Muscle cars with a conscience

[RitcheyRch]

http://news.com.com/2300-11389_3-6174150-1.html?part=rss&tag=6174150&subj=news
Global warming and worries about fuel prices have prompted demand for diesel cars and conversions.
This 1965 Chevy Impala was retrofitted to run on biodiesel for MTV's show Pimp My Ride. When it raced a Lamborghini in a quarter-mile drag race, the show's producers were afraid the Lamborghini would win by a large margin, but the biodiesel car dusted it.
The Impala was overhauled by Jonathan Goodwin, a biodiesel conversion specialist and founder of alternative energy start-up SAE Energy. Goodwin specializes in turning muscle cars into eco-friendly machines.

[Baja Big Dog]

http://news.com.com/2300-11389_3-6174150-1.html?part=rss&tag=6174150&subj=news
Global warming and worries about fuel prices have prompted demand for diesel cars and conversions.
This 1965 Chevy Impala was retrofitted to run on biodiesel for MTV's show Pimp My Ride. When it raced a Lamborghini in a quarter-mile drag race, the show's producers were afraid the Lamborghini would win by a large margin, but the biodiesel car dusted it.
The Impala was overhauled by Jonathan Goodwin, a biodiesel conversion specialist and founder of alternative energy start-up SAE Energy. Goodwin specializes in turning muscle cars into eco-friendly machines.
Doesnt it amaze you, the Lambo would beat the diesel, why, because the cars burns diesel, holy crap, speed is the result of what, horsepower and torque, what difference does it make how its made? Gotta love it.........:jawdrop:

[Racey]

If it's making enough power to beat a lambo that means it's burning an awful lot of fuel, which pretty much nulls the point that it's supposedley eco-friendly. and whether or not it's bio-diesel doesnt matter much either, they both produce CO2 which is what is causing all this 'Global Warming' they say.

[Coded-Dude]

KillaCycle Electrical Motorcycle reaches 155.87mph (http://www.i4u.com/article8454.html)
The KillaCycle electrical reached new record speeds of 155.87mph.
At a drag race in Chandler, Arizona, the electrical bike finished a quarter mile in 8.168s, breaking the old record of 8.801s held by Dennis Berube with an electric car for more than six years.
The KillaCycle is not the fastest electrical vehicle under the sun though. Take the Ohio State University Buckeye Bullet, which reach already 321mph back in 2004.
The bike is powered by 990 lithium ion cells from A123 Systems, a Massachusetts start-up that is also making batteries for General Motors.

[bigblockbill]

Bio Diesel is waaaay more friendly to the environment than #2 diesel. And #2 is waaay better than gas. Bio makes about 15% less power than #2 but heck, when it comes from used french fry oil that was going to be tossed anyway who cares. My truck at 6000+ lbs is as quick as most stock vettes and mustangs and can still get close to 18 mpg if not driving too sprited. Picture that in a car that is half its weight and hold on. I think its a great idea. Now how to shoe horn a motor like that into my 70 chevelle?

[Racey]

The only reason biodiesel is considered More friendly on CO2 emmisions is because the plants that the oil originally comes from are figured into the equation as to how much CO2 they use and convert to Oxygen. They do however contain less sulphur
and as for ethanol read this......
David Pimentel, an agricultural scientist at Cornell University and one of the foremost critics of ethanol, has conducted numerous cost analyses on ethanol production. He's made a name for himself mostly by driving the ethanol industry raving mad. From its very beginnings, when hoe enters soil, ethanol production has not changed much since the nineteenth century. Pimentel found that one acre of U.S. corn field yields about 7,110 pounds of corn, which in turn produces 328 gallons of ethanol. Setting aside the environmental implications (which are substantial), the financial costs already begin to mount. To plant, grow, and harvest the corn takes about 140 gallons of fossil fuel and costs about $347 per acre. According to Pimentel's analysis, even before the corn is converted to ethanol, the feedstock alone costs $0.69 per gallon of ethanol.
More damning, however, is that converting corn to ethanol requires about 99,119 BTUs to make one gallon, which has 77,000 BTUs of available energy. So about 29 percent more energy is required to produce a gallon of ethanol than is stored in that gallon in the first place. "That helps explain why fossil fuels (not ethanol) are used to produce ethanol," Pimentel says. "The growers and processors can't afford to burn ethanol to make ethanol. U.S. drivers couldn't afford it, either, if it weren't for government subsidies that artificially lower the price." All told, a gallon of ethanol costs $2.24 to produce, compared to $0.63 for a gallon of gasoline

[superdave013]

All I know is I made that turbo oil hose for PPE. :D
I had to do a run of special banjos to fit those duramax blocks.
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