Injector"spray"vs.evaporation

[Dave Williams]

-> >> A number of years ago, I read about a "Hot Vapor" engine
-> >> that Smokey Yunick designed and developed with the intent of
...
-> >is there any thing in print of how he did this??

 Nope.  It was a "secret process" that he didn't patent.

 He used a Buick V6 with three cylinders lopped off, the water jackets
on the remaining three filled, ran an exhaust/intake interheater rig to
raise the intake charge temp to over 400F, used a small turbo as a
"check valve" (claimed it didn't make any boost), carbureted, with what
looked like an ordinary GM HEI ignition.  No knock sensor, no EFI, no
computer controlled spark, no water injection.  All mid'70s stuff.

 The "secret" part was how he kept the thing from detonating its guts
all over the road.  It's still a secret, as far as I know.  Personally I
think it was a hoax.

 Just because something is in print doesn't make it true.  Back in the
'80s the Society of Automotive Engineers' magazine "Automotive
Engineering" gave feature space to a guy who supposedly had a catalyst
setup to turn water into gasoline... of course it didn't pan out either.

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