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Power curve graph comparing BV and B60 engine units.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 123\5\  scan0292
Date  1st February 1939 guessed
  
CURVE 6
COMPARISON OF BV UNIT AND B60 UNIT (POWER.)
BOTH UNITS WITH STD. B.V. SYSTEM 2-1 1/2 S.U. CARBS.
① B60 - OPEN EXHAUST OPENED THROAT Po 292
AEROLITE PISTONS FLUSH WITH TOP OF BLOCK
6·4:1 COMPRESSION RATIO
SODIUM FILLED EXHAUST VALVES
VALVE TIMING ·030 CLCE IO·8° PTDC EO 44° BB } EB4026
IC·28°PBDC EC 4° BTDC }
(1a) NON DETONATING POWER REDLINE (TEST BED EXHAUST)
② BV - OPEN EXHAUST - STD. WRAITH HEAD
AEROLITE RAISED CROWN PISTON 170-6·5:1 RATIO.
STD. SOLID EXHAUST VALVES
VALVE TIMING ·030 CLCE IO·1° PTDC EO 46° BBDC } ECD.673
IC 50° PBDC EC 7° PTDC } SHAFT
(2a) NON DETONATING.
POWER REDLINE (TEST BED EXHAUST SYSTEM)
B.H.P. AND M.E.P.
R.P.M.
IGN. ADVE. BTDC
  
  
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).


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