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Old 01-12-2017, 12:54 AM   #95 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by racprops View Post
A common mistake is to use the exhaust heat to vaporize the gasoline, this fails because ones the ICE IS on vapor it cools down cutting the exhaust heat and the car stalls.
I think I've gotten my head wrapped most of the way around the idea, but I'm still parsing the above sentence.

It seems like reclaiming waste heat from the exhaust would be a no-brainer in boosting efficiency. So why would it stall? Is the fuel that effective at sopping up exhaust heat? Or is it because carburetors were involved and you can't control the mixture dynamically?
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