My grandfather told me of a device he was offered for a car in the 50s that greatly increased it's mileage. Looking back on how he described it, it was probably an early throttle-body injection device. Same for a friend who said his great-uncle, who lived in the heart of GM land, bought a new car that got extraordinary mileage (for the 50s.) GM apparently bought it back (as in "we didn't mean to sell that one", here's your money back) a few weeks later and gave him a new car for his trouble. Again, it sounds like early throttle-body stuff. GM was certainly playing with it at the time.
It wasn't that, the way he described it to me was looked almost like a regular carburetor and just bolted in where the original carb was.
They do bolt in where the regular carb goes, and when the air cleaner is on it just looks like a normal engine.
I've seen videos of the guys using like an external gas tank and a heating element or something to boil the fuel. I believe that works. Immensely impractical for an actual vehicle (I mean at that point just build an electric car).
It probably does help a little, it would allow the gasoline to vaporize easier. Dangerous as all get-out, tho.
Well that's part of what I meant by impractical. The demos I saw have people standing by with fire extinguishers, and the whole thing is done stationary. Yet some people are acting like this is some secret Detroit has been hiding from the American people. People are weird.
??? There have been inventions that turned gas into vapor prior to entering the carburetor which is how it's supposed to work. That's why they moved on from the carb to the fuel injector that can't do that, and had their lackeys in congress make the old system illegal for "environmental reasons", lol always to save the environment, children or you, always the same trick. That doesn't put money into their pockets from you to them fast enough so.....it's illegal cause the 3 reasons above. Even big 4 door "boats" from the 70's were getting near 200 miles to the gallon....that hurts their profits...Truth and reality does not matter to them, only profits and control.
Right, they heat the fuel and disperse it to achieve near 100% vaporization. With carburetors and fuel injection there are still liquid droplets that are basically wasted.
what drugs do you smoke?
I don’t think it was as much about turning it into vapor as a plasma. When most hydrocarbons like gasoline are heated to 3-400° they stabilize into a plasma. I think what the trick was they claimed with some of those vaporizers was that when heated to a plasma like that, other liquids of at least 30-40% hydrocarbon began to perform well enough to “allegedly” run through the same engines. The trick was that the vaporizer had to be configured in size and temperature for each specific fuel. And the way the manufactures first tried to stop ppl from using these even before injection was the catylatic converter. I’m not sure if they existed yet or not, but they did make it mandatory for the catalytic converter to be mounted directly off the end of the header, which was exactly where you needed to run those vaporizers to achieve sufficient temperatures. So you couldn’t achieve those temperatures further down in the exhaust.
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