homogenizer

[Robert Harris]

Remember the engine well.  First - gasoline is a blend of components that
don't fully vaporize until 500+ degrees.  His
engine hit and maintained hat temp in the intake system.  Honda in the F-1
cars heated just the fuel to 160 C + just prior to injecting it to get the
same sort of improvement.  More fuel consumed, more power.  Plus vaporized
fuel follows gas law distribution instead of
liquid problems.

Second - ignoring detonation, power is related to oxygen and fuel.
The trouble with turbos is that most of the "boost" pressure is not
the compression of additional air, but the temperature increase
induced pressure boost.  Thats why aftercoolers are so useful.
He had to heavily turbocharge just to get the amount of oxygen
back up to the level it would have been if he had not heated the
intake charge to that level. 

What happened to it? Methinks old smokey, who has been in bed
with one of the big three since moby dick was a minnow got made
a deal he couldn't refuse.
If the first ingredient ain't Habanero, then the rest don't matter.
Robert Harris <bob at bobthecomputerguy.com>


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> From: Michael F. Sargent <mfsargent at msn.com>
> To: diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: RE: homogenizer
> Date: Thursday, February 13, 1997 8:42 PM
> 
> > The device was a turbine type blade that spun to homogenize the
mixture.
> 
> If I recall correctly, the turbine blade just happened to be an old 
> turbocharger, and the homogenizer just happened to produce positive
pressure 
> in the intake, and that just happened to produce more horsepower without 
> increasing fuel consumption by just coincidentally converting some of
that 
> waste heat that just happened to be in the exhaust stream into rear wheel

> power.
> 
> A lot of coincidences there.   8-)
> 
> 	Mike
> 
> P.S. Smokey was said to have had a car tech inspected by Nascar, and they

> removed the fuel tank to check the volume. Apparently the tech inspectors

> didn't think the tank was legal, while Smokey was sure it was, so he
grabbed 
> the empty fuel tank, threw it into the back of the car, and drove off.