I remember standing on the porch many
years ago and the wind was blowing rain through the screen. I did't feel rain drops
only was wet by a very fine mist..There was an updraft carb that broke up the drops of gas
passing over a cone that was rough like course sand paper. There have been screen
gaskets that were patented 70 years ago by racers. Some have been made and sold up until
the E.P.A said they didn't reduce pollution enough and publications said they did't save
gas. Don't try to tell that to the people I installed my own hand made units in 1974.
I charged $10 - $15 and the results
were more power , gas mileage increased 22%+ and when I bought a infared analyzer I found
the pollution was reduced 97% or more the needle hardly left the peg. The E.P.A. said a
factory made unit only reduced the pollution 84%. Maybe a million units ended up in
land fill without a market. They sold for $20 to $30. The "RUBE
GOLDBERG" junk they O.K.d like air pumps and cat-converts cost Hundreds of
dollars and only started reducing pollution about 25%.----
I had one or two cars I worked on got
more mileage when we added an air injector in the pvc line which leaned it some. Let me
explain it this way. Drops of gas and a block of ice are alike in one way. Ice only melts
on the surface. Gas does not burn only the vapor. Gas vaporizes like ice melts,only on the
surface. When you engine is cold you "choke" it The big drops of gas
vaporize slow and as the engine warms up the drops get broken smaller and provide more
surface and as the vapor increases the choke changes to let in more air. So if you break
up the gas more than usual you would either need more air or less gas. If and when the gas
can be almost totaly a vapor you would have the making of a hundred plus miles per
gallon with a full sized car.
When I see the cars in Calif. being
crushed because they were polluters and knowing they could have had a long life at a cost
of less than $35 it is a crine. These cars will be wanted in a few years to restore but
they are now scrap.
The worst of
this is it has been all because of greed. First the Oil Companies wanting more and more.
When cars first began gas was a by-product. More care more demand for gas and oil. But,
gas was under price control for many years and they had tried to get the price up and
after many shortage scares it did't work. In 1939 they found a way to get more gas per
barrel than ever before. That was in Michigan and we changed gas suppliers then and
got gas from there at a lower price. When the war started they had a big sale for gas and
oil. gas , rationing came about not because of a gas shortage but because we had to save
our tires and that is why the speed limit was 35 mph.
After the war it still was hard to get tires for some time except seconds as the auto
builders got first choice. As the years got on there were some smaller cars and better
mileage even on the larger ones. The oil companies had to stop that and they stil wanted
to get away from price controy. They had claimed shortage and went to the mid east
countries and drilled for oil. They found so much oil they only turned in 1 of 10 wells.
They used Arab oil because their old wells could not be sold for the newer prices.
In 1973 they were talking of shortage again but where gas was 32 cents I got it for 19
cents in St Pete and Tampa. I am sure it didn' take much to get Opec to embargo gas
to us. There were loaded tankers in the gulf. They could not deliver because the supply
tanks in Tampa bay were full even tho they claimed we couldn't get gas because they were
"empty". The oil companies got the price control busted and put Auto makers in a
tight bind as big cars wern't selling and some almost went out of bussines. They don't
dare do what they could because big oil could shut them down again.
Most of the power and mileage could be fixed Much of it being only changing the
shape of manifolds.They sell bigger motors for more power yet race cars
greatly increase power with free flowing headers. Stock manifolds chocks power and
mileage. I will add pages to this as soon as I can with more detail--I predict oil co.
will use y2k to raise prices again..
Fred Shiley - [email protected] - or [email protected]
