Port Charlotte man claims device can boost car mileage to 500 mpg (Air Vapor Flow System)

Bonita News ^ | 10/09/07 | GREG MARTIN

[thackney]

LOL!!!

[Moonman62]

Some of the financial problems stem from an incident in which Weston was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. The incident occurred July 8 at his house at 917 Dupin Ave. when, according to a sheriff's report, police were involved in a 10-hour standoff with an armed Weston.

LOL, and he'll still find suckers to give him money.

[wastedyears]

Will it keep the spark plug?

[ChildOfThe60s]

The breakthrough came after Weston, who routinely smokes cigarettes while working on his engines, needed to peer into the gas tank of a lawn mower engine. It was dark in the tank.

"I didn't have a flashlight at the time, so I used a lighter," he recalled.

He's lucky he can recall...

[vetsvette]

He’s a moron, but at least he’s an entertaining moron.

I just wish that he was more original.

[ASOC]

ROTFLMAO

The Law will not be denied - gas engines are a type of heat pump after all, and until the laws of thermodynamics are repealed.....

400 mpg (snort)

[MichaelP]

Sorry, there simply isn't that much energy in a gallon of gas, vaporized or otherwise...

Mike

[Oberon]

It occurs to me that that’s way more than 100 percent efficient. The biggest problem is having to stop from time to time to dump all that excess gasoline that keeps filling up the tank...

[VanShuyten]

Called the Air Vapor Flow System, or AVFS, the device functions by vaporizing gasoline before it gets inducted into the engine.

That's what used to be called a carburetor. They used to use those before fuel injection became technically feasible.

[Right Wing Assault]

more than 99 percent of the fuel going into a modern engine gets vaporized and burned in the combustion chamber

So, it would be just a little tricky to increase the mileage by a factor of 10.

Sounds like he worked on his con-man routine in prison.

[ari-freedom]

it doesn’t matter if you are GED ex con or a tenured professor with 5 PhD’s. Real science is what is tested and proven in the real world.

[kAcknor]

needed to peer into the gas tank of a lawn mower engine. It was dark in the tank. "I didn't have a flashlight at the time, so I used a lighter,"

LOL indeed. Not the sharpest arrow in the quiver. That does not mean the device isn't real, but I do wish him luck.

[Joe Miner]

For people that believe this:

Weston is convinced that the car traveled 14.8 miles on about 4 ounces of gasoline during the test. If accurate, that would amount to some 473 miles per gallon.

This is the most important thing you can get from the article:

-- Release the emergency brake. This tip saves a bundle.

[JimRed]

Called the Air Vapor Flow System, or AVFS, the device functions by vaporizing gasoline before it gets inducted into the engine.

I thought that was what fuel injection did.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

If his idea works, why doesn’t he just fill the tank, wax seal the gas door and prove it by driving to Seattle?

[dennisw]

What you don’t get is that this unsung hero is vaporizing the air before it gets to the combustion chamber

[ozzymandus]

I read down to the part about his prison GED and quit. Is this the same guy who invented the 200 MPG carb and the pills that turn water into gas? I thought GM had him killed.

[theymakemesick]

"Weston is convinced that the car traveled 14.8 miles on about 4 ounces of gasoline during the test."

He must have driven it to the top of Pike's Peak and coasted down with the engine idling to get those results. I guess he would claim a comparable "conventional" gasoline engine is running at about 5% of the efficiency it could with his system. Why isn't liquid gasoling pouring out of the exhaust of "conventional" powered cars or produce horrible unburned hydrocarbon (soot) pollution?

[EGPWS]

Thank you Libloather.

ROTFLMAO! (gasp)