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Old 11-20-2012, 11:56 AM   #60 (permalink)
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sc1 - '98 saturn sc1
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90 day: 43.17 mpg (US)

Airplane Bike - '11 home built Carp line Tour

rans - '97 rans tailwind

tractor - '66 International Cub cadet 129

2002 Space Odyssey - '02 Honda Odyssey EX-L
90 day: 28.25 mpg (US)

red bug - '00 VW beetle TDI

big tractor - '66 ford 3400

red vw - '00 VW new beetle TDI
90 day: 58.42 mpg (US)

RV - '88 Winnebago LeSharo
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All cars use to have this feature, way back when, they have a thermostatic valve on the exhaust and hot exhaust would flow across the intake manifold during warm up. I think you could do this simply with one valve controlling the inlet coolant flow to a coil wrapped around the exhaust pipe. The valve is at the top of the tube. When the valve is off the coolant boils out of the tube like a vapor lock, no problem.
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