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Originally Posted by Hersbird
Any Dodge over a 1968 will be taken out by an emp anyway. You need points, condensor, ballast resistor and old style voltage regulator. 1968 was a great year.
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Really? If so I need to faraday those parts!!!!
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Originally Posted by elhigh
"When," not "if?" You're losing me. At this point I'm beginning to fear you may be a nut. The mention of "underunity" engines makes me fear even more that you may be a nut, because it suggests you might hold out belief that there can be such a thing as "overunity" engines.
It ain't so. Not with physics as we know it.
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Not going to argue here or debate it, but despite what everybody says; Overunity (more energy out than in) IS possible and that is how advanced alien civilizations get around. It will be very hard for Humans to go anywhere of distance in the universe using primitive propulsion technology, think of all the energy required to get to Mars! All those alien invasion movies don't make sense as they would require unlimited amounts of energy to get to Earth, and if your species has unlimited amounts of energy you don't need to invade Earth! With unlimited amounts of energy aliens have no need for our spines or resources. Using our level of smelting technology and their overunity tech, they could melt down asteroids for all the resources they ever need!
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You came with a practical problem and proposed a couple of wildly impractical solutions. Others - some with experience almost directly in line with your paradigm - proposed highly practical solutions with reasonably achievable goals.
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Right now I am weighing all my options for cheap over-the-road & self sufficient travel.
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A different carb would give you a level of tunability you do not currently have. You could come close to a lean burn operating regime, at which point your vehicle would cruise with previously unheard of economy. These carbs are not hard to find.
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Find me a carb or point to makes and models of cars with this carb that is interchangable with the 318 engine I have in the low hundreds and I'll consider it.
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A TBI or MPFI setup would give you a much, much more reliable setup than the current carb, which by your own admission is not getting the job done.
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Unless the posters know of a fuel injection conversion kit in the low hundreds, it wouldn't be worth it. Why spend 5 grand on a fuel injection conversion kit when another used good-to-great condition van with fuel injection can be had for less.
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Another poster even suggested - and I thought this was sheer genius - that you retain a carb as the throttle for your injection setup. This would provide you with a side-of-the-road conversion capacity in the event of an EMP.
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Sounds liken a great idea.
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Another poster pointed out that your electronic ignition is likely just as vulnerable to EMP as the ECU of an injection system, so worrying about EMP without installing a points system is, ha-ha, pointless.
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Really? What replacement parts do I need to replace or at least hotwire the electronic ignition?
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You have mentioned your budget more than once when denying the feasibility of a different vehicle, even as you return to the idea of making a cobbled-together hybrid system or, God help us, wood gas system. Another poster already pointed out, and let me restate, that the greatest return on any investment would be to optimize the vehicle you already have. You won't be adding equipment to it, you will be eliminating faults.
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It certainly sound the cheapest.
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You have pointed out that reliability is important to you, even while switching back and forth on your possible alternative fuel ideas. I fear that you may not have the expertise or perseverance to design and implement an alternative system that is as reliable even as the engine you now have.
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Can somebody do some back-of-the-envelope calculations as to the initial cost and fuel economy of a pusher trailer with an ultraefficient engine/trans/drivetrain that pushes the van 100%?