quench vs no quench?

RustyRatRod said
I'll take a crack at it. The way I see it, quench has one basic purpose. And it's really not to make additional power over a non quench engine. The purpose of quench is to allow an engine to have a higher compression ratio based on the fuel that's available.

So the way the OP asked the question, the two engines will make about the same power, because the non quench engine is allowed to have fuel so that it does not detonate.

Both engines have 10:1 compression in the OP's example, but are allowed fuel to where neither will detonate. So the non quench engine probably has 98 or so octane....assuming of course they have iron heads.

I know a flat top motor may make a little more power because of good flame propagation and all that fancy talk, but that's splittin hairs.

IMO, the two engines given the parameters the OP described will make very similar power. Of course, I could be wrong.....and if I am I wanna learn why.

Yes exactly what I'm asking and wondering about! Thanks! I'm not expecting huge number differences between the two, but since the quench head would most likely need less timing because of the better flame travel would less power be robbed compared to the non quench engine that requires more timing. Since the cylinder fires before the quenched chamber does that extra couple degrees use up some of the torque? Does it have a damper effect, since it has to push through that extra couple degrees to complete the explosion?