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so the above pics show the carb hat set up for taking air that must go near the exhaust manifold to get hot before being filtered by a 50 micron SS 316 screen and then going into the carb
i also show the sight glass im going to have on the carb spacer to see whats going on in the intake
and ive cut out both upper and lower, along with air filter screens. i might try to test without steam and if i drive down the road and notice some missing and pinging ill think about steam. im so anxious to get this experiment started!
marcello videos to stress intake fire
^^^ pause this video at time t= 3:51 , you can see the "opaque" nut at the end of his vaporizer (just to the right of the brass valve) where in the video before this one he shows a close up of the nut where the fuel and air mixture is igniting randomly, (you can see the flame "flicker" through the opaque nut) this shows that you can get the intake charge of fuel and air so hot it actually ignites in your intake with out really affecting engine performance. i believe this is necessary to run HEAVY oils, in a rapid moving intake stream they dont spend much time hanging around in the intake, its a volume flow rate and distance problem to find the dwell time, but if it doesnt spend much time it wont burn very long and hopefully just enough to "crack the oil" or partially oxidize into smoke, if the oil can be partially combusted or smoked in the intake its going to burn completely in the cylinder of a 4 stroke without tailpipe smoke. just from intensely heating the intake charge the fuels 100% gasoline, 100% ethanol, 100% kerosene, and 100% diesel should all run the engine, and any mixture of those above should be able to run the engine. at some ratio of heavier oils ( used solvent, ATF, WMO, WVO, hydraulic oil, ect) to (gasoline/ethanol/kerosene/diesel) im guessing there will be a limit of around 80-90% but it would be amazing to hit 100% heavy waste oils as fuel and still be able to cruise down the highway/drive the vehicle.
so *IF* i can hit 100% heavy oils, and hit 100% of the lighter 4 fuels, i will call this a complete success. this would mean i can pour just about any filtered oil or fuel into my gas tank at any ratio. i should be able to find plenty of some or all of the waste products i intend to use for fuel and be able to get them for free, and therefore be able to operate a large, useful, fun truck for free!
additional resources
*i just really like these videos, maybe you will too*
the story of gasoline
riding the film (a bit outdated but close enough)
chemistry of fire (THIS IS AN AWESOME VIDEO)
gasoline for everybody
gas engines running on diesel/kerosene/ethanol
woodgas videos (P hack, i found the one where wayne suggests using roadkill, it makes me laugh every time)
ADDITIONAL HELPFUL LINKS ON RUNNING OTHER FUELS IN GAS ENGINES
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...g-23754-2.html
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...car-12518.html
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...e-11163-3.html