramic Corvair engines??? 
 
Huh ? Output (work) is the area in the middle of the PV curve. Raise the 
floor and you get less, not more. Might get less drag since the oil is 
thinner but that is not necessarily desirable. 
See http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/otto.html 
 
Padgett 
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