Mastermind
Work Saw Specialist
Does any of this really matter?
It does to me.......I wanna do the best job possible with the tools I have.
Does any of this really matter?
Oh yeah it does!! I'll only feed square hay bales they are better for your cows. Round hay sucks.Does any of this really matter?
Doesn't the flow of the charge that washes across the piston crown happen way before then? I need to do some more studying on squish velocity and it's travel.What I was driving at when I asked what happened near TDC with a popup is just this. We all agree that tightening the squish is a good thing......the more squish velocity we have, the less chance of detonation. Well the tight squish is doing what it is suppose to do.......then bam.......the popup closes off the path when it passes the squish band and protrudes into the chamber.
That's the reason you don't see any wash on top of the popup......
Actually torque means nothing. Torque x rpm matters - that is the definition of power.Torque is way more important than, "power."
Picture this in your mind......
Think about what happens to the air/fuel mixture as the piston closes the squish area, and that popup starts going up into the combustion chamber.....
If you picture a perfectly symmetrical combustion chamber and a flat top piston as the gas is squished out of the band - it is all converging into the center. All of the mass is heading toward the center with equal velocity at the edge where it emerges from the squish band. At that edge it will begin to diverge upward into the combustion chamber, as a higher pressure builds at the center of the piston where the flow converges. How do we know if the pop-up actually changes that? I suspect the flow will turn up to follow the contour of the combustion chamber anyway, and that as long as the pop-up edge is not too close to the squish band edge it won't matter - but that is just my guess.What I was driving at when I asked what happened near TDC with a popup is just this. We all agree that tightening the squish is a good thing......the more squish velocity we have, the less chance of detonation. Well the tight squish is doing what it is suppose to do.......then bam.......the popup closes off the path when it passes the squish band and protrudes into the chamber.
That's the reason you don't see any wash on top of the popup......
Not saying popups won't work......they will increase compression.
I'm not OK when people say that they are actually better though.
There are too many easy to see reasons why they are inferior to stand by saying nothing when someone says that they are a better way to build a performance engine.
I said I wouldn't say anything bad about you Brad......and I plan to keep my word, but I read where you wrote that popups were not as good as a cut squish band.......then where you said they were as good.......now this morning you are saying they are better.
What do you really think? I'm confused by what you've written.
Say what? I'm confused. I don't think it makes a hill of beans difference in the real world. The only times I see it as an advantage is when you need to lower the exhaust port, not common IMHO, or you need more compression than can be had with a popup, again not common IMHO.I get it now........after reading my post.......I see.
I'm the one being trolled here.
Forget it.
Popups Rule
Torque is way more important than, "power."
Flat top pop up debate . I said flat top no I said pop up no I said flat top
Then you're testing an entire build philosophy and not popups. You still haven't settled this argument. You're simply showed who can build a stronger saw.The proper way to test flat top vs. popup isn't to have the engine ported to the exact same timing numbers etc. Shoot for the same compression, but port the engine so it makes best power in either configuration. Different engines get ported differently due to the design involved. Do the best porting for each setup at the same compression, see how the power compares. That will tell you which method works best. It's a whole method, not just piston vs. piston.
They sure was Installin some pop ups on each others heads.I just spent 20 minutes watching girl fights on youtube. It was glorious.
Welp........it can't be settled.
I'll stop saying cut squish is better if you stop saying it ain't.
Deal?
I say this because what if 10 years later, the porter of a saw (with a popup) is no longer in business, etc., and I need another piston. Then I've got to find someone to try and match the original, and they may not even want to mess with it since it wasn't their work to begin with.
Waylan
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