Planning to supply supercharge kit for ford six

[Thad]

The original conspricy story was a carb that would make a 3,500# car go 50 MPH at 50 MPG.

Yes there are cars today that can get 50 MPG or even better, but None weigh as much as 3,500#, None of they are carbed and not all are gasoline.

The fabulous, fantastic carb of the original story never existed. Yes technology has advanced to the point of almost matching the fanasty, but with EFI, with less weight and better aerodynamics. Still it tookm a long time to better the aerodynamics of the '53-'56 Studebakers

 

[Anonymous]

Hot rod magazine had a article on a Hot Fuel Injection system awhile back. Used no type of conventional throttle setup. It instead use a variable valve lift and duration setup to modulate the speed of the engine. This was being developed by a former Army machinest and mechanic in his own garage. The magazine guys actually went there and observed him run one engine on a stand and another in his truck. Claimed mileage was very high and the whole principal was based on heating the fuel. By the way the modern I.C.E is only about 20% or less effecient. Also carbuerators were not axed due to fuel mileage problems, it was emmisions. Many carburated cars got better mileage than your "fuel sipping" injected cars. My Chevette is a 1980 model,gets 40mpg and is most definately carburated!!!

 

[Anonymous]

At one time I was seriously considering a project similar in concept to our friends at www.impulseengines.com. Mine however was a sort of reversed supercharger. With a turbine(I think that's what you call the exhaust side of a turbo) connected to a shaft to spin it from a belt off the engine. You would use it in a reversed position to draw air out of the engine. This would create a vaccum in the exhaust and on the overlap of the engine it would help draw more air and fuel into the combustion chamber. I really never went to far with the idea but always thought it would have worked. Oh well

 

[Asa]

At one time I was seriously considering a project similar in concept to our friends at www.impulseengines.com. Mine however was a sort of reversed supercharger. With a turbine(I think that's what you call the exhaust side of a turbo) connected to a shaft to spin it from a belt off the engine. You would use it in a reversed position to draw air out of the engine. This would create a vaccum in the exhaust and on the overlap of the engine it would help draw more air and fuel into the combustion chamber. I really never went to far with the idea but always thought it would have worked. Oh well

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wonder what would cause it to not work... (one of the "intelligenter" guys will ring in in a sec, then i'll get my reason)
my thoughts:
1) what about leaky valve-seals? wouldn't it make them worse?
2) could it pull more oil from the rings?
it sounds like it could/would work, but i think the main problem would be oil control issues like those above......
cool idea, i'd like to see it in action
wonder what would it sound like........

 

[StrangeRanger]

It would work if done right, but it wouldn't give muchin the way of gains. You're still not going to be compressing the incoming air so there's a limit to the gains. It would get normal engines up into the range of volumetric efficiency approx. = 1, but a blower can easily get to 1.5 or more. If you're going to sink time, effort and money into it do what you know works.