On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:51:22 +0100, tony sayer wrote:

Anyone got a really good graphical representation of the power
consumption/ load/ and output of a modern day IC engine at all?..

Not to hand and I'm nowhere near my library at the moment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_s...el_consumption

and scroll down to "Examples of values of BSFC for shaft engines"


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