[Sparkeysmall]

Ive had thoughts of upping the comression ratio. Stock is supposed to be 8.4:1 on this engine. I need to do some research and find out what the dynamic ratio is so i can raise it just enough to still use 87 octane at low altitude. I had a 1.5l 12 valve hyundai that had 10:1. But i had to run 89 in it for it to run smoothly. Im thinking if i can shave the block down to 9.5:1 or so i could get higher efficiency.

Now. On that. Ive also been wanting to convert a vehicle to run on e-85. From the research i did years ago in order to get good efficiency out of ethenol you would have to run around 14:1 compression. Obviously that would make regular pump gas unusable. And i see e-85 pumps pretty much everywhere ive gone. Or atleast within a 50 mile radius. I dont remember what the cost is at the moment but has always been quite a bit cheaper than gasoline. Ill have to do some more research about it.

I have done alot of recent googling on HHO. And ive found "I get 4000 miles per gallon", and "i blew up"..... Now. Anybody who know anything about efficiency knows that the energy used to crack up the water with electricity from the alternator and ultimately gasolene. Would ultimately use more energy then feeding from an external source. Ive had thoughts of running a slim solar panel on the roof to supply the juice to split up the water. But. It would probably be more efficient to use that electricity to power an electric motor to drive the wheels.

I always wondered. Why dont they put a few hundred watts of solar on the roof of hybrids to eek out a few more miles. I know its not really that much power coming in vs going to the road. But sitting in a parking lot all day with no charging stations you could potentially soak up a few miles. Or even get you home if you run out if gas in the desert....

I still really like the idea of strapping an electric drive into the truck. But the expense to do it would take around 10 years to pay off. Atleast while using new controllers that could push that much power. This simplest way i could figure to do it would to have manual switches to control when the motor and generator were running. But would have 0 control over how much power is applied or pulled. If i could make it where the motor kicked on after a set amount of throttle, it would be like a sudden push. And turn on the generator with the brake light. However that is a very simple system. But would get the job Done.

Anyway. Im going to do more research on e-85. The whole purpose of this project is mainly to save money. Mostly on fuel. The manual transmission swap is more of a preference thing, but is a major contributor. And it would be fun to say my gas one ton is a hybrid, and gets 30. But at what cost.