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Engineer Gets 110 MPG Out Of '87 Mustang

Doug Pelmear said he isn't toying with the engine of 1987 Ford Mustang for the money.

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#1
Jul 2, 2008
 
It makes you wonder why one guy can do this with an engine but the giant American car manufactures can't or won't do it. Pretty sad. Good or this guy I hope he makes a mint off this. Shame on the car manufactures for not being able to provide or willing to provide this already. Sounds like they need to fire their engineers.
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#2
Jul 2, 2008
 
Holycrap! But its not just the American car manufacturers. Its all of them that cant, but mostly wont, do something like this.
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#3
Jul 2, 2008
 
If he is able to produce engines capabable of this and at an affordable price to consumers, he will be a hero. He could provide this technology to only the American car producers, get them back on track, and save alot of American jobs and create new ones.
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#4
Jul 2, 2008
 
I WANT ONE....
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#5
Jul 2, 2008
 
Sounds great but is this story actually verified? Don't get me wrong, but this website is know for posting crap just to get people all riled up.
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#6
Jul 2, 2008
 
Unfortunately, real scientists won't be fooled, and they will ask tough questions that this guy will not be able to answer.

His efficiency line is hilarious. How the reporter let it go is beyond me.
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#7
Jul 2, 2008
 
great...now where do I bring my car to have this done!
Honestly, there's alot of money to be had just tweaking cars people already own.
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#8
Jul 2, 2008
 
This guy is a nut job and so are you all for believing it. 0-60 in 3 secs. and 400 hp? And 110 mpg? What? We can't see under the hood? First sign the guy is a whacko. Come on people.
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#9
Jul 2, 2008
 
I hope the big multi-national Multi-trillion dollar Energy/Oil companies let him live long enough to bring this tech online. I have my doubts.. :(
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#10
Jul 2, 2008
 
You people cant be THIS gullible? Sure I HOPE he turns out to be true, but 400hp, 0-60 in 3sec, AND 100 mpg? All things that engineers struggle with independantly, let alone all at once.... Proof please.
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#11
Jul 2, 2008
 
**Please refer to "Introduction to Internal Combustion Engines" by Richard Stone for confirmation** It would be nice if the facts were checked before a article is released like this. There are numberous factual errors in this post which can be verified in published texts on the internal combustion engine. First, traditional gasoline engines operate at an efficiency of about 30%, not the 8-10% claimed. This would mean that the "nearly five times" statement is incorrect. There are no references to the method of testing other than the "designer" claims it operates at this efficiency. There are limits to the amount of energy that can be extracted from a specific fuel, and the perpetual motion machine is still not quite perfected yet...
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#12
Jul 2, 2008
 
I hope so. It would be great if there eventually was a conversion kit for existing cars
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#13
Jul 2, 2008
 
The Dean Diesel got eaten by big oil back in the seventies. You can bet this one won't survive to manufacture either.
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#14
Jul 2, 2008
 
wait a minute now, one article calls him an engineer and the other calls him a mechanic, neither is true, he is just a common liar. how did this ever get published in the first place?
we can talk laws of physics, the probability of him being an idiot savant, his inability to document his "feat" or his "I bet I can get some donations if I tell everyone I know that the auto companies would hide it if I sold it to them" conspiracy crap that ignores the fact that GM lost $38 billion and Ford another $12 billion, they both closed about half their auto plants and GM's stock is at the lowest value ever. Just another chump getting his 15 minutes, how about we have the channel 4 investigative reporter floow this up and expose the guy as a high school dropout that is the town drunk and a known liar.
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#15
Jul 2, 2008
 
I guess verification of facts is no longer a prerequsit of printing a story in a newspaper report.

go figure why the general public no longer trust any standard news media.
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#16
Jul 2, 2008
 
Hope Doug and his revolutionary idea make it until sunset, it's a corrupt world we live in. For the record I'm a strong supporter of Doug's technology!
Moto
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#17
Jul 2, 2008
 
I would like to try with my 1970 Mustang provided that I can read the test results done by a credible and official test station. By the way,
Is anybody reforming Air used for combustion?
We do.
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#18
Jul 2, 2008
 
I'd say CNN did a little homework before the release, I know for a fact the mustang story is more factual than the news releases on the war and politics.Put that in your pipe and smoke it. My verification of facts comes from the horse's mouth. Friends in the military.
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#19
Jul 2, 2008
 
That is good. NO MORE B S GAS prices to worry about. But there is a NEW concern for him. He gets such great mileage, he won't burn off the gas that quickly. More and more gas will stay in the tank for extended periods of time and cause junk to build up. 110 miles a gallon...I don't even drive that much in a week.
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#20
Jul 2, 2008
 
General Motors you SUCK!! YOU JUST SUCK!!! You're cars look like
s h i t, they can't get mileage, and your embracing a B S alternative fuel made from, of all things, CORN! GM, you've got no good ideas, maybe u should look into trying to steal a few engineers from Toyota of Japan, and pay them alot more...You could bring up the point to your regular workers, "You see this? When you get results, you get paid well...And YOU GUYS AREN'T GETTING JACK FOR RESULTS!"
H e ll, maybe they should make a deal with Toyota, to ship some American engineers to Japan, to work and learn from the masters how to get creative. Then bring them back when they feel enlightened about how to change their autos...After all, Japan wants to keep good relations with the U.S., they voluntarily raised the prices of their cars so they weren't cheaper than American cars, I think they would do this. Then Americans would have a much stronger bond with them....blah, blah, blah, get your
A S S ES over there and learn auto engineering the right way...
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