ameristar1
The One Blue Thing
I've been here for over two years, I've had some crazy ideas but before this influx of new guys the the general answer for thinking outside the box was it cant be done.
Here's what helps me. It's an internal combustion engine, period. The principles behind power, gas or diesel, are the same. Find the limitations, fix 'em. And if someone says it can't be done, I ask why, then ask what can be done to fix it.
Can't be done is not a good enough answer.
Innovation can't take place if conventions aren't challenged.
And, I'm sorry to say, when you get comfortable with what you have or where you are, you get stuck.
The only way this engine is going to get better is by trying new things and blowing it up, to see why it did. That takes time and risk, and unless you have the guts to do it and the money, it won't happen.
But as we talk about it on the forums, and contributing, a clear plan emerges.
Bigger pumps and injectors are out there, going to bigger or multiple turbos than what the kits have to offer, changing the camshaft, getting rid of the glowplugs, altering the timing and fuel maps in the pumps, headers. There's always something that can be done.
If an IDI can run toe to toe with a PSD, heck even beat a PSD, it'll raise the popularity of the motor quite a bit. Especially if it can be done in an economical manner.