I have been googling this for 10 minutes and it seems the same to me. Are both methods not just using the air from the intake to add more resistance to the pistons and crankshaft?
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Regular engine braking air is still getting drawn into the cylinder, and you don’t have as much compression fighting your kinetic energy. From my understanding, a jake is a rocker arm that seals the cylinder off, increasing the resistance across more of the stroke, and you get more compression fighting. It’s just more of the engines’ cycle is resisting basically because it’s like an airlock
Edit: You don’t nessasarily get more compression, probably just a tiny amount. It’s that it holds the compression for much longer
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