Hi Keith and All,
If you want a drag racer you need light
weight. Start with the lightest vehicle you can . Use
a 10 -20 hp biodiesel gen to charge a 196 vdc optima
or hawker battery pack . 1 or 2 adc 9" or Ge motors to
the rear diff controlled by a DCP1200 or 2.
Axe the 4x4 drive because of weight. If you
keep it you'll never be fast. Large drive train losses
from 4 wh drives don't help either. Choose an early
mini- pickup with rear wh drive if you need a truck.
Wheel motors, no diff, have problems with
control in marginal conditions such as rain , ice,
gravel, ect . The wheel without traction will start
spinning faster and faster then it catches traction
causing bad handling problems. Traction control is
mandatory.
A better biodiesel demo would be a 100 mpg 4 seat
car with a 10 hp biodiesel gen and a kick ass electric
drive turning 13 second 1/4 mile times. This will cost
1/2 as much and perform much better.
Keith, thanks for the info on methanol toxicity. I
knew about the toxic effects of methanol but not that
ethanol was the medical treatment. Don't forget that
DD and producer gas, fires , things you smoke all
produce methanol as does Nutra- Sweet type sweetners
who's metabalites are methanol . Pilots are advised
not to use them.
Hope this helps, jerry dycus
--- Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> May I make a proposal? Let's go back to Steve's
> original
> "half-brained" idea ("biodiesel65" is Steve Spence,
> by the way, in
> one of his several current email personas).
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products.
http://shopping.yahoo.com/
-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~>
eGroups eLerts
It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free!
http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/0/_/837408/_/977231666/
---------------------------------------------------------------------_->
Biofuel at Journey to Forever:
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html
To unsubscribe, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
