[AT] Canola to diesel

[carl gogol]

This discussion has raised so much dust that I became curious what current 
MB diesel engines compression ratios actually are.  Went to their web site 
and found that many of their current offerings are gasoline these 
days -requiring 91 octane with an 11.2:1 ratio.  I finally found a diesel in 
their SUV lineup that has a compression ratio of 18:1, certainly high enough 
to be able to ignite diesel on compression alone.  Maybe this new  clean 
burn technology stuff requires higher compression than the 180s and the 
older ones did, but 18:1 is comparable to any 'merican made diesel.
Carl Gogol
Manlius, NY
AC One Seventy diesel
(2) AC D-14, AC 914H
Simplicity 3112 & 7116
Kubota F-2400