Spark plugs/injectors & specified ignition energy

[Danny Barrett]

G'day there mate...
The ignition thing sounds good. I have a spark plug gap of about
1.5mm(standard for my car). How do you think this will go? As for Charles
Nelson Pogue, of Winnepeg, Canada... No... I don't know a thing about him
(just kidding)... As for 216 MPG - I assume this is imperial gallons, not US
gallons. Asside from that, Pogue, himself never claimed to get more than 100
MPG (he never claimed this much). He only claimed a "significant increase"
in mileage. However, others claimed these figures for him. I don't know the
accuracy of such figures, but I believe he did get 100 MPG at least once
(from other evidence that I've seen). However, he was using "white"
gasoline, which is completely free of lead, and didn't have any "molecular
binders," as we have now. The molecular binders are to keep the fuel from
vaporising in storage. As for unleaded fuel, it still has lead, but in trace
quantities, so it does not harm cat converters. What Pogue didn't reallise
until too late was that his carb catalytically cracked the fuel into methane
(and other small, high octane molecules). When leaded fuel came along, his
invention ceased to work, as the lead coated the copper surface of his
vaposiser, and stopped the catalytic reaction. Now, with ULP, and PULP, we
can use second hand cat converters to crack the fuel (provided there is no
air in the catalytic chamber, and the chamber's temp is over 500 deg C).
Pogue didn't reallise all of this until after leaded fuel became the normal
fuel, and "white" gasoline was no longer available. I'm designing a carb on
these very principles at the moment, using EFI to control it. A friend of
mine put me onto what he calls Thremal Catalytic Cracking. Anyway, tell me
what you know, and I may be able to help you a bit.

Danny Barrett.



>Hi,  Danny,
>The system itself will give huge possibilities to bring down a/f-ratio,
>because it changes and adapts each type of combustion process much better
>to the engines' parameters.
>The minimum a/f-ratios achievable with a well structured spark energy are
>depending on your combustion chamber, spark plug gap, ignition coil, a.s.o.
>For bringing the a/f-ratio down, some fine-tuning of spark advance and
>electrode gapping will greatly help to use at least some of the impulse
>oscillator ignition systems' advantages.
>
>By the way, DID YOU HEAR SOMETHING ABOUT A HIGH-MILEAGE CARB IN THE 30's by
>Charles M. Pogue which could do 216 mpg!!
>
>Joachim