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OK, I've been reading a few links from here, and I think I've come up with an idea I want to try. I thought I run things through here 1st to see if anybody has any improvements, suggestions, insults, or cautions.
I was reading this page: LINK and specifically looking at this picture: LINK , and thinking -- what would happen if I generated some oxy-hydrogen and injected it into the airflow of my beat-up old car?
A really basic electrolyzer like this one: LINK will put out hydrogen and oxygen in a semi-quasi-stable gaseous form. Basically, it would be a monopropellant, carrying both reactant and oxidizer. That way, except for volume displacement, you wouldn't be enriching the air/gasoline mixture by that much.
This page: LINK shows that even home-built electrolyzer can output enough oxy-hydrogen to be a fairly efficient blowtorch. I'm thinking of instead introducing the oxy-hydrogen into the cylinder with the regular air/gasoline mixture and ignighting the whole thing at the same time.
I figure I can waste about $50 on building the setup, and I'm getting rid of the car 1 way or another (I've got a geo metro coming in next week as a replacement -- 50mpg, here I come). I build the generator, powering it with a solar panel from Harbor Freight ($30). The the rest of the generator, the piping, and flame arrestors, etc will come from Home Depot ($20) or my parts pile at home.
Some possible bad impacts I can think of right away:
- premature oxy-hydrogen ignition outside the engine -- having played with this stuff before, I think a loud "boom" would be the worst impact (I won't generate that much oxy-hydrogen with my setup). In any case, the car battery emits at least as much hydrogen as this setup would be -- I've blown up a car battery before, and while devestating if it happens in your face, I figure with the hood down I'd be ok.
- knocking, pinging, pre-detonation, backfire, etc -- well, like I said, I'm getting rid of the car 1 way or the other.
I'm not going for 300mpg, nor am I trying to run the car completely "off of water" like some of these overunity people and con artists try to do. I'm just looking to supplement my gasoline a bit. If I get 5 extra mpg or a little more power after a dyno test, I'd be really impressed.
Any thoughts?