Hi Mike:
It's pretty easy to see a 200 mpg carburetor; just drive a moped sedately on
the flat and you should manage quite nicely. :^)
Of course, people seem to talk about this 200 mpg thing as being a bolt-on for
an existing car, typically some old V-8. OK, say you get 25 mpg with a fairly
effective setup on a 3500 lb. car. The numbers I have seen on the internal
combustion engine all put the setup at about 20% efficiency. So if 25 mpg is
20% efficiency then to get 200 mpg you only have to get 160% efficiency out of
your carburetor without changing anything else. I'm sure that can't be too hard
can it? We should all forget perpetual motion and strive for perpetual
acceleration instead.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of michael lunsford
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 1:55 PM
To: 6pack@autox.team.net
Subject: 200 MPG Carburetor
The last digest posting (see below) had a posting about a friend who knew
someone who saw a real live 200 MPG carb. I hope this is a joke though it
sounds more like the stories you hear about those investment scams.
Personally, I'll believe it when I see it. I expect to see the perpetual
motion machine at about the same time.
Mike Lunsford, 1970 TR6 (28 MPG with OD on a trip)
<I have a friend, Don Smith, of Regina, Sask., who told me about a
carburetor
he had on a car when he was a youngster in Ontario. It was built by a
local
garage mechanic, and gave him fantastic mileage. He was later called
and
was told to bring his car to the garage, where the carburetor was
removed,
shortly after the mechanic sold the rights to the carburetor design to
someone. I should try to get more information from him soon as he is
now
suffering from early stages of Altzheimer's disease.>
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