Re: Novak has pulled their heads out-a little
"Bret Ludwig" <bretldwig@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1173377479.434458.313040@h3g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com... > On Mar 8, 11:57 am, "Earle Horton" <a...@gracioso.usa> wrote: > > "Bret Ludwig" <bretld...@yahoo.com> wrote in message > > > > news:1173342238.770768.70000@t69g2000cwt.googlegro ups.com... > > ...> Most diesels are made so they can have the sump in the front or in > > > the back and sometimes the middle because they are made for a variety > > > of uses. MBZ insists on putting huge bag sumps on the front. They are > > > the exception. Adapterwise they are not that difficult since every > > > manner of car and light truck was sold somewhere with the more common > > > diesel engines. I don't believe in adapting alien bellhousings to > > > transmissions and prefer the scattershield approach. > > > > How's the Deutz Wrangler with oil-cooled cab heater coming? People > > really want to know. > > > Well, I've decided it's not going into a Wrangler. I've got something > different planned, and the engine is mostly together. But using the > oil cooler for cab heat is not a good idea: I bought a Webasto diesel > fuel burning heater from a truck junkyard that will put out colossal > heat on a quart of fuel an hour. > "Something different planned", uh, huh. A fuel burning cab heater is OK if you pay attention to maintenance. Mechanics that can rebuild an engine or an automatic transmission get all thumbs when faced with one. Earle |
Re: Novak has pulled their heads out-a little
"Bret Ludwig" <bretldwig@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1173377229.965392.307120@q40g2000cwq.googlegr oups.com... > On Mar 8, 11:08 am, "Earle Horton" <a...@gracioso.usa> wrote: > > Bio diesel sounds great on paper but it competes with food and worse, > > beer. Maybe if food were more expensive it would help the obesity > > "epidemic" in this country. > > > We have a lot of farmland not in production because the government > pays for its nonuse. Else farmers would overproduce. Biofuels will > probably raise commodity prices a little, but the price you pay at the > supermarket is not going to be much affected. I expect hemp will be > put back once they develop a version which looks different than the > THC producing kind so the booze lobby does not stop it. > Biofuels also compete with food production for petroleum... Earle |
Re: Novak has pulled their heads out-a little
"Bret Ludwig" <bretldwig@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1173377229.965392.307120@q40g2000cwq.googlegr oups.com... > On Mar 8, 11:08 am, "Earle Horton" <a...@gracioso.usa> wrote: > > Bio diesel sounds great on paper but it competes with food and worse, > > beer. Maybe if food were more expensive it would help the obesity > > "epidemic" in this country. > > > We have a lot of farmland not in production because the government > pays for its nonuse. Else farmers would overproduce. Biofuels will > probably raise commodity prices a little, but the price you pay at the > supermarket is not going to be much affected. I expect hemp will be > put back once they develop a version which looks different than the > THC producing kind so the booze lobby does not stop it. > Biofuels also compete with food production for petroleum... Earle |
Re: Novak has pulled their heads out-a little
"Bret Ludwig" <bretldwig@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1173377229.965392.307120@q40g2000cwq.googlegr oups.com... > On Mar 8, 11:08 am, "Earle Horton" <a...@gracioso.usa> wrote: > > Bio diesel sounds great on paper but it competes with food and worse, > > beer. Maybe if food were more expensive it would help the obesity > > "epidemic" in this country. > > > We have a lot of farmland not in production because the government > pays for its nonuse. Else farmers would overproduce. Biofuels will > probably raise commodity prices a little, but the price you pay at the > supermarket is not going to be much affected. I expect hemp will be > put back once they develop a version which looks different than the > THC producing kind so the booze lobby does not stop it. > Biofuels also compete with food production for petroleum... Earle |
Re: Novak has pulled their heads out-a little
Apparently, we are down to 15 ppm in the States now. You fellows will catch
up soon, maybe. As far as I know, you can't get a "race car or an experimental aircraft" engine into a road vehicle, unless of course you live in the boonies like where I live. I guess with the train belching coal fire smoke all summer long no one would notice. Earle "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:45f05984$0$3969$9a6e19ea@unlimited.newshostin g.com... > Wow, so now you are saying it is cool to import a stinkpot and run it > with all the pollution stuff taken off. > > So it would appear you actually like the black smoke belching stink pots > that can't pass real pollution controls... > > Have you ever had the misfortune to be behind one running our high > sulfur fuel? It is an 'experience' hard to describe.... > > Mike > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's > Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view! > Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590 > (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page) > > Bret Ludwig wrote: > > On Mar 8, 9:05 am, Lon <lon.stow...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Our USofA has decreed that sulfur must be removed as of mumble mumble so > >> those new urea injecting style diesels can run on it. Rumor is that > >> benz may be making some much bigger diesels available soon now--possibly > >> to stay in competition with the big V-10s available from the VW group. > > > > It's easy to get all the common rail engines over here-junkyards over > > there will crate them up complete with ECM and harnesses. And if you > > get rid of the catalysts, particulate traps and EGR they will burn > > regular fuel. The EPA has nothing to say about it if you tell them > > it's for a race car or an experimental aircraft at Customs. EPA is > > prohibited from messing with those. If you are going into an older > > chassis, KKKalifornia can be stumped if the engine is a "Service > > Replacement Block" engine. Which since Euro engines do not have a US > > format VIN they all are. You just have to be smarter than the average > > bear. > > > >> If you really want high rpm torque, put in a diesel-electric where the > >> electric motors have max torque at stall. And put one in for each > >> wheel. Or put in a turbine which can generate enough torque to ruin > >> the bearings on an Indy Racer. > > > > > > That's a myth that has persisted forty years now! The four wheel > > drive STP racer (which took the pole on a junk unairworthy engine PWC > > gave Granatelli to shut him up) broke bearings because of exceedingly > > poor chassis design, NOT because of the mighty torque of the PT6A. > > They refused to put U-joints at the transfer case. > > > > I am kind of surprised that with all the junk unairworthy Allison and > > Lycoming helo engines floating on the surplus market we haven't seen > > more in off road recreational use. > > |
Re: Novak has pulled their heads out-a little
Apparently, we are down to 15 ppm in the States now. You fellows will catch
up soon, maybe. As far as I know, you can't get a "race car or an experimental aircraft" engine into a road vehicle, unless of course you live in the boonies like where I live. I guess with the train belching coal fire smoke all summer long no one would notice. Earle "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:45f05984$0$3969$9a6e19ea@unlimited.newshostin g.com... > Wow, so now you are saying it is cool to import a stinkpot and run it > with all the pollution stuff taken off. > > So it would appear you actually like the black smoke belching stink pots > that can't pass real pollution controls... > > Have you ever had the misfortune to be behind one running our high > sulfur fuel? It is an 'experience' hard to describe.... > > Mike > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's > Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view! > Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590 > (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page) > > Bret Ludwig wrote: > > On Mar 8, 9:05 am, Lon <lon.stow...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Our USofA has decreed that sulfur must be removed as of mumble mumble so > >> those new urea injecting style diesels can run on it. Rumor is that > >> benz may be making some much bigger diesels available soon now--possibly > >> to stay in competition with the big V-10s available from the VW group. > > > > It's easy to get all the common rail engines over here-junkyards over > > there will crate them up complete with ECM and harnesses. And if you > > get rid of the catalysts, particulate traps and EGR they will burn > > regular fuel. The EPA has nothing to say about it if you tell them > > it's for a race car or an experimental aircraft at Customs. EPA is > > prohibited from messing with those. If you are going into an older > > chassis, KKKalifornia can be stumped if the engine is a "Service > > Replacement Block" engine. Which since Euro engines do not have a US > > format VIN they all are. You just have to be smarter than the average > > bear. > > > >> If you really want high rpm torque, put in a diesel-electric where the > >> electric motors have max torque at stall. And put one in for each > >> wheel. Or put in a turbine which can generate enough torque to ruin > >> the bearings on an Indy Racer. > > > > > > That's a myth that has persisted forty years now! The four wheel > > drive STP racer (which took the pole on a junk unairworthy engine PWC > > gave Granatelli to shut him up) broke bearings because of exceedingly > > poor chassis design, NOT because of the mighty torque of the PT6A. > > They refused to put U-joints at the transfer case. > > > > I am kind of surprised that with all the junk unairworthy Allison and > > Lycoming helo engines floating on the surplus market we haven't seen > > more in off road recreational use. > > |
Re: Novak has pulled their heads out-a little
Apparently, we are down to 15 ppm in the States now. You fellows will catch
up soon, maybe. As far as I know, you can't get a "race car or an experimental aircraft" engine into a road vehicle, unless of course you live in the boonies like where I live. I guess with the train belching coal fire smoke all summer long no one would notice. Earle "Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:45f05984$0$3969$9a6e19ea@unlimited.newshostin g.com... > Wow, so now you are saying it is cool to import a stinkpot and run it > with all the pollution stuff taken off. > > So it would appear you actually like the black smoke belching stink pots > that can't pass real pollution controls... > > Have you ever had the misfortune to be behind one running our high > sulfur fuel? It is an 'experience' hard to describe.... > > Mike > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's > Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view! > Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590 > (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page) > > Bret Ludwig wrote: > > On Mar 8, 9:05 am, Lon <lon.stow...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Our USofA has decreed that sulfur must be removed as of mumble mumble so > >> those new urea injecting style diesels can run on it. Rumor is that > >> benz may be making some much bigger diesels available soon now--possibly > >> to stay in competition with the big V-10s available from the VW group. > > > > It's easy to get all the common rail engines over here-junkyards over > > there will crate them up complete with ECM and harnesses. And if you > > get rid of the catalysts, particulate traps and EGR they will burn > > regular fuel. The EPA has nothing to say about it if you tell them > > it's for a race car or an experimental aircraft at Customs. EPA is > > prohibited from messing with those. If you are going into an older > > chassis, KKKalifornia can be stumped if the engine is a "Service > > Replacement Block" engine. Which since Euro engines do not have a US > > format VIN they all are. You just have to be smarter than the average > > bear. > > > >> If you really want high rpm torque, put in a diesel-electric where the > >> electric motors have max torque at stall. And put one in for each > >> wheel. Or put in a turbine which can generate enough torque to ruin > >> the bearings on an Indy Racer. > > > > > > That's a myth that has persisted forty years now! The four wheel > > drive STP racer (which took the pole on a junk unairworthy engine PWC > > gave Granatelli to shut him up) broke bearings because of exceedingly > > poor chassis design, NOT because of the mighty torque of the PT6A. > > They refused to put U-joints at the transfer case. > > > > I am kind of surprised that with all the junk unairworthy Allison and > > Lycoming helo engines floating on the surplus market we haven't seen > > more in off road recreational use. > > |
Re: Novak has pulled their heads out-a little
At least we can burn firewood to keep warm.
God Bless America, Bill 0|||||||0 mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/ "Earle Horton" <apodo@gracioso.usa> wrote in message news:2I6dnR-Z5dNt6HLYnZ2dnUVZ_qSrnZ2d@comcast.com... > I have been there. You can see the mountains, but when you are coming down > into the valley from the mountains you can see that something is different > down there, just like you can with Denver. I may have exaggerated a little > bit. The tourist from L.A. only had to take a couple of breaths from the > bus exhaust to clear his head. > > ;^) > > Earle > > "L.W. (Bill) ------ III" <----------@cox.net> wrote in message > news:45ef50b1$0$16387$88260bb3@free.teranews.com.. . > > Hi Earle, > > You know that hasn't been true in twenty years, we can see the > > mountains, now. > > God Bless America, Bill 0|||||||0 > > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/ > > > > "Earle Horton" <apodo@gracioso.usa> wrote in message > > news:87udnaUsw8E213LYnZ2dnUVZ_sapnZ2d@comcast.com. .. > > > We have low sulfur road fuel in the U.S. now. I don't know how "low" it > > is. > > > I rented a diesel Golf in Spain last year, and you can smell the > > difference > > > between that and a gasoline car. I don't know what it would be like > with > > a > > > whole city full of them. They don't even have that in Europe. One > night > > in > > > the bus station in Burgos, I was talking to a fellow tourist from L.A. > who > > > was having difficulty breathing. I thought I was going to have to call > > the > > > ambulancia, but he stuck his face down by the bus exhausts for a few > > > minutes. "There, that's better", he said. > > > > > > Earle > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > > > > -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
Re: Novak has pulled their heads out-a little
At least we can burn firewood to keep warm.
God Bless America, Bill 0|||||||0 mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/ "Earle Horton" <apodo@gracioso.usa> wrote in message news:2I6dnR-Z5dNt6HLYnZ2dnUVZ_qSrnZ2d@comcast.com... > I have been there. You can see the mountains, but when you are coming down > into the valley from the mountains you can see that something is different > down there, just like you can with Denver. I may have exaggerated a little > bit. The tourist from L.A. only had to take a couple of breaths from the > bus exhaust to clear his head. > > ;^) > > Earle > > "L.W. (Bill) ------ III" <----------@cox.net> wrote in message > news:45ef50b1$0$16387$88260bb3@free.teranews.com.. . > > Hi Earle, > > You know that hasn't been true in twenty years, we can see the > > mountains, now. > > God Bless America, Bill 0|||||||0 > > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/ > > > > "Earle Horton" <apodo@gracioso.usa> wrote in message > > news:87udnaUsw8E213LYnZ2dnUVZ_sapnZ2d@comcast.com. .. > > > We have low sulfur road fuel in the U.S. now. I don't know how "low" it > > is. > > > I rented a diesel Golf in Spain last year, and you can smell the > > difference > > > between that and a gasoline car. I don't know what it would be like > with > > a > > > whole city full of them. They don't even have that in Europe. One > night > > in > > > the bus station in Burgos, I was talking to a fellow tourist from L.A. > who > > > was having difficulty breathing. I thought I was going to have to call > > the > > > ambulancia, but he stuck his face down by the bus exhausts for a few > > > minutes. "There, that's better", he said. > > > > > > Earle > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > > > > -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
Re: Novak has pulled their heads out-a little
At least we can burn firewood to keep warm.
God Bless America, Bill 0|||||||0 mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/ "Earle Horton" <apodo@gracioso.usa> wrote in message news:2I6dnR-Z5dNt6HLYnZ2dnUVZ_qSrnZ2d@comcast.com... > I have been there. You can see the mountains, but when you are coming down > into the valley from the mountains you can see that something is different > down there, just like you can with Denver. I may have exaggerated a little > bit. The tourist from L.A. only had to take a couple of breaths from the > bus exhaust to clear his head. > > ;^) > > Earle > > "L.W. (Bill) ------ III" <----------@cox.net> wrote in message > news:45ef50b1$0$16387$88260bb3@free.teranews.com.. . > > Hi Earle, > > You know that hasn't been true in twenty years, we can see the > > mountains, now. > > God Bless America, Bill 0|||||||0 > > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/ > > > > "Earle Horton" <apodo@gracioso.usa> wrote in message > > news:87udnaUsw8E213LYnZ2dnUVZ_sapnZ2d@comcast.com. .. > > > We have low sulfur road fuel in the U.S. now. I don't know how "low" it > > is. > > > I rented a diesel Golf in Spain last year, and you can smell the > > difference > > > between that and a gasoline car. I don't know what it would be like > with > > a > > > whole city full of them. They don't even have that in Europe. One > night > > in > > > the bus station in Burgos, I was talking to a fellow tourist from L.A. > who > > > was having difficulty breathing. I thought I was going to have to call > > the > > > ambulancia, but he stuck his face down by the bus exhausts for a few > > > minutes. "There, that's better", he said. > > > > > > Earle > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > > > > -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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