Tech | May 16, 2010 | 30 comments

0-100 MPH in 4 Seconds. No Gasoline.

source: http://www.mpgomatic.com/2010/05/14/the-gasser-wild-cng-33-hot-rod/

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The Gasser '33 Hot Rod produces 650 horsepower and doesn't use a drop of gasoline. Instead, it runs on clean-burning domestically-sourced compressed natural gas. Captured on tape at the 2010 Alternative Fuels and Vehicles conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

http://www.mpgomatic.com/2010/05/14/the-gasser-wild-cng-33-hot-rod/
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30 comments // 0-100 MPH in 4 Seconds. No Gasoline. // Video

  • UtopianSky
  • Kurta
  • artemis6
  • MPGomatic
  • MPGomatic
  • Vierotchka
  • Wetdog
    • +1
      Wetdog  
    • Vierotchka:

      Actually---natural gas is safer than gasoline. It will only burn when it is between 5%-15% concentration. If released into the air, it rapidly dissipates---it is lighter than air. To be explosive, it must be trapped in a confined space with the right amount of air.

      Gasoline however, remains flammable as long as it is present. And you can't put out a gasoline fire with water. Gasoline floats on water.

      It can make a pretty good explosion under just the right conditions though.

    • 2 years ago
  • onemalefla
  • Wetdog
  • onemalefla
  • Wetdog
    • 0
      Wetdog  
    • onemalefla:

      "BULLSHIT"---------well, yes, as a matter of fact that is one source of methane.......LOL.

      I sort of doubt the claim too----it does not appear to be set up for drag racing.

      With the claimed output of 650 hp on the obviously very light frame and body----I don't doubt that it can probably melt the rubber soles on your sneakers.

    • 2 years ago
  • MPGomatic
    • 0
      MPGomatic  
    • onemalefla:

      The Ultima GTR is a production car. This is not. The builders know how to go fast in a straight line ... they've raced top fuel/alcohol dragsters and pro modified.

      I guess we'll just have to wait to see what it does on the drag strip. :)

    • 2 years ago
  • Wetdog
    • 0
      Wetdog  
    • MPGomatic:

      I would have expected to see a "rail" design to achieve that sort of speed/time.

      But, like you say, the only results that matter are what it does on the track.

      That why there are races.

    • 2 years ago
  • onemalefla
  • MPGomatic
    • 0
      MPGomatic  
    • onemalefla:

      Take a look at my YouTube channel. I shoot a lot of 0-60 MPH videos. It's all about getting the car to hook up. With 650 horsepower in a car this light and the proper suspension (and wheelie bars), the numbers aren't pie in the sky.

    • 2 years ago
  • onemalefla
  • MPGomatic
  • MPGomatic
  • Dmobile215
  • artemis6
  • Kurta
    • 0
      Kurta  

    • That's awesome. I'd much rather see the drivetrain in an older Skyline or STi though. Hell, I'd even put one in the ol' Legacy.

    • 2 years ago
  • CalgarC
  • Wetdog
    • +2
      Wetdog  

    • I forgot to mention---running on methane costs about 1/2 or less than it does to run petroleum.

      You can get twice as many races for your buck.

    • 2 years ago
  • MPGomatic
  • MPGomatic
  • UtopianSky
    • 0
      UtopianSky  
    • MPGomatic:

      but water is even cheeper and easier to obtain, and there are people working on water-powered cars.

      I don't see why were should attempt a whole infrastructure change to Natural Gas when it will be obsolete real soon.

    • 2 years ago
  • Wetdog
    • +5
      Wetdog  

    • Methane(natural gas)---besides being a fossil fuel, can be made out of any type of organic substance at all, even sewage and landfills. It is an inexpensive, low tech, natural process---we've been doing it for over 150 years. Biomethane is CH4--exactly the same methane as in fossil methane. The two can be mixed in any proportion and used in any application with no loss of performance whatever.

      CO2 captures heat in the atmosphere. It is a greenhouse effect gas. But CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas. Methane is also a naturally produced greenhouse effect gas.(GHG). But methane has 17X the heat capture ability that CO2 does. This means, if we produce methane that would have ordinarily gone into the atmosphere anyway---for instance, treating sewage, and we burn that methane, for instance in a '33 Ford Hot Rod----we are converting high GHG effect methane(CH4) into MUCH lower GHG effect CO2. Just a 6% mixture of biomethane, in fossil methane creates a neutral greenhouse warming effect on the atmosphere. Any methane mixture that contains more than 6% biomethane mixture will produce a negative heating effect on the atmosphere.
      This is the only means I have ever found in which we can actually cool the atmosphere. What is left over after methane is produced from sewage is compost. The highest quality, most nutrient rich dirt possible. Something else I think we could find a very good use for---and soon.

      I think we need to build lots of high performance hot rods that run on compressed natural gas. Fill them with as much biomethane as we can make---and then go out and drag race them all night.

      We should have plenty of sewage to work with. There are bound to be a lot of Big Oil executives who get very pissed off and start sh**ting bricks.

      Of coarse, we won't have any air pollution or global warming to get into arguments about any more----but maybe we can find some other way to occupy ourselves. Maybe we could bring back drive-in movies.

    • 2 years ago
  • zHellas
  • Wetdog
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      Wetdog  
    • zHellas:

      The normal way that all plants and animals have the energy to live, is that it comes from the sun. Plants take in CO2(carbon dioxide) and then use the energy in sunlight and water to change it into sugar, and give off oxygen. Animals eat the plants, which is how they get the energy from the sun stored in the plants as sugars, starches, oils and proteins. Food is just energy from the sun, stored by plants. Then, when animals use the sugars and starches to do work---they breath in the oxygen from the plants, and breathe out carbon dioxide---the plants breath in the CO2, store energy from the sun, and breath out oxygen----and the whole process has been going on for billions of years. It is the natural life cycle--or--carbon energy exchange cycle.

      GHG means greenhouse gas. CO2 is a greenhouse gas. This means that it absorbs infrared energy from the sun. You can not see infrared energy---but if you stand in the sun---you can feel it. There is carbon, and CO2 in your cells----they absorb the infrared energy from the sun and convert it to heat----you feel warm. Stand in the sun too long on a hot day---and you will heat up too much. Do it long enough, and it can kill you. The same thing is happening to the atmosphere, because we are making too much CO2 and releasing it into the atmosphere at too fast a rate. We are digging petroleum and coal out of the ground, then burning them and putting too much CO2 into the atmosphere too quickly. There are no plants to balance the scales by taking the CO2 out of the atmosphere. The CO2 is building up---and it is making the atmosphere warmer---just like standing in the sun can make you too hot.. Biofuels do not allow CO2 to build up in the atmosphere---because they are made from plants. When they are burned, the carbon that was in them goes back into the atmosphere where it was in the first place. It is impossible to raise the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere using biofuels, because, if plants are not taking the carbon out of the atmosphere, they are not alive. If the plants are not alive---you can not make biofuels---so you can not raise the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere over time.

      We can do anything that can be done with petroleum or coal with biofuels. We can use ethanol(alcohol, the same alcohol in beer or whiskey), we can use biodiesel(plant oils), or biomethane to do anything that can be done with petroleum. And we will not do any harm to the atmosphere.

      I just wanted people to know that we can protect the earth---not spill oil all over and kill everything it touches---strip mine the land---poison the air and the water---and make the atmosphere overheat. We can do everything we want to, including making and racing high performance hot rods---we can have our fun and excitement---and we can protect the earth, and even save money at the same time. If you can drive your hot rod twice as far on the same amount of money that petroleum costs----you have some money left over to hang some fuzzy dice on the rear view mirror.

      We don't even have to limit ourselves to using one fuel. We can easily build engines that use several different fuels---it is being done right now.

      If you want to see what ethanol can do as a fuel, watch the Indianapolis 500 race at the end of this month on Memorial Day. The fastest, most advanced race cars in the world---the Indy League Racing Circuit cars---all run on 100% ethanol. They have been running on alcohol fuel for almost 50 years. It is a better fuel than gasoline---it is also safer to use, and better for the earth.

    • 2 years ago
  • ThoughtNu
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