Variable Displacement V-10?
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Mountain Pass
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From: Greenfield,In
Originally Posted by beegeezy
Will this (the vd system), ever be available for hotrods? Can I just take the system off of a v8 and put it on another v8? Or am I just spinning my wheels?
Only a few 2005 models have a VDE system. It requires computer changes and soleniod operated valve train deactivating mechanisms.
My vehicle is a 2003 Excursion.
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Originally Posted by BareBones
By the way Krewat, I was once looking into CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) for use on a boat, and you can purchase compressors that would compress household natural gas into CNG.
A few years before I got my '01 SD, I checked out dual-fuel vehicles, and knew I could get a CNG compressor... oh well...
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From: Greenfield,In
Originally Posted by beegeezy
By "spinning my wheels", I meant thinking about something that wont work, lol. What I was evisioning doing was taking the vd system off of say a chrysler,and putting it on a 360. Would that work?
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CNG (Compressed Natural gas) would need to be compressed to either 2K psig or 4K psig for your vehicle to run it as required by the conversion.
We run them everyday on many different AF bases and I'd say don't do it.
The benifit isn't that it's cheaper or better mileage, it is that it burns with near zero emmisions.
When you figure in the performance drop when using it you're going to end up burning more than you car to. The last one I drove, '02 Chev 3/4 ton crew cab with auto trans, we had to fill it every 3-4 hours of use driving around base, equating to at least twice a day.
CNG sucks... if the oil companies in Alaska decide to switch to liquifying their NG from the N. Slope oil fields then we'll be getting somewhere. LNG has nearly the same BTU as unleaded and burns with the above mentioned near zero emissions.
The technic for producing LNG is not cheap as it hasn't been done on large scale yet, but rest asured the product is available and I bet something will come of it...
Again all IMO but I'll back it up with my own experiences of 17yrs as a fuels specialist in the USAF.
Chaz
We run them everyday on many different AF bases and I'd say don't do it.
The benifit isn't that it's cheaper or better mileage, it is that it burns with near zero emmisions.
When you figure in the performance drop when using it you're going to end up burning more than you car to. The last one I drove, '02 Chev 3/4 ton crew cab with auto trans, we had to fill it every 3-4 hours of use driving around base, equating to at least twice a day.
CNG sucks... if the oil companies in Alaska decide to switch to liquifying their NG from the N. Slope oil fields then we'll be getting somewhere. LNG has nearly the same BTU as unleaded and burns with the above mentioned near zero emissions.
The technic for producing LNG is not cheap as it hasn't been done on large scale yet, but rest asured the product is available and I bet something will come of it...
Again all IMO but I'll back it up with my own experiences of 17yrs as a fuels specialist in the USAF.
Chaz
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