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Re: Diesel Engines, Unthrottled Operation
Posted to HD/Fleet Forum on 2/15/2014 1 Reply

The stoichiometric mixture for diesel is 14.6:1 (air to fuel), but as Albin mentioned previously, that ratio would result in a lot of black smoke being emitted from the exhaust system, and that is due to the slow burning nature of diesel fuel given the time pa... Login to read more.

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