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  1. Newsgroups: alt.hotrod,wiz.hotrod
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!rsiatl!hotrod
  3. From: hotrod@dixie.com (The Hotrod List)
  4. Subject: Re: Hot vs Cold Gas
  5. Message-ID: <tcfsmtr@dixie.com>
  6. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 17:18:36 GMT
  7. Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.
  8. To: hotrod@dixie.com
  9. Reply-To: hotrod@dixie.com
  10. Posted-Date: Thursday, Jan 28 12:18:22
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  14. Approved: jgd@dixie.com
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  18. -> I remember reading, a lot of years ago, that Smokey Yunick was
  19. -> experimenting with an engine where the intake air was heated to
  20. -> somewhere around 250 degrees Fahrenheit.  This engine also had
  21. ...
  22. -> Does anyone know whatever became of this?
  23.  
  24.  After pumping it in Popular Science for a few years, I think he's
  25. dropped the idea.  Back when he first came up with it, I spent hours
  26. staring at the articles and trying to figure out how it could avoid
  27. detonating the crankshaft all over the pavement with 98-octane fuel.
  28. With today's camel piss it'd be hopeless.
  29.  
  30.  Frankly, I've always considered the whole thing to be a borderline
  31. scam.  As I recall, none of the independent testers were able to come
  32. near Yunick's mileage or horsepower claims.
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  36. Posted by: emory!chaos.lrk.ar.us!dave.williams (Dave Williams)
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