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Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuel
Hi,
Apparently I haven't following this thread close enough. On the topic
of ethanol, I have seen much said on the list about the mechanical spark
advance. In comparing the optimal ignition advance curves, for gasoline and
ethanol, are they parallel enough so, only the change in the static
Dear Jonanthan,
If you want to avoid major engine modification to
convert your car to ethanol, preheating teh fuel
is certainly one easy path to take. However, you
still have to deal with changing the air/fuel
mixture ratio. I have run three of my own cars (a
'67 Chevy truck, an '88 Ford Courier,
Smokey yunick had a engine (iron duke 4 cyl) that he heated the fuel, first
with coolant, then with exhaust, and compressed with a turbo, that extracted
large amounts of horsepower, with good mileage. it was too complicated to
mass produce.
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Steve Spence
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