Why Older Cars Save Gas More For Less

Save your father's old jalopy! Yes that old well-used, smoke-belching, slow, still reliable and partly rusting heap! This article discusses ways and means to lengthen the usable life of vehicles ten years and over.

Before the advent of EFI or electronic fuel injection technology in the 1980's, there were only mechanical solutions to properly disperse gas and evenly mix it with air in a car's combustion chamber. You can practically take a wrench and screwdriver to the car to fix it. That's the great advantage of old cars. It has fewer "hidden" problems created by modern day electronic systems.

A dead giveaway that a car is older than the 1990's is when the car still makes use of a carburetor to run manage fuel.

Carburetors work following Bernoulli's principle. This principle when used particularly in carbureted internal combustion engines means that fuel is mechanically drawn from the gas tank using air pressure differentials within the carburetor and, at the same time this pressure makes it possible to create a fine spray to mix with air into the combustion chamber. This creates an ideal circumstance for air-fuel mixture to be ignited to create as much energy to drive the pistons in the engine.

On top of the carburetor is the choke. The choke's function is to keep air from entering the carburetor during startup. Gas has a tendency to condense on the wall of the combustion chamber during cold starts, therefore starving the ignition cycle. Using the choke makes the air-fuel mix much richer, enabling the engine to have a better chance of starting up.

At the bottom of the carburetor, you'll find the throttle. The throttle's function is to regulate the amount of air-fuel mix that enters the combustion chamber. It does this by using a butterfly valve to control the strength of the vacuum. The more open the throttle is, the stronger the vacuum that sucks fuel and air into the combustion chamber, creating power.

Idle Speed Screw. When an engine is idling, ever wonder why it doesn't die when you take your foot off the pedal? This is because the idle speed screw keeps the throttle from completely closing. You can adjust this to determine how much power the engine gets during idle.

Idle Mixture Screw. Turn this to determine the proportion of air and fuel mix that goes into the engine during idle.

Regularly change oil. Use synthetic oils in the engine as per manufacturer instructions to remove impurities and carbon deposits in the engine.

Inspect and change tires. Switch or change tires when necessary. Maintain ideal pressure as per manufacturer instructions. Make sure tires all aligned.

Use quality spark plugs. Make sure your spark plugs are good and requires less energy to ignite the fuel.

Remove unnecessities. Take off the car items which adds to the weight of the car, using more fuel to generate forward motion.

Consider alternative fuels. You can use alternate fuels such as a hydrogen-on-demand (HOD) system to supplement the air-fuel mix. This system creates hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) gas on demand from a water medium to mix with the air and fuel in the combustion chamber for better performance.

With an HOD system, you can adjust the engine to run on an even leaner air-fuel mix than the standard "stochiometric" air-fuel balance of 14.7:1 to even levels of 50:1 and 100:1. This translates into big saving as the engine uses less gas per combustion cycle to power forward movement.

Hydrogen when compressed and introduced to an internal combustion engine: -Releases more energy than ethanol-based mixes, maintaining the overall power of the car -Completely burns the fuel which gives cleaner emissions -Raises the octane level of the fuel, preventing knocking, making the engine quieter -Lowers overall engine temperature slightly -Requires the engine to use less gas per cycle -Mileage gains as low as 20% to as high as 70% on the average due to less fuel required by the engine

Is it safe?

HOD systems generate hydrogen only on demand and are therefore safe. When no electricity is routed through the HOD system, no reaction is generated. No hydrogen is in storage in this system but is kept in medium, which is basically water.

Cost?

Parts are sourced from everyday parts found in hardware shops and basic electronics stores. Total cost for a basic unit can range between $70 to over $200 USD.

What's offered by most HOD enterprises are plans for do-it-yourself systems, with offers to build the system for the consumer if they so wish. This way the customer can opt to build it himself or to buy a unit once the concept is understood after obtaining the plans to prevent fraud.

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