Car Craft Ramblings also Alky burners

["Armand Eshleman" <aje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't believe that will happen. IF Gasoline ever gets to $10 a gallon it
will make ETHANOL the fuel of choice. It SHOULD have happened years ago. I
used to work in a shop that specialized in Alky (Methanol) big block chevys.
The engines ran VERY clean, no carbon like gas. Hard to start when cold,
needed to give em a squirt of gas down the injectors some times. High
octane, we ran 13 to one or more if we could. Didn't Kalifornia have an
"Alky for the street" program a few years back? Wonder what happened to it?


>Hmm, I wonder if my Matador Barcalounger will run on liquid hydrogen?
Hmmm....

No Hydro today,,,,, but you CAN run on alky !!!!!!!!!
But hey,,,, that's just ME!
Bruce Hevner


I live in the middle of alky land, Minnesota. Within a 30 mile drive of my
home you can
find no less than 4 ethanol plants. Don't kid yourself people, I hate to say
this but so far
ethanol is not the answer. You should see the fuel bill that an ethanol
plant has to pay to
heat the mash and distill the alky. They burn coal and natural gas like it's
never going to
run out. How much diesel do you think a farmer burns in his tractor to grow
that corn to
make ethanol from. I'm still not convinced that ethanol is the answer. Yeah
it's true it makes
money for a lot of people but is it really any more fossil fuel saving that
petroleum? Some
of the diesels are beginning to burn diesel fuel supplemented with soybean
oil. That will help
bring things more into perspective. Until they start burning the by products
of ethanol to heat
the cook, or don't use petroleum based fuels in the process of ethanol it
truly is not conservation,
it's just another way of making jobs for people, which is good
but...........
AMC content:
I worked most of the day on the Javelin. Tore down the front right side
suspension and abrasive blasted the
parts, bought a quart of epoxy primer and will have to shoot the parts
pretty soon. Paint store guy
said I could apply the color coat up to 3 days later and not have to rough
up the primer to get the
color to stick. I invested in almost all new parts for the front end. The
only part I didn't get was new upper
and lower control arms. I don't think lowers are available but American
Parts Depot sells all new upper control
arms with bushings installed for $99. Doug may have told me that the ball
joint comes installed also I can't remember.
Anyway I went through a lot of work blasting the rust off the cars
originals, pressing bushings out and in and if I
had known earlier that new ones are available, I would have probably went
that route.
I rassled the sway bar out from under the car too, that was fun, had to cut
the link off on the driver side, got a new
link kit for it too. I would really like to go the whole distance with the
underside but that will have to wait till next year,
or when I pull the 304 and stuff the 401 in.
I want to drive the car this summer!!!

Armand