Comments by "Thump Er the Sweaty Fat Guy" (@SweatyFatGuy) on "They're actually doing it!" video.

@SterileNeutrino its not far fetched, its a feature on some cars after 2010, not all of them, but if someone managed to take off with your car, they can located it, shut it off, and lock the doors so the people in it cannot get out. The tech is already in EVs so they can be remotely governed, meaning it will not let you go faster than you are allowed, and it can be disabled remotely. Travel restrictions via GPS would be very easy. The new cars have built in GPS so they don't even need your phone. You could say I am into cars, except I like to build old cars. Doesn't mean I don't read about the new ones and the 'features' they have. There is a reason I won't own anything newer than the 2007 GMC crew cab 4x4 I swapped a bigger engine into. Its my tow rig I use to haul me and my dogs around while I move old muscle cars on my trailer. $400 truck with a bad transmission, and I put another $400 into it, and now its a driver. Most of what I own is older than 1979. If I want to blend in I take the 2000-07 trucks. The 70 Cuda isn't really a good car to drive if you want to be unnoticed, same with the 65 GTO to a lesser extent. Now those are very difficult and expensive to track, cannot be remotely disabled, but old muscle cars kinda stand out in traffic. I make ethanol from cattails to run my vehicles, started that in 2007 when gasoline was $5 a gallon the first time where I live. If the grid goes down, charging an EV will be challenging, several days with solar or wind unless you have a large capacity. Yeah, I have looked into it because I really like driving old GTOs and stuff. Ethanol was the easiest, least expensive, and it makes a lot more power than gasoline.
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@Pentti_Hilkuri I did.. besides it would quadruple my already expensive utility bill. My solution is to build very high compression engines, run them on home made ethanol (cattail/tree sap vodka), and they make lots of power, get better mileage than gasoline engines, and only emit CO2 and H2O.. but 'they' don't want us making our own fuel, they want to force us to buy theirs. Thats why the push for EV is going on.
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@epichouse534 oh no, they want them to work for them as gardeners, laborers, servants, etc. They do not see them as people they see them as a cheap resource they can exploit. They just won't admit that out loud... not yet anyway.
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@glennross85 built what, an electric car? No, can't afford them. Engines specifically to run ethanol, yeah, several of them and they get the same or better mileage with more power than the same size engine on gasoline. Its all about heat and the compression ratio, as well as where the engine makes most of its power. My daily driver 65 GTO has a 455 Pontiac in it, torque monster engines from 2000 to 5000rpm. It runs on E85 and E100, will not run long on pump gas, that stuff will flatten the upper connecting rod bearings at anything above idle. It gets 17mpg because the aero on a 65 GTO is atrocious. In the 70 GTO which has slightly better aero the same engine and trans got 20-21mpg. Not bad for a 50+ year old car using a carburetor and an engine designed in the early 1950s. The 70 GTO had a pump gas 455 in it from 1995 to 2010, best it did following a semi down I-40 across TN was 20, it usually got between 17 and 19 highway, around town it was a lot worse. The ethanol engine does that with mixed city and highway. If you are idling in gear, not moving at all, not holding the brake, and whack the throttle to the floor, that 455 will smoke the tires until you lift, no need to touch the brakes. The engine cost me $4100 to rebuild, and I used a crank kit as well as had the heads ported and milled to raise the compression to 13:1. Currently it has a different set of iron heads that have 11.5:1 because they were not milled, thats also why the 65 only gets 17. I am working on a couple other engines and vehicles, like a 3800 V6 Buick, for a ladder car similar to an Ariel Atom, and some 6.0 LS engines in trucks.
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@glennross85 you can run straight ethanol in a diesel if you ditch the injection since it won't be lubricated like it is with diesel, and figure out how to get a spark plug into the cylinder. The various head and chamber designs can be a problem. Then you run either a carb or EFI on it like any other spark ignition engine. Power is comparable to diesel, and the only thing you get for emissions is CO2 and H2O. You can run somewhere north of 26:1 compression with straight ethanol. If you add gasoline to it that drops fast. 16:1 works with E85 that is 80% + ethanol. I haven't put up a lot about ethanol, been busy with lots of other things. Its not my only focus, but with what I see coming for the rest of this winter and next year, the big project for next year is showing how to make it from cattails, tree sap, and coffee grounds. Just click my name it should take you to it.
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@supercellex4D indeed, forced induction on alcohol fuels is HELLA FUN. I have a blower for one of my engines next year, didn't get it all here in time to put it on and sort it out this year. It can go on the 461 that makes 550ish hp/600tq or the 505 which should be around 700hp/tq I only have one vintage vehicle that I run on pump gas, the 70 Cuda, because its compression is too low to really take advantage of it. Maybe when I am up to around 1000 gallons per year in production I will put the low compression engines on it too. It gets some, I like to run 30% in it sometimes to keep the fuel system good and clean. Compression engines are fun because they make more power everywhere for daily driving.
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@supercellex4D thats roughly where the power should be, could be more or a bit less. Didn't get it all together and running before winter showed up. Its the black 1968 LeMans on my channel. Its more of a 'no prep' car than a resto mod. It should be in the mid to low 9s in the quarter mile, maybe 8s with the blower. Not sure what that translate in 0-60, but it should stomp a mudhole in a Plaid and any super car out there. I have a lot of vehicles, its kinda what I do.
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@pavlekodak2147 you found out about the trim/option package where they truncated the name, thats cool man. I find history to be lots of fun to learn about, the history of cars is really fun to me, it speaks to the present. Technically mine is a clone, the guy in Texas who built it used all the right parts so you have a hard time telling its not a 70. I call it that to avoid confusion. Its the only clone I have, all the GTOs, Trans Ams, Formulas, and what not are real deal cars. The Cuda was left to me by my dad when he died back in 2020. I am more its caretaker than anything so there are no plans to sell it which means its clone status doesn't really matter. ;)
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