[SEL] OT PA trip & fuel costs

[bill at antique-engines.com]

Real logic!
With pickup sales at what, roughly 54 percent of all auto sales now, do
emissions figures even count any more?

Bill
Runnells, Iowa
Chapman/OWE&PCo. Registry and History
http://antique-engines.com
1970 Javelin
1982 Eagle SX/4
1980 Eagle wagon
http://theamcpages.com

> Bill don't know anything about the Jeep diesel but did read an
> article that MOPAR was going to drop it. Could not meet emission
> requirements.
> But they can build 100,000 cars that most likely pollute more.GO Figure
> R Fink
>
>
> At 01:35 PM 6/6/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>>Note on gas engines, they have INCREASED compression ratios and are using
>>fast burn chambers.
>>Remember the compression ratios of the 60's and early 70's were in the
>>10:1 and 9:1 range, then dropped to 8:1 in the green decades - they are
>>back up.
>>Wonder why??
>>Fast burn, high compression, more effecient, less ping the faster you
>> burn
>>it, racers know more compression means more power and more effeciency.
>>
>>So what's the difference between our 90 year old H n M engines and the
>>newer engines that lock out certain valves when the power isn't needed?
>>GM stated it was "new technology" when they started using it. Tell that
>> to
>>the folks at Hercules or Waterloo, etc. - s'pose they are rolling in
>> their
>>graves? (about 500 rpm when needed, I guess)
>>
>>Yeah, like Ford has just introduced an amazing new type of vehicle, the
>>cross-over utility vehicle! Gee, what was my 1980 EAGLE???
>>And it got in the 20's for economy and was FULL TIME 4 wheel drive.
>>
>>I hear the diesel used in the Jeep Liberty is pretty decent - that what
>> do
>>they call it, rail system, whatever...
>>
>>Bill
>>
>> >
>
>
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