You replace it when not is use to lengthen its life, I assume. That's a good idea. Are the sensors a common thread pitch?

 

I heard on NPR this morning that the government is pushing for E15 year round. What is "stoich"?

 

Ahh, stoichiometric. Got it.

 

18mm I believe. Leave it in if you want, as long as you’re using unleaded. If nothing else you’ll be able to see the changes in your air/fuel when the climate changes and/or the fuel composition changes.

 

Roger that.

 

Weld in bung

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Not difficult to weld onto Header collector. Mark R can give you guidance on where on the header to mount it and at what angle. Make sure you mark where you want to mount it while header is mounted so you know you have room for the bung and O2 sensor.

 

On weather And methanol...it won't work well, with 500 years of cooling coming and the lack of food, including corn to make it.....

 

We are still lucky here, 91 octane has 0 ethanol, so far anyways.

 

We should be seeing Ethanol being removed, from the gasoline here in the next few years as farm production plummets from weather changes. But what people are not also looking at is the water is drying up underground, which many of them count on now a days as the deep deep aquifers are running out.. This is caused by human irrigation and waterworks pumping it out far faster, than it can ever replenish itself, in the last 100 years or so.

But enjoy today.

 

I think we missed something important now a days often over looked, in lawn mowers and cars, and that is the fuel goes bad very quickly now a days. Be it the blending of gas or the alcohol it is turning to varnish and loading up the systems up with water. Its one of the primary reason the perfect fine running mowers last year fail to start or run right the next year when needed So you need to get rid of any older gas and put fresh in it.
There is also something called Carb Defender that might help.

There is also a cheap way, or it use to be, to raise the octane and usually found at places like Ace Hardware and that is pure toluene sold as paint stripper. Toluene is normally found in gasoline, just add a little more in the warmer months. In colder months it hurts starting and is not needed normally as much. Summer blends versus winter blends of fuel.

 

The ethanol likely won't be removed from gasoline used in major metropolitan areas as there are EPA mandates to use oxygenated fuel. For those areas it's not about "cheaper" fuel or whatever, it's a federal government mandate.

 

Rules can be cancelled over night and through Executive order. There would be little to no change in pollution, even in cities, if alcohol was taken out of the gasoline. I would go so far as to say all car pollution rules and laws could be dropped, without the pollution problems of the past, as the technology has changed along with fuel mileage technologies.

When methanol was put in fuel the US imported its fuel, to some degree and today the U is a major exporter of fuels, and the markets worldwide are drowning in it. Even with all the attempts to block it from Iran and Russia through sanctions and intentional massive destruction of oil fields during the middlle east wars.

Then there is the issue of massive food destruction worldwide that is not in your news yet but being covered by spots such as adapt2030, as the climate is changing, with the jet streams and the magnetosphere. The massive snows last winter, and then massive thunderstorms seen this summer are some of your clues and this is just the beginning of very foul farming conditions and food destruction. In other areas they are seeing massive droughts. All this while the irrigation water gas tank is running out. Those on the fringes of these great under ground fresh water lakes are seeing their water wells fail already in places like California. And restricting water usage will not stop it, as California among others are finding out.

The Russians already know all this and China's experts have said expect 500 of years of cooling, while the Russian forecast is only 50-100 years of ice age weather patterns, before gradual warming again.

Food for you or livestock, or corn in your fuel is the choice. China has already cancelled their imports of future grain orders from the US.

You don't have to believe me or anyone else, but just watch what happens as the climate is already changing. Watch as our rain fall and snow fall records are broken in epic manner, and the food grows more expensive and scarce. The people at the top see the problem as 6 million to many people on this property they see themselves as owning, as they call us deplorables and useless eaters. Good luck, and let's get back to cars and whats good for them. Before this gets corny....

 

While some of that is true, you’re way off on the corn issue. I’d like to see you or any human eat the same corn they feed livestock. It’s three times the size of regular corn and ten times tougher. Have at it.

Crops go in cycles for the most part. I know I’ve been in the food business for over 30 years. Last year the east lost millions of acres due to drought and other issues. This year that same area, so far, expects better than average yields.
Adding ethanol to the fuel initially was done for some of the reasons given, but I would argue today it’s become somewhat beneficial. Look at E85, that’s now the fuel of choice for lots of guys with blower applications and gaining everyday.
Imo we need make the best use of what we have at our fingertips while trying to keep the negatives to a minimum.
Thanks.

 

I hope you were in food, as in the past tense.

The weather they and eye are talking about hasn't been seen for a few hundred years. The fairly famous painting of George Washington with his troop crossing the Delaware shows a large ice flow in it. Other paintings in England show people out on the ice in frost fairs, as the river Thames was frozen over

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Thames_frost_fairs

This is a whole different world weather wise from what we have seen the last 50 years. Ever hear of the year without summer???

That was during that period when a large volcano went pop, and it wasn't a super volcano, which could trigger a full blown ice age like that seems to happen every so often on the geological time scale.

Alcohol is preferred for the guys with blower, because Nitro has got so expensive to make real power. Of course they generally are not running carburetors either, that alcohol attacks and destroys, in what is now very cheap gas. Here is a guy who his to deal with its effects all the time that I like to watch both to learns about small motors and I like the way he works.

https://www.youtube.com/user/mustie1/videos

Good cheap pump fuel gas turns to bad old gas very quickly sometimes in weeks in the tank, and just sitting in fuel bowls. Used fast, as in driven daily no problem, but not so in in small motors or hot rods not used daily. Many times the fuel is evaporating out of the fuel bowls, in a few days leaving behind residue. Its that bad. Corrosion of tanks and fuel lines has also become more common, and then there is fuel lines leaking and bursting, from your wonderful alcohol attacking it even at 10%. Then there is pulling water out of the air, and putting that into our "fuel"

He needs to use fresh fuel and not old fuel, which old fuel was fine in the old days of a whole lot better fuel.

He is already handing out waivers

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-en...in-trumps-base

 

I guess you missed my point. You need to check into the different varieties of corn for yourself, you’ll see what I mean.
The same acreage used for feed corn isn’t used for corn for human consumption, or even for ethanol.
But another reason the farmers will grow a consumable variety of corn for fuel is because they don’t worry about loads being rejected for bugs, rocks, etc. The ethanol plants will take it no matter what. Regular FDA approved processing plants won’t. That’s the main trade off.

 

 

I know a little bit about farming and the different types and grades of grain since being raised in East Texas, until about 12 or 13, with grandparents in Delhi Louisiana, and living much of my life in the farming/oil and gas world of southern New Mexico, Feed lots less than 20 miles away, with a lovely aroma every time it rains and the air is right.

I never mentioned the power or gas mileage loss, from use of that rot gut mix everyone suffers from every day. And the more of it used the greater it becomes, in our cars.

Personally, I would rather have the ability of driving around in home built electric cars, with batteries and capacitors that don't even exist yet. Plenty of sunshine and winds here, and some say way way too much LOL

A little history on what looks to be coming around again,

http://www.senewmexicowx.org/2014/01...it-happen.html

Money can be made of lost on all this, especially if you are food connected in anyway.

 

Gotcha. Check out the new Porsche all electric vehicles. 800v instead of 400, and they charge from 5-80% in under 25 minutes. Now THATS technology.

 

Very cool. I believe BMW also was pushing for battery universality and quick change battery stations throughout Europe, something like 15 to 30 minutes. Ethanol has plus and minuses. The plus is very high octane, the negatives are fuel economy and moisture attraction. Also ethanol causes a lot of pollution as well, just happens to be renewable. I don't like the now 16 cents a liter for premium over regular 87. Yes, our planet is screwed, we knew that a long time ago🤗. All us "Dwarves" have dug too deep and were too greedy, releasing shadow and flames. There have been a couple of earthquakes in the Esterhazy, Saskatchewan area, no fault lines but multiple Potash mines right nearby. Sorry, Mac, we kind of ruined your thread😕.