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Originally Posted by Christ
Phil -
I've not ventured to actually see or attempt to reproduce/test any of the patents, but could [at least some of] the gains claimed in those designs been more a matter of airflow profiling? Just as [in high air velocity applications] a single large barrel is far more efficient than multiple smaller barrels, I believe that airflow through the older carbs was a very neglected feature of efficiency gains, and these people may have looked at that as well as vaporization and other enhancements to be able to make those claims, with even an ounce of legitimacy.
I guess I'm asking if it was really snake oil they were cooking up, or if someone just didn't read the recipe correctly?
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I've got the book on the 200-mpg carbs.They don't even appear to understand volumetric efficiency,they're going strictly off gains from vaporization.
And some of the designs "work",here;s the rub.
You take your Mercury station wagon with V-8 power,push the car up to 35-mph,start the engine and engage the clutch and you can get 200-mpg.
You can't go below 35-mph and you can't go faster.
There is no "throttling" allowed.
I gotta go,shop closing,will catch up.