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Sure.

The patent was licensed, not the engine and the FDC was patented by Continental. Also, missing from an earlier post, the FDC patent:

The reason for bypassing the FDC is to prevent leakage of fuel into the crankcase, an indication that micro particles wear the honed surfaces of the piston within, causing this problem. It doesn't change any of the abilities of the multifuel engine from burning any mixture of fuels, diesel just...

Here is the front page of the patent for the fuel density compensator. Go to the US Patent and Trademark Office and download the rest of it.

Quote from Ken: "As the piston travels down on the power stroke the puddle of fuel is sopposed to vaporize and burn. I have this prosess in a TM somewhere, I'll have to dig it up." I have never seen this explained and would be interested to know how it is supposed to work. Let me (us) know if...

I have found that the flame heaters work poorly on turbo engines. The intake manifold adapter is much narrower than the one on the naturally aspirated ones. The increased speed of the air snuffs out the flame (made a monitoring device for this). The spark plug actually generates a continues...