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  1.  @garyallsopp6369  When you cake cattails, which are soaking up Co2 every day, cleaning water at the same time as they love the nitrates that can be in it, then turn them into ethanol using methane to run the stills and any generators you might need, you can have a 'carbon neutral' vehicle rather easily if that concerns you. The Co2 used is already here on the surface where the plants utilize it, making methane is simple, as everything releases methane when it decomposes, might as well capture it and use it. When you burn ethanol or methane it only releases Co2 and water. You can have your generator exhaust go into a greenhouse and the plants will grow faster, use less water, and produce more food with the increase of Co2. Gasoline is going to emit a lot more stuff, Co, Nox, particulate carbon, all kinds of nasty bits. An EV is simply moving all of that to a power plant that is usually run on coal. I got into making ethanol because paying $5 for 87 octane was not something I enjoyed. I like to drive muscle cars with big engines. In order to save money so I can spend it on car parts rather than energy, I looked into alternative fuels. Methanol is lots of problems and its difficult to produce, highly toxic and detrimental to vehicles, lots of maintenance with methanol. Hydrogen is energy intensive to produce, difficult to keep contained, and it has severely reduced range and power. Methane is slightly better than hydrogen because its easy and cheap to produce, but lacks range and power. Both hydrogen and methane are best utilized in stationary power production, like running generators. EV was hideously expensive with a very short range. Ethanol is easy to produce from any starch or sugar, the byproducts can be used extensively to produce more food and fuel, and you can build wild engines with very high compression and run them on home made ethanol, which increases power and mileage. Literally anyone can produce ethanol and its easy to make cars run on it. If you eschew running pump gasoline entirely, you can raise the compression and get better mileage and power on ethanol than you can on gasoline... but you cannot run pump gas in an engine optimized for ethanol, it will rattle itself apart, usually flattening rod bearings or breaking pistons because of ping/knock. I get to drive my old muscle cars for dirt cheap now, since it costs me around 40 cents to make a gallon of ethanol.
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  2. Cool 60 four door, quite the nice drive around for the enjoyment of driving a sofa kind of car. One of my long time friends is big into 59s, he has an example of every body style/type offered in 59 except for one. His ElCamino has a 348 with Tri Power, three two barrel carbs on it. The chevy was the economy division of GM, so they had barely adequate engines, brakes, suspension etc. Some upgrades and they are a lot better. The Pontiac from 1958 onward was the performance division of GM, they handled, stopped and accelerated a lot better. I feel for you guys outside the US, its incredibly expensive for you to own our cars. Importing parts was challenging 34 years ago when I was stationed in Germany, the internet has made it less cumbersome, but its still a problem. I can go buy a $500 Silverado or Sierra 4x4 2500 and yank the 6.0 out of it. Sell the good parts from the truck, and scrap the rest, leaving me with a good engine and transmission with a tidy profit. Thats what I did to put a 6.0 in my 1976 C10 pickup. With a cam swap and some headers, a 6.0 can easily make 500hp around 6500rpm. I have something like $2500 total in the swap for my C10. If I am spending $9000 on an engine, its going to be a rather serious Pontiac V8, and will make between 600 and 750hp/tq all under 6500rpm, these things make 500 to 600ftlbs from 3000rpm to 6000 real easy. Usually a low buck rebuild with all new internals and using the factory crankshaft will run me around $3000 and it will make over 500hp/tq. Like I said, its nice living in the USA and being able to do all the work yourself. For $15k I have an engine capable of 2000hp with 20psi... like is in my 1968 LeMans. As for the EV and emissions thing, I make ethanol from cattails and run my cars and old trucks on that. It only emits Co2 and water, very clean burning when you don't mix it with gasoline. My daily driver 1965 GTO has a 455 (7.4L) with 11.5:1 compression to take advantage of the ethanol fuel, it gets around 17mpg mixed city/highway driving, because a 65 GTO is not exactly known for being aerodynamically slippery... Also I tend to drive it somewhat 'spirited' as they say in Britain, when you have 550hp and nearly 600ftlbs under your foot, it can be intoxicating. The 65 GTO runs on ethanol, and has since 2018, the 70 GTO has a 13:1 455 in it and it has been on ethanol since 2007. It averaged 20mpg with me driving it, somewhat harshly.. it has better aero than the 65 does. I need to rebuild the suspension on the 70 and replace the wiring harness, 55 year old cars need things redone at some point. Since I make the fuel myself, its a very green process and my vehicles are neutral, if you're concerned about such things. Essentially my fuel is 190 proof moonshine, and vehicles run wonderfully on it. The cost of an EV conversion is what keeps me away from them. Also the fact that to make it to town and back from my home, most of them need recharged, and they can't be driven in winter because the batteries won't recharge if its too cold. You see the distances are much greater here in the US, the closet town to me is 20 miles west, the next closest is 25 miles east. With an EV on a cold day, you have to plan a trip between them and back very carefully and you might not make it. Then you have to drive 45mph to extend the range, while everyone else is going 65 to 70mph. An EV that can make the trip on a single charge is going to cost you over $80k here. I can rebuild lots of rusty junk for $80k. I go on 1000 mile road trips every summer, that is a 14 hour drive straight through in an ethanol or gas powered vehicle. Its a two or three day trip in an EV, waiting for it to charge and driving slower to extend the range. If you're pulling a trailer like I often do, the range is even shorter on the EV. I routinely make 2 hour drives around here to get parts and go to appointments. The USA is freakishly huge, and its difficult to wrap your head around it unless you travel across it yourself. We are different here, and yes we have roads with curves, hills, and all the fun stuff too. We have straight roads that are rarely traveled where we can enjoy high powered cars, not as nice as Bahn 3 and 5 where when I was stationed in Frankfurt, but we can open up our rides and go fast where I am from. Taking tiny European cars and sticking our V8s in them is a fun time for us. Like the AC Ace, the Opel GTs I am currently getting parts together to build into V8 powered monsters, and all sorts of other things. Anglia's are fun racecars as are Thames delivery vans that made it over here.. I kinda want to V8 a Trabant.. Too much power is almost enough for someone like me.
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