Micro CoGen.

Quote from: Henry W on April 06, 2023, 07:54:54 PMIt looks like lots of fun.   I think they should install explosion resistant flywheel scatter shields. Thanks for posting!

Lots of black smoke, I'm pretty sure they are running on diesel fuel

Yea, scatter shields, they are pretty far above design RPM range!
Then again, I saw a CS in a vid the other day and it was way above 650 or 850 as well.

Well per USA tractor pulling, I would have thought they'd roll much more coal

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I'm trying to figure out if they are Diesels or converted to Gasoline.......Alcohol.....Nitro??
https://youtu.be/N4p-mOf3PFU

Wild stuff

You could always step down to an I4....340hp...for starters.

https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/blueprint-engines-four-cylinder-crate-engine-ls-head/?sm_id=paid:sm_id:fb:mtoo:23:OOtraffic:article:m18-65us:mt

I guess with a turbo it would be at least 450, maybe 500hp.
You can even run a Winsor head if you don't like the LS.

Henry,
What about the Holley Terminator X Max Stealth?

https://youtu.be/KRbWVAi7Z-o

I drove VW Diesels for 26 years, over 750K miles. I don't even like spark ignition engines. I have to say GF bought a new 2011 Suzuki grand vitara and it's been flawless. 235k+ at this point. It's never been in the shop for other than brakes and oil changes which I do myself. Orig. exhaust system. The only incident, a battery cell shorted and took out the regulator on the alternator, no fault of the vehicle. But.....there is that black sooty tail pipe.

One thing really puzzles me. I see a lot of cars today with sooty black exhaust pipes. They obviously run rich. Cars with carbs would have tan or grey exhaust pipes. I thought with EFI and the computer monitoring A/F ratio 'many' times
per second, it would be regulated closely and keep mixture near optimum. Not so? EFI theory sound good anyway. Henry, your fuel mileage numbers would seem to indicate same?

I just recently got a 15k Yale forklift, someone's swapped in a 292 Chevy. I prefer that over the Slant and the Ford 300.

Incidentally, I had always thought the slant 6 was mostly a joke. Then some years back,I got a 1970 Yale forklift with a 170 in it and read up on them with a new appreciation of the reliable design. I've done some maintenance work to the machine, and did replace the propane fuel system components. But I would not be at all happy to have to do an entire rebuild on such an obsolete engine. I'd probably look for a newer model forklift instead. Sinking such money into a gasoline fuel generator seems foolish.

Quote from: Henry W on February 23, 2023, 05:28:55 PMWhen the annular nozzles for the injector plugs up, the sniper has to be sent in to Holley to get extracted and replaced. It's also likely that the ECU will get cooked. The warranty is only a year.

Sounds like the worst possible pile of crap to have on an 'emergency' gen set!

I saw that video and found it interesting, although I have to wonder why anyone would spend the money on a spark engine and not just go diesel these days.

What is the cost and life expectancy of those batteries?
Nice looking setup.

Not Listeroid related, but recently acquired something I've been after for 50 years.
Big project.

Wowzers sounds like a La-BOMB-a

Quote from: BruceM on July 29, 2021, 09:48:06 AM
Mike Strizki in New Jersey stores his summer's excess PV energy  via electrolysis of water as low pressure hydrogen in a big tank farm in his yard. 

Don't know the answers to those questions, but they are good questions to ask.

Have they solved the problem of Hydrogen embrittlement these days?