Ford's 1st Flex Fuel Car: the Model "T" w/ David Blume
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Two words to explain world wide oil dependency: BIG MONEY
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@bandit4423 Normal engines have been ran on alcohol with the same results, only over a period of about a week, that what I was getting at.
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are you comparing a drag racing engine to a regular commuting engine? hmm... I think you should have stopped when you were ahead. Which was about 4 posts ago.
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Wait, so how would changing the air / fuel intake valve differ from changing the timing of the spark?
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@pipbuster THATS COOL
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@liljgoneman Also no matter how good the timing is the engine will always run rough because alcohol fires depending on the mixture and usually it's not mixed very well. Aka backfires.
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@liljgoneman Not really. Have you seen a Alcohol dragster cylinder? See how scorched and deformed it is after a few runs? yea...
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Ever been in the pits at an NHRA event? Behind an alcohol dragster when they warm it up? feels like someones rubbing onion in your eyes. Now, lets do the same thing in a traffic jam with ALL the cars burning alcohol..... Still sound like a good idea?
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@MrTpengineer I think thats a blanket statement to hide poor tuning abilities.
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The first Ford's, from what I understand, ran on Hemp Fuel.... The many uses of Hemp!
Most farms had their own stills and all of their farm equipment ran on alcohol. People could go from farm to farm and fill up on alcohol. Next you'll be telling us that gasoline is better for the automobile than alcohol. We could have been off of foreign oil years ago. Brazil is a great example of not depending on any oil. They import NO OIL.
darkvader47 2 years ago 9
Regardless of whether the original Model T was specifically designed to run on alcohol or not, in TODAY's world, the 5th largest country (Brazil) is running their country on "sustainable" alcohol and IMPORTING NO OIL
pipbuster 2 years ago 4