The Great Experiment Fuel from Water

We did it. The test has begun. Our test vehicle is a 98 Durango which is not famous for getting great mileage. The car was driven a total of 424.3 miles over a 10 day period. Some city and some freeway driving, and several different drivers. This took a total of 29.798 gallons of fuel. I filled up the tank again this morning and the mechanics installed my water to fuel device. After the device was installed I realized that I needed distilled water for this device. I started looking and went to several convenience stores and one grocery store in what turned out to be a vain attempt to purchase the distilled water. On the way home this evening I finally got lucky by stopping into a drug store. By this time I had driven another 19.3 miles. I topped off the tank and found that I had used another 1.911 gallons of gas or 11.98 MPG, only about 2 miles of this was freeway driving, the rest was city streets.

When I bought the water I stopped in the parking lot and filled up the device and added the necessary baking soda. The device has a threaded plug for the filler opening. I am not sure why, but it seems like the threads were stripped. The plug just didn't want to go back in, but I got it in far enough to seal the opening. There is another opening in the top that allows you to adjust the amount of air being drawn through this device. After starting the car, I looked at it and could see bubbles forming and coming up, it almost looked like the water was boiling. I adjusted the valve, but it seemed like the draw was trying to collapse the top, so I opened it up a little further. I haven't noticed any difference in the performance yet, but I have only driven it a few miles so far.If the literature is correct, I should achieve a 25% increase in MPG or about 17.8 MPG.

My thinking has gotten involved in this though. There is a tube out of the device that connects to the vacuum port on the manifold. This is how the Brown's Gas ( a combination of Hydrogen and Oxygen gets into the combustion chambers. Acthally this is a controlled vacuum leak, you are getting more air into the fuel mixture than is called for, so the engine is running a little leanre, therfore better gas mileage. The other question I have is when you add this additional fuel to the mixture, how does the computer in the car know this and lean the gasoline mixture?

I will be impressed if this does give the mpg boost as claimed. More next week.

I'm Back

It has been too long since I posted anything. I have been busy with the dealership, the radio show, family and friends. Someone told me that life is what happens while you are planning what you want to do. I am doing research and testing on running a car on water. This involves splitting the water to hydrogen and oxygen and injecting the resulting gas into the air intake of your car. Supposedly this will increase your miles per gallon 20-30 percent. If you have been getting 16 MPG you should achieve 20MPG or more. I am currently driving a vehicle to determine the current MPG it is getting. Next week I will install the device and see if there is really an increase in the distance I can go on a tank of gas. I am looking forward to finding out.

Car Buyer Beware

It sounds too good to be true. A decent looking car, it doesn't really have a whole lot of miles, and even though it does have a few flaws it sounds cheap. You looked on Craigslist.com and found cars that seemed like a bargain, and priced mostly under $3,000 they were affordable. This was a car dealer that I know of. He sold lots of cars, for reasonable prices. When things were going good, people would stream onto his lot to look at and purchase cars. Most buyers came with cash or cashiers checks, bought the car and left. The problem came up when the people running the dealership didn't see eye to eye about business practices. All of a sudden the lot was vacant, and phone numbers are disconnected.

Since our lot is located very close to this other dealership, we have talked to several of their customers who are having problems getting titles and license plates. Others say they were promised repairs, but they weren't completed.

A couple of the people said they had filed complaints on this dealership hopefully they will be able to make things right.

The moral to this story is " caveat emptor" or buyer beware. Do your homework, call the better business bureau and get the statistics on the dealership. Check out the Arizona Independent Automobile Dealers Association (AIADA) for some very good tips. Find out if there have been complaints and if they have been properly handled. Look around at the place of business, what does it look like. There are many car sellers who advertise on craigslist,com who are what we refer to as curbstoners. These could be individuals who buy and sell cars without benefit of a dealers license. If you buy from one of these you have little or no protection if something goes wrong. It could be a licensed wholesale dealer who is retailing cars, which is not permitted under his license. It could be a retail dealer who doesn't do the title work properly or pay sales tax on the transaction. You could be buying a car that was wrecked and rebuilt.

In Phoenix, everyone needs a car but be careful how you buy it.