Re: [Amc-list] Gasoline stinks!

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

If you got a daily driver I'd consider a still for straight alcohol and you could run E85 on trips in quite a few areas.
Not sure how it would do on a pleasure car, I wonder about alcohol drawing moisture.
Methane is not easy to work with.Hard to collect and compress and transport. No infrastructure for more on the road either!
Another good bet is a diesel conversion, you can run it on Bio diesel, Used Veggie oil, Used motor oil, etc;
With a Met and say VW diesel you would have a pretty good match and most people would not know you converted it!
the noise could be atributed to the english 4 cyl! [i think it was english?]
   Make a pretty cool little car actually. Could be fairly peppy if built correctly, maybe the 1.9L vw Turbo diesel. Some importers are bringing in ones form Japan and Canada that don't have all the little quirks in the ecu that need worked around from safety and emmisions stuff. Prices I've seen run $3-4k though, but compared to price of a new car...
   For trans you can get adapters to hook them up to yoda pickup trannys! Should be real reliable once done.

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Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II
" Chronic Pain Hurts"

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Bruce Griffis" <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx>
> With the cost of fuel, I've been thinking of an ancient Mother Earth
> News magazine(when did I read that, mid-70's?) where a guy was running
> his car on methane (fermented chicken sh*). If I didn't live in
> suburbia in a regulated subdivision (oh, the horrors!) I'd think about
> that.
> 
> Or maybe electric. I bet it wouldn't take much to run a little Met
> coupe on batteries. My wife would kill me - well, say unpleasant
> things to me - if I dragged home another project. But an electric Met
> would be a lot of fun! Could use a tiny motorcycle trailer for getting
> groceries.
> 
> Hope the gas conversion goes well. I think you said you had a
> different job, more miles and a regular schedule - prompting the move
> to gas. Right?
> 
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:45 AM,  <Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I know you had your reasons for going back to gas, but I think yer nuts....
> > $4.60 a gallon out there?
> > I'd have left it alone and worked out a fueling schedule.
> > Maybe a bigger tank.
> >
> > :]
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