Alkeehaul and liquid dynamite

[Robert Harris]

A little ancient history - once upon a time there was a device called a
holley four barrel carb.  Its primary air/fuel circuit was completely
separate from its secondary (rear barrels) on many models. The primary
handled starting,idling, cruising, light load etc.  The secondary kicked in
by linkage or vacuum demand and only handled medium to heavy loads near or
at WOT.  Which led some midnight racers in the quest of too much too much
too much is never enuff to separate the fuel crossover into two fuel
systems and run street gas in the primary and rework the secondaries to run
on Alkeehaulass.  The motor putted and trolled on street gas, and when it
came time to strut, it turned into an alcohol motor just by pushing the
throttle. This allowed 13 to 1 plus compression's and an alcohol motor cam
profile to be run.  Roundy Round dirt track sprint cars ran hundred miler
races in the eighties making over a hundred horsepower per liter naturally
aspirated on 7000 rpm pushrod V-8's so there be gold in dat dare stuff.  

Then those who had long ago lost all connection with reality would a just a
"taste" of nitro to the mix - about 10 to 15 percent with a tad of benzene
and whatever to the recipe.  The addition of liquid dynamite to the alcohol
leads to ridiculous numbers - like 300 plus horsepower per liter at about
15 pounds boost but an engine life limited to a few thousand cylinder
firings total (add it up - 8000 rpm full load life 4 seconds per run, 2
runs maybe before rebuild) .  But used in moderation can add 30 to 40
percent power to an alcohol motor and still live long enuff to finish the
banzii.

Then there came the bottle - Nitrous Oxide.  The throttle plate was quite
common - a spray bar for Nitrous, a spray bar for fuel, and it 
twernt long before the bottle was working with methanol and a "taste" by
the truly insane.

The common thread between these examples is that a relatively stock
induction system was retained for all the nasty stuff like starting,
idling, going for groceries etc. and a completely separate fuel air mixing
system running not-gasocrap was added and turned on when desired.

Now contemplate EFI.  Leave the stock monster pretty much alone, add a
second "four barrel" throttle body and air flow sensor and a separate set
of injectors - burning whatever your wallet and courage limit you to - say
a witch's brew of methanol, toluene, liquid dynamite, benzene, propylene
oxide and secret sauce.
The controller only has two jobs. A: to meter the kickapoo joy juice to the
air flow of the secondary, and only under warmed up near full load.  And B:
to determine when and how fast it opens the secondary system - say using a
"by wire" throttle controlled not by foot but by demand - kinda like the
vacuum secondary on 4 barrels.

I believe this could probably be worked with a basic stamp computer and
would be quite lethal where legality and sanctioning were not a major
concern.  It might even pass a non-visual smog.

Just opening the concept up for thought and discussion - still thinking it
thru on which toy I want to try it on and looking for all the feedback
possible before committing dollars.

If the first ingredient ain't Habanero, then the rest don't matter.
Robert Harris <bob at bobthecomputerguy.com>