question for pneu-engine

[rancher824]

I have been reading thinking about hydrogen lately. I found this site that is selling instructions for a conversion to a hydrogen-gasoline hybrid basicaly. I have seen you talking about hydrogen and just wanted your oppinion on something like this.
Thanks, Rancher

http://www.runyourcarwithwater.com/?hop=wicks2006

[JerryNumbers]

I recall years ago and a carnival at Texarkana a man had a motor set upon a stand. he demonstrated how this thing he would add to the coil wire woudl help the performance of a motor.

With it off he woudl take one spark plug loose at a time, of course with the 1st spark plug wire removed the engine woudl start missing, he woudl keep pulling spark plug wires off one at a time, the engine would run rougher and rougher till finally it would die.

He woudl add this thing to the coil wire, them do the same thing, even when he pulled off the nest to last spark plug wire, yes with one spark plug wire left on, the V-8 motor woudl just keep running smoothly.

My friend and I watched in amazement, so we bought one. We headed home to try it out, it never did work for us as it did for him, we did try it on both his car and my car, I had a 676 SS 396 Chevelle, he had a 67 SS Chevy 2 with a 327 300 HP motor, but he had our money and that was all he was after. At least in or case we invested in only one of them and were smart enough not to buy one each.

I figure this will work about as good as the little gadget we bough back in the early 70's.

[rancher824]

Yes, that is one thing I am afraid of. I do know (from dad's stories) that my dad's oldest brother had a tractor in the 50's that had what he called a water carburator. Dad says it ran best when it had the water being mixed with the gas. So I get rather confused. I would love to think this would work, and save us some money on the rising prices of gas. But I also do not want to invest money into a product that will not realy work. That money could be invested in tools for my cabinet and cabinet door shop. I guess lots of prayers is the best answer.

[JerryNumbers]

Yes' date=' that is one thing I am afraid of. I do know (from dad's stories) that my dad's oldest brother had a tractor in the 50's that had what he called a water carburator. Dad says it ran best when it had the water being mixed with the gas. So I get rather confused. I would love to think this would work, and save us some money on the rising prices of gas. But I also do not want to invest money into a product that will not realy work. That money could be invested in tools for my cabinet and cabinet door shop. I guess lots of prayers is the best answer.[/quote']

It could be used for buying gas too.

What I fail to understand, why todays cars don't get much better gas mileage.

In the 50's Chevy made a Blue Flame 235 straight 6 that woudl get close to 30 MPH.

In fact this was the 1st engine used in the Corvette.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_ ... engine#235

A 1954 Chevy Belair 4 door sedan with a 3 speed column shift is what I learned to drive.

[rancher824]

I know, Dad talks about a cadilac, in the 50's I believe, getting 25 mpg. I feel very comfident that the motor companies and gas companies have the technology to get much much better milage. They choose not to use it for their own profit. Dad's oldest brother had a friend in the 70's that designed a system that made a small car get close to 100 MPG as a hybrid. I believe it was Ford that bought the pattent. How many of these have we seen for sale???

I did most of my learning to drive in a 1963 chevy belair. That was my first car. But I am several years younger than it was, lol.

[JerryNumbers]

I know, Dad talks about a cadilac, in the 50's I believe, getting 25 mpg. I feel very comfident that the motor companies and gas companies have the technology to get much much better milage. They choose not to use it for their own profit. Dad's oldest brother had a friend in the 70's that designed a system that made a small car get close to 100 MPG as a hybrid. I believe it was Ford that bought the pattent. How many of these have we seen for sale???

I did most of my learning to drive in a 1963 chevy belair. That was my first car. But I am several years younger than it was, lol.

My 2nd car was a 1963 Be Lair 2 Door Hard Top blue and white.

I found some pictures of 63 Chevy's, these two looks much like the one I had.

http://www.1963chevrolet.com/images/gal ... s/pass.jpg

http://www.1963chevrolet.com/images/gal ... ct1253.jpg

My sister had a brand new one like this in 63.

">http://www.1963chevrolet.com/images/gal ... rofile.jpg

[rancher824]

Mine looked a lot like your sisters. It was a white four door belair. Most kids do not want a four door for their first car. I was just as proud as I could be to have it. It had been bought brand new by the father of a lady in the church dad was pastoring when I was about to turn 16. He had passed away several years before we went to the church, but she still had the car. Well it went to giving her a little trouble, so she took it to a mechanic. He would fix one problem and then it would have something else go wrong. It finaly quit on her, and she had it sitting in her drive. She said I could have it for $200.00. I said I wanted it. Dad and I went out to see if we could figure out how to get it back to running. All that was wrong with it was a wire was loose on the points!! Had it running in just a few minutes. We went in and told her it was running and that if she wanted to keep it we understood. She said no that it was mine for the $200.00. Dad drove it home. I did not have my license yet. I ended up having to put an A frame under it, but never had much trouble other than that. It was a wonderful, dependable car. We drove it on a vacation to Tennessee. It might not have been the fanciest car, nor what most kids want. But it was mine and I could afford to pay for it. Would not take for the memories that car gave me.

[JerryNumbers]

My 1st car was a 4 door sedan, but there is a story behind it.

Dad and I went to Texarkana looking for a car, I wanted a 57 Chevy. We found 2 of them, they were on car lots straight across the street from each other. I looked both of them over real good, front to back, top to bottom, under the turtle lid and under the hood, I decided quickly I wanted the 4 door sedan.

I know dad was thinking, finally Jerry is making sense, what I've taught him all these years is showing up while he is buying his 1st car, I know any other boy would have chosen that 2 door hard top hot rod instead of that family type 4 door sedan.

But he did not know that driving back home I setting behind that steering wheel grinning ear to ear, for you see I had got myself a 283 power pack in that 57 Chevy 4 door sedan, if I had gotten the 2 door hard top I would have had just a plain old 283 with a 2 barrel carburetor, that old 57 Chevy 4 door sedan would run a hole in the wind back in 1965. Me and that 57 Chevy had many a good times.

Yes, dad thought I made a wise decsion that day, and I did. :tum

[pneu-engine]

I have been reading thinking about hydrogen lately. I found this site that is selling instructions for a conversion to a hydrogen-gasoline hybrid basicaly. I have seen you talking about hydrogen and just wanted your oppinion on something like this.
Thanks, Rancher

http://www.runyourcarwithwater.com/?hop=wicks2006

I'll PM you. :wink

[IM4given]

My 1st car was a 4 door sedan, but there is a story behind it.

Dad and I went to Texarkana looking for a car, I wanted a 57 Chevy. We found 2 of them, they were on car lots straight across the street from each other. I looked both of them over real good, front to back, top to bottom, under the turtle lid and under the hood, I decided quickly I wanted the 4 door sedan.

I know dad was thinking, finally Jerry is making sense, what I've taught him all these years is showing up while he is buying his 1st car, I know any other boy would have chosen that 2 door hard top hot rod instead of that family type 4 door sedan.

But he did not know that driving back home I setting behind that steering wheel grinning ear to ear, for you see I had got myself a 283 power pack in that 57 Chevy 4 door sedan, if I had gotten the 2 door hard top I would have had just a plain old 283 with a 2 barrel carburetor, that old 57 Chevy 4 door sedan would run a hole in the wind back in 1965. Me and that 57 Chevy had many a good times.

Yes, dad thought I made a wise decsion that day, and I did. :tum

That was back in the good ole days when gasoline was 25 cents a gallon and they highways had TWO speed limits (a minimum and a maximum) and cars did not crumple whenever you had a fender bender! :coffee

[JerryNumbers]

That was back in the good ole days when gasoline was 25 cents a gallon and they highways had TWO speed limits (a minimum and a maximum) and cars did not crumple whenever you had a fender bender! :coffee

That's true, but back them most cars were worn out before they got 100,000 miles on them, now days we have many that have 100,000 miles on them still going strong. I think at least 3 things contribute to that, unleaded gas, better oil, and better roads to drive on.

Our 2002 Jeep Cherokee has never had a wrench on it and its got more than 80,00 miles.

I might add, we have put one set of tires on it, you know back in the good old days a set of tires were doing right good to last 18,000 miles, now its not uncommon for them to go 50,000 miles.

Back in the good old days a set of brakes would not last 80,000 miles, maybe 3 or 4 sets of them.

And in the good old days you would have already lost count of the number of points and plug you had put in your car by the time it had 80,000 miles on it.

Seems to with the coming of steel belted radial tires the number of flats we have has gone way down.

One thing that seems not to have improved is the gas mileage.