Running engines on fumes, anyone heard of this

[Flyin6]

I ran across this a little time ago. A guy was running a small block Mopar on fumes. Some have made claims of getting upwards of 200 miles per gallon!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWqMZ8-EHSo

[Bigdave_185]

Well you gonna convert square D over to fumes?


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[Farmer Jon]

Kinda the same principal as the wood burning pickup truck. Wood puts off a flammable gas when heated. Throw a wood burning stove in the bed. That heats the wood. They suck the gas off to the carburetor through a tube and it runs. Well its a little more complicated than that but that's the simple explanation.

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[longball]

I've heard of this once before. When I was in high school one of the janitors was said to have ran an old, blue Astro van on gasoline vapor, by a system he built and received a patent on. It supposedly got 50-60 mpg. I cannot confirm whether he did or not but his son, who went to the same high school, mentioned once that someone had offered to buy his dad's invention but he was holding out for more money. Being 17 years old or so, I never gave it much thought, until the next year when his son didn't come back to school because his dad was said to have retired and moved. Rumor was he finally sold his design and made a fortune. The whole thing may be hokey and the family moving may have been just a coincidence but it does make me wonder.


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