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Originally Posted by racprops
From what I understand you will need major changes to the engine and to the programing of you CPU...all illegal...
And yes I know you can get a permit...but all the cost on my Car will only give me about 4 to 6 more MPG.
Look to overseas to see...VW had a Diesel car rated at 75MPG, and there are/were others with high MPG...
Rich
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The VW L1, The Pogue Vapor Car, the Shell Eco Racer . . . all are optimized to do one thing - get great MPG. You want to find a "device" you can slap on any gasoline engine and double mileage? You want it cheap enough so you can sell it to the general public? You want it to pass the most stringent emission laws currently in effect and slated to be enforced?
I brought up the work of Transonic because it is a lesson in the difficulty of what you ask. They doubled the thermal efficiency of the average gasoline engine of the time but at a great redesign to the whole concept of fuel management and mechanical utilization. What you seek is plausible, but it will take more research acumen and much deeper pockets. And it will not be a simple plug in device. It will be a ground up build like the VW L1 is.
You want a silver bullet when there simply is none.