Now this is something I\'ve been wondering about since the 70\'s! WAY cool idea and I hope it comes out soon. By the way the Pulse Star plugs really do work I\'ve been using them for a couple years now. :-)

I think you\'ll find that the fuel in a cylinder burns, as the engine\'s not strong enough to contain explosions - that\'s \"pinking\".

Schmoe - First of all, it\'s \"pinging\" - not \"pinking\". Pinging or pre-detonation is caused when the A/F mixture ignites prematurely, usually due to excess heat, poor fuel, incorrect timing or a lean condition. The fact is in a normal internal combustion engine, the air and fuel do in fact ignite and explode under pressure.
Check the definitions of burning, combustion and explosion. Explosions are rapid thermal chemical reactions which result in heat and an expansion of gases. That\'s what happens in your car engine. Burning is what happens when you sit around the campfire...

\"Pinking\" is a word used to mean the same thing as \"Pinging\", perhaps more often in the UK.

But I love this idea - weapons-grade lasers, available at your corner auto-parts store!

Quite the teaser article! How about giving us some actual comparison numbers - e.g., percentage improved horsepower, percentage improved mileage. That kind of thing.

If Formula 1 isn\'t doing it, don\'t expect it anytime soon for the general public. You\'re not going to be able to just throw them in a car. The entire system will have to be designed around them.
The Pulse plug is a capacitive discharge plug and not remotely related to a \"laser plug\"

It matters not how they accomplish it. Anything replacing our present antique Spark Plug which comes in priced competitely & improves fuel efficiency is long overdue. Today\'s high tech Pulse devices, one which costs the same as 6 normal plug changes, aren\'t affordable for the average home mechanic who also is fond of Food. Yeh, it\'s Pinging, you just got to love pollution controls.


Zappenfusen

\'pinking\' is the correct term here in europe at least.

Please excuse, but it Pings under our Bonnets. We often forget the the www in the address. My first correction this week, made it all the way to Monday. No offense intended,
I love you guy\'s.

Zapp

Dirty pinkos (old U.S. term,but not for pinging). once when I was very young I saw an injection/ignition system using lasers and exotic liquified gases(I forget the exact compound) but it burned exceptionally clean and it could reclaim the fuel several times.
There were a few articles on it in a performance boat magazine.
I always wondered why.
It was supposedly working but I always wondered if they got bought out,was it even real,etc.