[Gasification] OT --- Ethanol in non "flex-fuel" vehicles.

[Mark Ludlow]

Dear Mr. Viswanathon:

All of the time I spent porting and polishing small-block Chevy heads
wasted! A slip of the tools would have done me more benefit!

It's hard to understand what's going on here. Is this the cousin to the
150mpg carburetor that the oil companies suppressed or is there something
here that the computational fluid dynamics folks ignored?

Interesting post.

Mark

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[mailto:gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Viswanathan KS
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:08 PM
To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification
Subject: Re: [Gasification] OT --- Ethanol in non "flex-fuel" vehicles.

Dear Mr Hermon Seaver

Grooving of cylinder head may improve mileage by 20% plus.
Many examples can be seen in web site www.somender-singh.com

K.S. Viswanathan


On 5/31/07, Harmon Seaver <hseaver at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Yes, I realize that this truck is not optimal for running ethanol, 
> but the turbo version of this engine are about as scarce as the diesel 
> version, and either usually runs at least $1000 in running shape from 
> a junkyard if you can find them, plus shipping. I've thought of adding 
> a turbo to this engine, but that adds a heavy load to the piston tops 
> and bearings, both which are considerably heavier on a factory turbo 
> engine, and at 250K, do I dare chance that?
>   So if it turns out that I get 25% less mpg, so what? The E85 is 1/3 
> cheaper. And the main point of the experiment is to find out if it 
> runs well in this vehicle more or less as is. If so, then I can make 
> the fuel myself for essentially just my time and drive more or less 
> for free. My time doesn't seem to worth much these days. 8-) or is it 
> 8-( depends on how you look at it.
>
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