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Re: Waiting ... waiting ..... |
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MoparNorm |
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Jan 4, 08 - 4:11 PM |
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moparnorm@hotmail.com |
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Contrary to what was written below; "Sorry, but the mythical "heat the gas till they vaporize in a big block 5000lbs car and get 150mpg" are nothing more than that . . . . . mythical. Modern fuel injection does basically that already"
When I write that knowledge I have is first hand, I mean exactly that.
I said first hand, not urban legend, not a friend of a friend.
My first wife's grandfather was a tinkerer and a brilliant Engineer. He held the patent for the Coleman rooftop RV evaporative air conditioning unit that you see on every motor home and travel trailer. He invented a pneumatic nail gun for drywall that is now used by Maize Nail corporation for nailing foam insulation under exterior siding, it makes no difference what the density is of the material being shot, foam or concrete, the nail sets at the same depth, every time.
He would take a problem and solve it.
He was a life long Chrysler man and the fuel shortages of the 70's put his mind to work to get better fuel economy for any type or size of gas powered vehicle.
His carburetor was basically a pressure cooker, which preheated and atomized the fuel before it was injected into a stock manifold. The only car he had was an old 440 powered Imperial. He rigged the test equipment, pressure gage and recording instruments on a platform on the passenger side fender. We would be running 90 plus miles per hour down the back roads around Tulare CA. This crazy old inventor, his grandson and I, it was great scary fun! We would read the gages from our side of the car and give him the psi and temp data and drive around until we used up 20 gallons of fuel.
I imagine that anyone who saw us thought we were nuts.....
The highest mpg achieved was 150 with the combined mileage around 87 mpg.
There was a patent and he had contacts at Detroit, but the bottom line at the time was that no manufacturer wanted to buy an invention developed outside of their own R&D programs. The unit was too big to put under the hoods of existing vehicles and the "pressure cooker" aspect made it a potential liability issue.
So it does exist, it wasn't real practical but it did have potential. |
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