Hickory
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This is a similar system to what I have done
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Tons of people have got over 100 mpg in the past playing with carburation. There is a greed and money aspect to this and big company interference. And of course a performance want from the general public. There is a small performance drop to achieve the great fuel mileage. But my recent dream of using a super charger as a check valve for safety would also increase performance and efficiency.
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Read the story and the car. It was a 29 imperial.
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One of the original designs was the pogue design.
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So back in 1990 we built one on a 78 Chevy Silverado and got 65 mpg on that old pig. We also had a fire causing me to dump the system. But last night I was thinking about the backfire issues and how people are putting half assed check valves in their homemade systems. I think I came up with a whole new system in my head. Cold starts and backfires are an issue that can be rectified by using a screw style blower. This has me dreaming again about fitting another system to a flathead with a small blower.
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Sniper is correct, the first vapor carb set-up I had included heating the gas using a heater core. You use a pool of gas and draw intake air across the top of it. Burning just fumes a car gets unbelievable fuel mileage but runs cleaned and more efficient. Less carbon build up ect. The trade off is dangerous fuel fumes are flammable and a backfire becomes a bomb.
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Has anyone besides myself played with vapor carburation. I think our old cars are prime candidate's
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There is black between all cylinders, I would check the straightness of block and head. Then make sure the retorque procedure is done after assembly and heat cycles. It looks like it wasn't retorque to me. See it wasn't to hard.
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1949 Plymouth SD goes *blaaaaah* when accelerating
Hickory replied to Oliver Klozoff's topic in P15-D24 Forum
Good point and since it's the wrong carb make sure the intake has the cutout for the vacuum source -
My favorite memories was driving off the road to pass convoys and the desert land being as smooth as the road
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So for the deadline I had car was at the Nationals and drove around. I did not drive it to the show just all over the fairgrounds. I should be able to drive it to the Longley dodge show aug 5th
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Over 8000 cars, 88000 in attendance I think it did rather well
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I did that too. Thanks for the clarification. I once lived in Clovis New Mexico and know all about the dust and tumbleweed.?
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Since I had to figure out most of this on my own(with no info out there) can I mark all of my posts as solutions and rise my rankings ?
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I took my 180 tstat and gutted it and reinstalled it. Water now flows good. Temps are more even. 180 at water outlet and 200 at the back of the engine. Im going to leave it like this till break-in is done.
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Ok so I'm still struggling with the temps. I did put a 160 tstat in it. I know that's not a fix. I checked the water pump design and I have come to the conclusion that it only circulates with the thermostat open. No water bypass and the water only goes to the center of the centrifugal pump vane from the lower rad hose. The rest of the water sets outside the paddle wheel as I call it. What's your thoughts.
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My car was there also. I didn't get many pics due to phone issues. Here is a selfie.
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Last summer I removed the radiator and flushed from both ends for about 2 hours, that's after running flush through the system for 4 hours. Water was clean and flowed right out. I may do it again in a month or so.
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I'm not liking my temp reading. So the block is clean as a whistle and the rad flows good. I have a 180 thermostat with a small hole drilled in it to circulate. The water pump physically looks fine. The temps are taken with my thermo imager. 230 at the rear, 220 in the middle, 190 at the front. 180 at the thermostat housing and hose to the radiator. 150 at the radiator core. The water pump is a straight vain pump with no water bypass or heater hoses (no heater), I feel there is not enough flow. There is no water distribution tube or nothing like that. It's a primitive design and trying to think of a way to improve it.aybe 160 tstat with a small hole drilled in it?
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Car runs. Have a leak of course. My upper water outlet tube somehow cracked during I stall and I didn't see it.
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How do I do a video
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Man the 6v starter is struggling with the tightness of this engine. Would hooking 12v ruin my generator
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Man the 6v starter is struggling with the tightness of this engine.
