Hello Adian,
Youth is relative, I sure we both are young to somebody and old to
others. The 2 stroke diesel engine has existed for years now in heavy
trucks and farm tractors but, I don't know of any passenger and light trucks
using them, other than the occasional Detroit 4-71 [I may have
Hi Jim,
You cannot use alcohol in a newer Briggs and Stratton because it will
attack the rubber parts in the carburetor. If you had a old one with a float
type carb. it would work better.
Ed Service
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The Briggs and Stratton engines are one of the poorest designs in stationery
engines, try Honda or other well known Jap makers, they may be more suitable
to Methanol.
Methanol is used in racing engines primarily because of the fact that more
power is available, and when your into pure horsepower
Methanol is used in racing engines because it burns at a much lower
temperature than petrol, which means that you can use more of it to produce
the power without burning the pistons out.
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but if you can ge the generator to run at a constant rpm you can get
more eff.
The thought of running fuel pumps, etc. off electric
is a false economy in that the engine must still
generate the electricity used to drive these
accessories and there is actually a effeciency loss to
convert
Jim,
As the other replies indicate the main reason is that
alcohol will melt rubber parts. This can be overcome
by replacing them with non rubbe parts.Rubber gaskets
can be replaced with silicone based gasket in a tube
and if your fuel meter needle has a rubber tip you can
replace with a solid or
