Posted on 10/17/2013 6:06:17 AM PDT by thackney
Are you familiar with the ideal gas equation?
pV = nRT
The energy requirements for a sufficiently higher pressure are essential unchanged if you move a sufficiently lower volume.
no....Boyles Law [sic] is the only one I remember these days....ha
No I was about 12 and just play-doh’ed the valve to head clearance and milled it with wet sand-paper on top of a saw bed (I assumed it to be flat.)
I didn’t know about or understand the differences in metal expansion rates or valve float. I might even have spun it over 3600 rpm...
Great job! Back in the early 60s when I was a teen I hung out at a gas station where the owner had a Ford flathead stock car he raced.
They got some good power, but there were ongoing problems with cracking the block between the valves and cylinder bore.
I learned a lot about mechanics from those guys, the good old days.
Great job! Back in the early 60s when I was a teen I hung out at a gas station where the owner had a Ford flathead stock car he raced.
They got some good power, but there were ongoing problems with cracking the block between the valves and cylinder bore.
I learned a lot about mechanics from those guys, the good old days.
When I told my Uncle that we were working on it he said: “That strange I did the same when I went to Michigan 30 years ago.”
The economics and infrastructure were just not feasible at the time.
Now with fracking it looks more promising.
Its hard to beat the energy density, stability and portability of gasoline.
But I believe you are right about LNG in the long run.
The other option is that nat gas becomes pervasive in the commercial arena (where vehicles come back to a central fuel depot) and in railroads. Leaving more petroleum for cars.
Yeah, the to n percent corn fuel doesn’t give the same amount of “go” as the non corn blends.
Here in NY we have no choice, everything is ten to fifteen percent ethanol.
Which reduces your range in winter.
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