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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
The focus on rich celebrities, investors, and costly hand-builds rather than completing the nearly complete car (could be finished and driving with very little money and a few week's work if he wanted to) reveals the true motivation here.
Then there's the content of what he said- just one example being the 2x- 3x fe gain claim. Don't think I'll sweep that under the rug.
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Man Frank,your pessimism is a bit of a downer! I on the other hand could be considered optimistic,a dreamer and a doer. I have worked on cars my entire life.They have always exhilerated me .I have done numerous frame off rotisory restorations,built a 1950 Austin radical custom rod pickup.I have over thirty years of cylinder head flowbench porting experiance.I have been to the salt flats about four times with a crew that i modified the twin Dominators carburetors for.The car is now retired with two records set ,the latest is just over 250mph in a 1977 Vega.Sorry i digress.Anyway my point is that all this stuff was great but i always wanted to design and build my own car from scratch and then see just how far it can be made to go on a gallon of gas.Sorry i am so passionate and driven by this project that i am capable of asking for financial backing on this Herculean project."Little money and two weeks work"what planet are you from?The body shape in the video is the plug made out of steel rods ,foil tape ,fibreglass and 24 gals of Bondo.That is not something you drive! It is something that allows me to build moulds from so that i can make numerous copies.Then sell these to people with an appreciation for something unique,efficient and exotic.Unless there is a huge demand they are a limited production hand built car,which is expensive.So here is my next two week schedule according to you.Finish the exterior body plug,design and build the complete interior plug,Rebuild and modify the engine with ported head and custom grind cam,Rebuild the 5 speed,Run all the wiring circuitry and gauges,Do the upholstery,finnish the chassis,build the rear swing axle and suspension,design and build the under body plug,build the inner fenders and firewall plug,design and build the headlight housing plugs ,build the fuel system,exhaust system,design and build the tailight plugs,redesign the wing shape plugs,redesign the hood and upper portions of the door plugs,build a complicated mould set,lay the materials into the moulds and build the first body,track test the prototype chassis,tweak and tune it,install body,block sand and detail the body to perfection and paint and polish it.There is too much to detail here completely.But i hope you understand your blunder in saying i could finish this project in two weeks.I estimate,i repeat estimate an additional 6000 hrs to complete the above mentioned and unmentioned.Now as far as my mileage claim goes,this is what i would expect to see,i will give you the actual results when all the R&D is done.Here is the numbers behind the expected results,Suzuki Forsa turbo stock 57 mpg ?This is accomplished with our current ice technology basicly utilizing 20% of the energy in the fuel to drive the car.Now with no simple task i'm sure ,lets recapture another 20% of the energy wasted , that should virtually double our base mileage.So now we could be close to 100mpg.Now put this package into the Zoleco,how much can a fully areo modded body reduce fuel consumption by? I know from areomod data that it could be at least 38%,lets try for 80%.Ok,here is my optimism again ,but that adds up to 180mpg.That is the ultimate goal .What will be achieved is to be discovered and thoroughly enjoyed after all that hard work was spent!!