[Land-speed] Odd car related stuff...

[neil at dbelltech.com]

Mayf;

Sorry to burst the balloon but I couldn't help myself. :)

As far as the car is going, it is dead slow (the progress, not the car). 

I've been occupied with a few other things recently-- we just installed a
"water harvesting" system to capture & store rainwater that runs off the
house & workshop roofs. The two tanks hold 1000 gallons apiece so it should
help water our trees and plants in the summer.

Another thing that I've needed to do for some time is to go through a lot of
boxes and inventory what is in them. Now I have labels on the outside of the
boxes so I know what is in them. I've found stuff that I'd forgotten about
and some other stuff that was pure junk-- I wonder why I saved it.

Another project was to finally buy an air compressor. I bought a vertical
two- cylinder 60 gal Campbell- Hausfeld at Home Depot for $399 which seemed
to be a good deal-- cast iron cylinders, oil lubricated, 220V, etc. I have
it plumbed up in my workshop now so I can use all those surplus aircraft &
Harbor Freight air tools that I've accumulated over the past few years.

Regards, Neil   Tucson, AZ

-----Original Message-----
From: drmayf [mailto:drmayf at mayfco.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:52 PM
To: neil at dbelltech.com
Cc: 'Bryan Savage'; 'LSR'
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Odd car related stuff...

Oh, man... you have crushed me and my beliefs and dreams........ is 
there any need for me to continue in this life...well Hell yeah!    Of 
course, you taped the cow magnet to the fuel line with the correct pole 
against the line and  the other one at right angle to the line (ie 
perpendicular to the line)?  I am dismayed that the beanie propeller 
under the carb doesn't help.   But I am EFI anyway, lol  So what about 
those "vortec" generator doohickeys they place under throttle bodies?  
They seem to work or do they? I have no data.  On the 200 mpg carb, no, 
I am sure you are wrong. Wrong I say, and say again, YOU are wrong 
(hysterically)....

how is your car building coming along?

Mayf


neil at dbelltech.com wrote:

>Mayf;
>
>I think it's a case of someone reinventing the internal gap spark plug.
>Spark plugs seem to be an area where miracle "breakthroughs" are claimed
>with monotonous regularity. And while I'm at it:
>
>1. A cow magnet taped to a gas line doesn't do anything.
>
>2. A little spinning propeller mounted underneath a carburetor doesn't
>provide supercharging.
>
>3. There is no secret 200mpg carburetor that "big oil" has kept off the
>market.
>
>:)
>
>Regards, Neil   Tucson, AZ
>
>
>
>
>drmayf wrote:
>  
>
>>Have any of you looked at these doohickeys? I wonder..   
>>http://www.pulstarplug.com/howtheywork.html 
>><http://www.pulstarplug.com/howtheywork.html>
>>
>>Also, my latest Harbor Freight has leakdown testers at $29.99. 
>>Undoubtedly not legacy tools but probably good enough to toss onti the 
>>race trailer for salt use.
>>"US General item number 94190-3AXH" catalog 161-c winter 2008.
>>
>>mayf