Diesel exhausts do cause cancer, says WHO

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by Osprey

Being a musician in a rock band Bliss I know a reasonable amount about sound, certainly more than your average Joe does and if you had enough windows you would block it out, even base, but I'd doubt it's worth the effort. The point I was making was that you live in a society and you make a contribution to that and what goes around comes around. If everybody was nicer to each other then perhaps you wouldn't be blasted by bass and feel the need to have a pop back.

20mpg is absolute crap. My diesel gets averages 50mpg, which is still not enough for my liking. Try a smaller engine, you can get just as many speeding tickets with it.

I understand the music thing as well. I dabble a bit with my guitars.

I use the truck to pull/haul anything from my race car to farm equipment. 10-30k pounds. You're not gonna do that with a car. But 20mpg for the size and weight is really good. I understand karma. Trust me, I'm never the instigator.

Originally Posted by SlipBall

Don't waste you time Bliss...are you a fellow member?
http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/index.php

I probably am. I think that's where I found out the wiring to install the 2011 f150 mirrors on the 04-08's. I have an 06 fx4 as well (f150) and can finally see like in 250. No blind spots! If you have an f150 it's the best thing you could ever do. 154 a piece from taska (heated,power, turn indicator, puddle light, extending and folding.

I mainly frequent the coral as I'm a huge mustang nut. Gotta a twin turbo sn95 with 2600RWHP that's almost done, amongst a few other street cars. I just enjoy building them, working with my hands etc.

Edit: here's the link. Best investment ever http://www.f150online.com/forums/200...s-finally.html

[swiss]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

Gotta a twin turbo sn95 with 2600RWHP that's almost done,[.]

That's a typo, right?

[swiss]

Bliss and Be: You should discuss kWh, not $ or euros. Energy prices tend vary...

Combustion engines are extremely inefficient, not matter what recycling construction you put around that.

true, any alternatives?

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by swiss

That's a typo, right?

No typo - just need to finish some of the turbo piping, induction, and some of the wiring.

(warning - I'm posting a picture of my car on the internet. My trumpets are blazing!)

[Sven]

That's one hell of a race car you have there Bliss. I still fool around with 2 stroke engines

[JG52Krupi]

Hey Hasselhoff when are you going to paint it black and install KITT?

[swiss]

cute lil' turbos...



I'm soooo looking foward to a dyno vid.

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by Sven

That's one hell of a race car you have there Bliss. I still fool around with 2 stroke engines

Well I'm just an idiot and dump all my money into these things lol.

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

Hey Hasselhoff when are you going to paint it black and install KITT?

I actually just bought a black one and it's running! I usually don't do that but I got one hell of a deal. It's actually getting loaded up on transport tomorrow to ship to me. 5 day ship



Not quite KITT, but it's an anderson PMS (programmable on the fly, your own tunes, fuel curves, timings etc)



Here's an old video after the original owner just got the engine/car together. It's not tuned, obviously running very rich etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPpvN_DkItI

Originally Posted by swiss

cute lil' turbos...



I'm soooo looking foward to a dyno vid.

I'm gonna do a video of going through the drive through with it. I fully intend to drive it on the street a bit

[Osprey]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

I use the truck to pull/haul anything from my race car to farm equipment. 10-30k pounds. You're not gonna do that with a car. But 20mpg for the size and weight is really good. I understand karma. Trust me, I'm never the instigator.

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Over here we leave that for the truckers and farmers

In fact you should be cheering for alternatives. Sounds like you need torque and no motor produces more torque than electric - way way more than diesel. You know those big diesel locomotives for pulling freight? The engine only drives a generator and not the wheels. That 'leccy gets piped straight to multiple motors on the wheels, and no gearing.

Many of the electric cars now are using this approach, batteries supplemented by small petrol motors generating electricity by running at their best power when required. Never driven one but it apparently sounds weird accelerating with the rpm constant.

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by Osprey

Over here we leave that for the truckers and farmers

In fact you should be cheering for alternatives. Sounds like you need torque and no motor produces more torque than electric - way way more than diesel. You know those big diesel locomotives for pulling freight? The engine only drives a generator and not the wheels. That 'leccy gets piped straight to multiple motors on the wheels, and no gearing.

Many of the electric cars now are using this approach, batteries supplemented by small petrol motors generating electricity by running at their best power when required. Never driven one but it apparently sounds weird accelerating with the rpm constant.

My family has been farming for generations. We're what you call the midwest corn/soybean producers.

I don't understand how you would hire a trucker to move your car though? I'm sure there's gotta be race teams in Europe that surely own their own tow equipment? It wouldn't exactly be cost effective to call up said trucker and say "load up all these tools, spare parts, get the car ready" and then drive (depending on where the race is) 200-2500mi and then have him sit there all weekend long while you qualify, race, possibly get tore down, etc.

Every single drag racer I know owns some sort of truck and trailer to haul to the race. Some guys have 18 wheelers. Some have enclosed trailers they pull with the diesels (what I do) and some guys have open trailers they pull with a lighter gas truck.

As far as electrical power, the majority of it is still being made by the burning of fossil fuels. It doesn't matter if it's in the form of a battery, capacitor, or alternate current. You're not saving much. Obviously the trains need the huge gear reduction motors or they couldn't pull themselves. There's many smaller applications for this on many modern cars today. Fly by wire throttle bodies have an electric reduction motor (direct current) and my diesel for instance has the VGT controlled by the same principle. But you're not going to get that setup in a car anytime soon. We're still in the maximize profits in the shortest amount of time stage.

I'm well aware we are going to run out of oil, but when you have businesses that fill tankers up with milk in china to ship it have way across the world just so that said business can undercut a dairy in the same country by 10c a gallon, in other words, wasting more fossil fuels in one trip than I could possible burn for 20 years, there's not much you or I is going to do about it.

I'm not about to stop my joy, because I extended the end of oil production by 0.00003 seconds.