Would my Alfa's V6 run on Jupiter?
Discussion
Zombie said:
Just a bit of fun, not a serious question!
Forget the car, imagine an NA engine on a stand...
I guess the simple answer is no, Jupiter is a gas giant and as such the engine would fall to the centre and be generally crushed by pressure and temperature.
But expanding upon the premise, if Jupiter had a solid surface, it still wouldn't run unless you changed the fuel system to inject oxygen rather than fuel.
Moving on to a hypothetical planet. One that has a surface and atmosphere the same as earth but everything else being the same as jupiter it still wouldn't start due to the extreme cold.
Changing Hypo Planet's temp to the same as earths, it still wouldn't run would it? Give jupiter has 2.4 x the gravity of earth, atmospheric pressure would make a mess of it pretty quickly... It would be like strapping a hoofing great turbo or 2 to it.
And then there would be issues with the oil system, the weight of the reciprocating parts etc... (or is this where mass comes into play?)
Why else wouldn't it work or break?
Have you been drinking methane? Sorry, meths? Not sure why you chose Jupiter rather than a solid body such as Mars or Earth.Forget the car, imagine an NA engine on a stand...
I guess the simple answer is no, Jupiter is a gas giant and as such the engine would fall to the centre and be generally crushed by pressure and temperature.
But expanding upon the premise, if Jupiter had a solid surface, it still wouldn't run unless you changed the fuel system to inject oxygen rather than fuel.
Moving on to a hypothetical planet. One that has a surface and atmosphere the same as earth but everything else being the same as jupiter it still wouldn't start due to the extreme cold.
Changing Hypo Planet's temp to the same as earths, it still wouldn't run would it? Give jupiter has 2.4 x the gravity of earth, atmospheric pressure would make a mess of it pretty quickly... It would be like strapping a hoofing great turbo or 2 to it.
And then there would be issues with the oil system, the weight of the reciprocating parts etc... (or is this where mass comes into play?)
Why else wouldn't it work or break?
Taking Earth as an example, can Alfa engines work on earth? The easy answer is yes, but with lots of caveats.
Earth scientists have shown,over many years that an alfa engine to run reliably on Earth needs not a V6, nor even a V4 but the most simplistic V1 engine. As developed by the Germans in the early 1940's.
Gandahar said:
Zombie said:
Just a bit of fun, not a serious question!
Forget the car, imagine an NA engine on a stand...
I guess the simple answer is no, Jupiter is a gas giant and as such the engine would fall to the centre and be generally crushed by pressure and temperature.
But expanding upon the premise, if Jupiter had a solid surface, it still wouldn't run unless you changed the fuel system to inject oxygen rather than fuel.
Moving on to a hypothetical planet. One that has a surface and atmosphere the same as earth but everything else being the same as jupiter it still wouldn't start due to the extreme cold.
Changing Hypo Planet's temp to the same as earths, it still wouldn't run would it? Give jupiter has 2.4 x the gravity of earth, atmospheric pressure would make a mess of it pretty quickly... It would be like strapping a hoofing great turbo or 2 to it.
And then there would be issues with the oil system, the weight of the reciprocating parts etc... (or is this where mass comes into play?)
Why else wouldn't it work or break?
Have you been drinking methane? Sorry, meths? Not sure why you chose Jupiter rather than a solid body such as Mars or Earth.Forget the car, imagine an NA engine on a stand...
I guess the simple answer is no, Jupiter is a gas giant and as such the engine would fall to the centre and be generally crushed by pressure and temperature.
But expanding upon the premise, if Jupiter had a solid surface, it still wouldn't run unless you changed the fuel system to inject oxygen rather than fuel.
Moving on to a hypothetical planet. One that has a surface and atmosphere the same as earth but everything else being the same as jupiter it still wouldn't start due to the extreme cold.
Changing Hypo Planet's temp to the same as earths, it still wouldn't run would it? Give jupiter has 2.4 x the gravity of earth, atmospheric pressure would make a mess of it pretty quickly... It would be like strapping a hoofing great turbo or 2 to it.
And then there would be issues with the oil system, the weight of the reciprocating parts etc... (or is this where mass comes into play?)
Why else wouldn't it work or break?
Taking Earth as an example, can Alfa engines work on earth? The easy answer is yes, but with lots of caveats.
Earth scientists have shown,over many years that an alfa engine to run reliably on Earth needs not a V6, nor even a V4 but the most simplistic V1 engine. As developed by the Germans in the early 1940's.
Gandahar said:
Have you been drinking methane? Sorry, meths? Not sure why you chose Jupiter rather than a solid body such as Mars or Earth.
Taking Earth as an example, can Alfa engines work on earth? The easy answer is yes, but with lots of caveats.
Earth scientists have shown,over many years that an alfa engine to run reliably on Earth needs not a V6, nor even a V4 but the most simplistic V1 engine. As developed by the Germans in the early 1940's.
As I said, it wasn't a serious question and it related more to the operation of an NA ICE under extreme gravity.Taking Earth as an example, can Alfa engines work on earth? The easy answer is yes, but with lots of caveats.
Earth scientists have shown,over many years that an alfa engine to run reliably on Earth needs not a V6, nor even a V4 but the most simplistic V1 engine. As developed by the Germans in the early 1940's.
Halmyre said:
Gandahar said:
Zombie said:
Just a bit of fun, not a serious question!
Forget the car, imagine an NA engine on a stand...
I guess the simple answer is no, Jupiter is a gas giant and as such the engine would fall to the centre and be generally crushed by pressure and temperature.
But expanding upon the premise, if Jupiter had a solid surface, it still wouldn't run unless you changed the fuel system to inject oxygen rather than fuel.
Moving on to a hypothetical planet. One that has a surface and atmosphere the same as earth but everything else being the same as jupiter it still wouldn't start due to the extreme cold.
Changing Hypo Planet's temp to the same as earths, it still wouldn't run would it? Give jupiter has 2.4 x the gravity of earth, atmospheric pressure would make a mess of it pretty quickly... It would be like strapping a hoofing great turbo or 2 to it.
And then there would be issues with the oil system, the weight of the reciprocating parts etc... (or is this where mass comes into play?)
Why else wouldn't it work or break?
Have you been drinking methane? Sorry, meths? Not sure why you chose Jupiter rather than a solid body such as Mars or Earth.Forget the car, imagine an NA engine on a stand...
I guess the simple answer is no, Jupiter is a gas giant and as such the engine would fall to the centre and be generally crushed by pressure and temperature.
But expanding upon the premise, if Jupiter had a solid surface, it still wouldn't run unless you changed the fuel system to inject oxygen rather than fuel.
Moving on to a hypothetical planet. One that has a surface and atmosphere the same as earth but everything else being the same as jupiter it still wouldn't start due to the extreme cold.
Changing Hypo Planet's temp to the same as earths, it still wouldn't run would it? Give jupiter has 2.4 x the gravity of earth, atmospheric pressure would make a mess of it pretty quickly... It would be like strapping a hoofing great turbo or 2 to it.
And then there would be issues with the oil system, the weight of the reciprocating parts etc... (or is this where mass comes into play?)
Why else wouldn't it work or break?
Taking Earth as an example, can Alfa engines work on earth? The easy answer is yes, but with lots of caveats.
Earth scientists have shown,over many years that an alfa engine to run reliably on Earth needs not a V6, nor even a V4 but the most simplistic V1 engine. As developed by the Germans in the early 1940's.
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