Engineer Gets 110mpg

It's up to individuals to come up with the solutions with out government help.
I was watching green tv a few days a go they had a short segment on one of the shows a man in California is working on a electric car set up using lithium batteries and almost has everything ready to recycle old cars and turn them into electric cars. He had one example ready is a 68 Camaro total electric and showed him driving it with 2 of the host from the show and burning rubber when he pulled out of his shop. I will try to find a link.

 

They know we are doing things and they don't like it. The one statement that came from this G8 meeting was that all oil producing nations should pump more oil to reduce prices. Lower the price and they get less taxes. Lower the price and farmers get less money for ethanol-corn, lower the prices and they can't afford to campaign on a Green platform with grants and incentives for all! Lower the price and we don't push ourselves to find a cheaper way to travel, take our kids to school, grocery shop, get building materials. Heck if they lower the price, we might even afford a case of beer! My god, imagine that! No gas tax revenue hurts more than alcohol tax.

Apparently gasoline sales are DOWN in Canada by 4% in the last 30 days! Ouch for the governments, Federal and Provincial since they both charge road tax, and even bigger Ouch for the provinces that are making fuel consumers pay a carbon tax on gasoline and diesel and home-heating fuels. Industry can apply their upgrade costs against the carbon-tax. Bad consumers. we're only 22% of the carbon problem in our cars, 24% in our homes. the rest is farming/ranching (24%) and industry (30%). But we've got taxable income - easy targets.

 

Here you go Norm. Right up your alley and a V4 engine

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Cars...hash=item350077904048&_trksid=p3756.m14.l1318

 

The Horn, Mirror and a dozen other things are missing. They were from Norway, weren't they? Never paid them much attention - too ugly.

Cheap though! I heard they were rugged, but that one looks that all the rugged was used up!

 

SAAB...Swedish now GM owned company. I thought the V4 could go in your wagon.

GM is now considering closing SAAB, Buick and Saturn.

 

They've got some splashy ads for Saturns up here. Maybe they think we're the dead-model dumpsite.

If I put a V4 in there, it would be a Ranger V4 - same HP as the 302 and sits right on the same V8 X-member (I kept it). I'll give this 200 cid six a good run though. I was really impressed with Andy's Monty six. smooth and easy on gas, except when he drove in front of me at 85 MPH with Mabel. He wanted me to see what speed he driving at, since Mabel's was way off!

 

The 200 is pretty smooth at highway speeds. I was impressed with mine. Mine idles very very smooth for a smogged engine. I've always had the impression that inline sixes were a little rough idleing until I got the Cougar. I think if you get yours in good tune you should see high twenty's on the highway. If I remember you have the 3:08 rear end. You might even squeak past the 30 mark. Certainly you should see low 20's in and around Winnepeg.

 

I kept the Mexican rearend and the orange speedo gear (20 teeth) supposedly for the 3.08:1 but the Squire's is a 3.07:1, with old style drive shaft (no balancing collars on each end) just straight old U-Joints. It won't be a big difference, but I hope that Advance Curve kit makes a difference. Andy's got it in his Monty, and he'll probably do up Mabel with it too. I would in a flash. Well back to work.

 

Speaking about engines, I saw some Ford type cars over here (incl Mercury) having the 302. I found an article in Popular Hotrodding about the rebuild of 302. Actually, they only used new TFS heads, new cam and a rpm manifolt and came to almost 400 hp! The heads are actually not giving higher compression or bigger burn chambers, but are flowed to optimise filling of the cilinder (with big openeings but small prechambers they increase flow speed). I imagine that this has to improve mpg as well, or not?

 

I bet it would improve gas milage. The standard Corvette has 400 horsepower and returns 27 mpg on the highway. High teens in local driving. My friend has a 65 Chevrolet Impala SS with a 525 horsepower 383 (stroked 350) chevy engine. With the standard 3.23:1 rear end he's getting 24 on the highway. So, I think you can conclude that a properly breathing and tuned engine will return good mile per gallon.

 

Speaking or airplanes lets just look at one. In the world there are over 2000 F/A-18 aircraft operated by 8 countries with several more considering.

I spent 16 years working on and supervising the maintenance on F/A-18s. Every time they flew each plane used on average 1250 gallons jet fuel for each 1.5 hours of flight. And this is one of the more fuel efficient two engine fighters ever built. The US Navy flys F/A-18s about 1.5-2.0 million flight hours per year. Add in 7 other countries and the numbers are staggering. And this is only 1 type of airplane.

The airlines fly about 66,000 hours per day. By the way jet fuel is $4.00 per gallon now.

And we poor car people are picked on and taxed and taxed and taxed.

 

you guys are making my head hurt.