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Hi DavidV,
I've got two of your books on Horsepower Vol. I & II. My thinking since I was about 14 or 16 was that the intake tract was one of THE most important areas to modify in making horsepower... and also mpg.
One book I have is called "Secrets of the 200 MPG Carburetor". In there an obvious drawing sticks in my head. It shows a carburetor on an intake pipe stuffed with ...steel wool of sorts, a distance to the intake manifold then the engine. This is one of THE most important things to observe. You have to heat the fuel to bring it closer to a vaporizing temp, screen it to break up the fuel droplets, then give is "time" to mix with the incoming air. "Time" = "Distance". "Distance" = longer Intake Runners. Longer Intake Runner = More "Torque". More "Torque" = an engine that doesn't have to work as hard to more the car.
One of Charles Nelson Pogue's carburetors was installed in a car up in Winnepeg, Alberta in the winter. He ran it there and said it had no less power and maybe a bit more. His carburetor heated the fuel and the engine would only suck the vapors. Any liquid left would stay in the bottom on the carb til it turned to vapor. If we do this now we will end up with sludge plugging up the system with todays crapoline.
BMac
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