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Originally Posted by justpassntime
Why do you guys insist on messing with O2 sensors to lean fuel ratio?
There is an easier way. It's called the atmospheric or barometric pressure sensor. If you put a 25k pot switch on it you turn it down until the idle speed lowers. There are no funky lights or warnings to contend with. You are simply telling the ecu you are driving at a higher altitude than you really are.
They are usually three wire, ground, 12v, and one thats around 2-5v. The lower voltage one is the one you want to put the switch on.
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Outstanding suggestion! Thank you for your insight. I am not an EE person.
One of the tremendous 'hurdles' facing innovators is the lack of
imagination ( "The world is flat!" crowd amidst us ) ; ie, there is so much gullibility, pseudoscience, greed, and ego that it twists our thinking, We fall victims to ourselves due to our clinging to hope or out of sheer desperation.
Does anyone here remember the $9.95 "Powerfoam" trick sold by JC Whitney back during the 1st energy crisis? This plastic bottle bubbled furiously ( driven by manifold vacuum) and the water vapor thus generated was claimed to increase power, acceleration, and gas mileage...as well as clean the carbon from your valves & rings. This was in the early '70s! The tune being sung today is the same (even the words are the same), but the methods are fancier (razzle-dazzle). But the bubbles! Wow! The seat-of-the-pants gauge pegged! The liquid water level didn't drop very fast...but the bubbles!
Technical language pushes mo$t of us off balance. Misuse of science
terms ( the last one I saw was "thermal dynamics") dazzles us more.
My point? All this talk of "Brown's Gas", HHO, and the dangers of H2 generation serves to cram the lid on the fact hydrogen is so common ( and yet so tightly bound) merely serves to cloud our imagineering (sic) vision to the fact H2 is so explosive! Being explosive is what makes a fuel, yes? And it's such a clean fuel! I am currently working on a mileage / emissions improver for
gasoline ( I'm about 85ish % there) which is going to amaze some people. My Scangauge II set-up will take the utter confusion from my test procedures...and a friend's videotaping expertise ( he is the chief engineer at a local TV station) will document everything. No fuzzy shots, no gaps, no funky lighting, no splicing ( a clock will ensure this), no jerky film clips, no BS ("Bad Science").
Stay tuned. And please don't hit me with E-mails! I can't do but so much....
-whitevette
P.S. Part of this concept is done; it flies solo very well...it isn't performing as well as it could, but it does fly... it's a chemical modifier for the burning rate of gasoline. By slowing this flame front instead of "speeding it up" (as conventional wisdom dictates), more complete combustion occurs... along with improved internal engine geometries. Now the hydrogen generator must be added...as must the EGT thermocouples and the soon-to-be-arriving Scangauge. Initial runs will not await graphing capabilities (documentation)...all this will come later.