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Originally Posted by P-hack
He said he will delete this thread if we don't come up with his system for him, to his standards, within one week... We just need to think harder, but for sure it will work, his buddy is just trying to make a living.
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Could just as well be a beat up old diesel LUV... right? Or is there something else at play here?
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And please forgive the overzealous denizens of this forum. Many are not scientists, and those who are have very narrow specialties as those of us in the sciences are wont to have. They easily get excited about pie tins and used sign boards and denigrate anyone who wants to do anything mind bending with engines. The few on this forum who do work with engine modifications have often come under duress from experts who have never set foot inside a dyno lab.
Feel free to stick around for a bit. Just ignore the "negative Nancy" crowd of experts and maybe you can get a constructive thread going.
And yes, I have built vapor carbs, GEETS and reformer engines. They all have their positives and their pitfalls. But, when you side step the hocus pocus surrounding them, they all have some good science.
rusty,
the only thing i dont agree with is the geet. i actually met paul, i spent about a week helping him move out of oklahoma, i gave him 300$ for designs, then spent about a grand on the right hoses and welded up a vehicle sized geet, when it didnt work paul wouldnt help, wouldnt refund, and i was pretty mad about that. i understand fully annotated engineering drawings, and paul gave me scribbles with measurements for my money then left me high and dry. i believe his little plasma vortex tube belongs in the unicorn coral.. just because its not what he claims it to be, but it is a vapor carb. i have seen it able to use heavy oils as fuel but with constant air adjustments needed and no intake or exhaust flow its not practical at all
Frank is right, my dad bought the fullsize bronco custom ordered from ford back in may 1989. it was the first vehicle i rode home from the hospital in, and i thought it was the coolest truck id ever seen growing up. theres no way ill ever get rid of it, and some will think i have destroyed it with my modifications. i bought an f350 in scramento and flew out to get it for next to nothing, drove the 460 4x4 5 speed f350 back on 7 cylinders across the country and rebuilt the parts into my bronco. i have military runflat tires that are cheap but heavy, the military 37's, and it is a beast to drive down the south canadian river, with the combo i can lay down rubber on dry pavement and it is the most fun ive ever had. absolutely abused it all till about 2 years ago and started fixing every single thing the RIGHT WAY. now its got everything rebuilt, i just need to drop in the stereo, and wire up everything, finish the rear bumper, and do the alternative fuel experiment and its ready to drive. i actually have made money buying a parts truck for near nothing, then selling the 351 and c6 and dana 44's & everything else i dont need. now if i could get it puffing some syngas (from hydrocarbon waste) for long range hi way cruising i would be in heaven, i could drive my favorite truck state to state, out to pizmo ect.. AND NOT SPEND A FORTUNE DOING IT
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