Leo Lichtman wrote:

What his grandfather didn't understand is that you don't want the charge in
the cylinder to *explode*. You want it to burn as evenly as possible on the
power stroke. That is what anti-knock is all about.

And how do you -know- he didn't understand that?
He got the engines to run, which meant the nitro was burning. He just
couldn't control things well enough to do much beyond that. Admittedly,
it was shade tree engineering. But I'd bet money if Great-Grandpa were
around to be questioned, he would certainly know the difference between
burning and exploding with respect to internal combustion engines.


Jon