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            03/10/96 - Submitted by The Wildman for your approval.

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Several years ago, an idea popped into my mind that kept bothering me on a

regular basis. At the time, I was employed as an electronics technician at a

retail home furnishing establishment.  Along with doing repairs on various

pieces of electronic equipment; I also went out on service calls and also

delivered new merchandise. My duties also included the mechanical upkeep of

the truck that I drove at this business. Oil changes, fixing minor things and

tune-ups, etc.  Since I had always done my own repairs on my personal

vehicles, this was no real problem as I "had the experiece".



In an effort to curb the encreasing fuel costs of the many vehicles that were

owned by this store; all of the gasoline burning trucks were converted over to

propane. This was a less expensive fuel to buy. The conversion was expensive,

but the savings on fuel would pay for it in less than a year due to the number

of miles that we put on those trucks. My truck was a Dodge van with the "slant

six" engine.  Puny in the horsepower department, but it got me where I needed

to go.  I kept a log of the miles and the amount of fuel that was burned in my

truck. Our boss made us do that so that he could keep track of us if we goofed

of and used his trucks for other than the business purposes!



Smart fellow, but hard to work for.



I recorded a steady average 14 miles per gallon on the propane and 16 on

regular gasoline. Not bad considering the heavy hawling that I did a lot of.



One day while spending some time in the library; I came upon the subject of

propane in an engineering book. It stated that propane had 131,000 BTU's of

heat in 1 liquid gallon. OK. So what is the point? I'm getting to it!



I also read that gasoline had 3 times that amount in a liquid gallon. A little

light went off. And then the question came.



If I get 14 miles per gallon while running on propane in my truck; and only 16

MPGs on gasoline; and gasoline has 3 times the energy per gallon than propane

has; where the hell is all that extra energy going?



Can't be machanical cause there ain't that much more horsepower. Can't be heat

cause it actually ran a little cooler on gas.



Only thing left; it had to be going out the tailpipe as wasted energy!

BINGO!!!  WHY?



Why, indeed! How come I had not heard about this before? What's going on here?

I read more in some more chemistry books and discovered the secret of what was

going on. Ya see; I knew that that propane was going into that Dodge engine as

a gas and not an atomised liquid as gasoline does. That was the answer. The

propane was burned completely in the engine. It would pass the most stringent

of California emission tests!



I had heard from the people who installed the propane conversions that this

product would burn cleanly just like the kitchen stove on gas; and they were

right. After 6,000 miles the oil would come out of the engine a little dark

but in no way really ugly like out a gasoline burner.



So what was the secret of burning gasoline cleanly in an engine? And would

this improve the major problem that we have with smog these days?



After reading some more of those chemical engineering books; I learned that

gasoline would vaporise (not burn) at about 350 degrees F. So the idea came to

me that if I could heat the fuel and air mixture up to about say, 400 degrees

or so; then it would be pure gas and air entering the cylinders and would burn

much more cleanly and efficiently.



But how would I do this? Then I hit a snag.  Liquid gasoline has a specific

volume and gaseous gasoline is about 3 times larger. This meant that a regular

carburetor would not work right.  Alas, fuel injection has taken over. Hooray

for electronics. You see, that little computer monitors the amount of oxygen

that is exiting the exhaust manifold at all times in order to correctly adjust

the proper fuel to air ratio for the engine. So all we have to do is put a

heater under the airbox and we have it.  Maybe!



I figured out that if we made a heat exchanger and placed it under the fuel

injection stuff and used the hot exhaust as our heat source; we should get

plenty of heat to do the job.



Only, how can we exhange the heat that quickly and what about when we start

the engine cold?



When we start the engine up, the fuel injection will do what it always has. As

the exchanger heats up and the gasoline begins to expand; the little computer

will adjust the amount of fuel that the injectors put into the intake

manifold. The mixture will continue to be at the correct ratio. Now we got

something here. We should see about triple the gas mileage. And run cleaner

too!



And now the clincher! You know, we all like to think that we are the only ones

that have a certain idea in mind and that we are going to really invent

something that ain't been here before. Well. tain't so!



I read a file off the Keelynet BBS called LEENOTES.ASC. Get it and read it!



Mr. Lee Tripett has had the same idea and has experimented with it and found

out that he could get 1/3 the fuel flow for the same power out using this

method. He talked to some people about it and was informed of the political

and economic ramifications of this idea and decided, I guess, not to persue

it.



However, I am a person that puts the good of other people ahead of politics

and economics. If it will help this country and the world, than hang the

politicians and cartels.



Using this system, the average automobile would triple it's mileage and would

be entirely clean burning. Yet oil cartels and politicians don't want this

information out. They would rather suck our pockets dry and pollute our land

just so they can live the good life. And then in Washington say that they are

for balancing the budget in one breath and then voting themselves a pay raise

in another breath. It's lunacy!



This system will work and this information needs to get out! And since "they"

don't want it to get out; we must do it!  That's why I have taken the time to

write this file. To whoever reads this file; please put it up on every BBS

that you are on so that we can pass it on. Also, if anyone has a good design

for a small and efficient heat exchanger; make a drawing and get this info out

there.



I haven't built one yet; but, I'm about to figure one out. Trying to do this

plus run a small electronics repair business is tough.



So, now you know what I know. By the way; Mr. Tripette's idea about using

steel balls inside the heat exchanger to speed up the heat transfer is

perfect! Should work great. And boys; don't give out your where-abouts when

you upload this material cause Big Brother is watching and wants to know where

you are! He don't want this to get out.



Remember the guy that developed the 100MPG carburetor years ago?  It was a

system similer to this. Whatever happened to him? Nobody knows! And I don't

want to know. So how about driving around in a car that gets say, 90MPGs. Good

idea. And no smog converter!



The Wildman

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The following is the relevant section excerpted from LEENOTES.ASC on KeelyNet



On still another subject of energy.  Many years ago I developed, after two

years of trial and error, two ways to inject and monitor the rate of gasoline

consumption for an 11 hp engine which was driving an electric generator.



I monitored this flow for a constant resistive electrical load of 2500 watts.

The difference in flow rate using the regular carburetor and my device for

vaporizing the fuel was 300%.  That is right, three hundred percent

improvement in fuel efficiency!  (The fuel was vaporized by injecting it into

a jacket surrounding the exhaust pipe which was filled with steel beads.

Additional details available upon request.)



After making this startling re-discovery of a common old idea I talked to a

number of community college instructors in the automotive field. They were not

at all surprised but when they told me of the political and economic

ramifications of getting this information adopted I dropped the whole project.

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