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What if we run out of vintage parts before we run out of petroleum?

What if we run out of petroleum before we run out of vintage parts?

Why they can make synthetic oil, but they cant make synthetic gas?

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I was wondering a similar thing a while ago.
What happens when people finally abolish the whole 2 stroke thing?? I race boats too, 4 strokes just don't do the trick.
Never thought of synthetic gas before, but why not?
 
If we run out of vintage parts before we run out of petroleum, we either machine our own, or we trade up to a vintage SRX. "Buy two, use one for spares."

If we run out of petroleum before we run out of vintage parts, we fatten up the jets and fill 'er up with Ethanol and get it started with a shot of something a bit hotter.

They can make synthetic gas: It's just that we usually call it "race fuel".
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Ever wonder why:

Front-wheel-drive sucks rocks for traction in the snow, yet non-car people seem to swear by it?

We can't run our vehicles on milk? It's cheaper than gasoline these days, by about ten cents per gallon.

If we invited the President of the United States to go on a free snowmobile trip, how many extra sleds would he need for his support staff?
 
"Front-wheel-drive sucks rocks for traction in the snow, yet non-car people seem to swear by it?" I grew up driving rear wheel cars in the 70's and don't understand your statement ? I too would like to know how synthetic gas is made ? Is it made from a renewable source ?
 
why

I wonder why its february and here in western N.Y. we have had little or no snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have rode only 4x. This sucks!!!!!
 
Actually, synthetic gas is made the same way that synthetic oil is made. It starts out from base petroleum stock, then the molecules are cracked and reformed into long-chain hydrocarbons. The most stable of the hydrocarbon molecules are when they get them to combine end-to-end into an octagon-shaped molecule.

Fuels are synthesized in similar fashion as the synthetic oil, then sold as specialty fuels such as race gas. Ordinary street gas generally goes through standard refining practices, and they can vary in their operating characteristics such as vapor pressure, knock resistance, detergents, and of course, octane.

Synthetic fuels, such as race fuel, are much more consistent from batch to batch in terms of their operating characteristics. There are dozens of different synthesized race fuels out there that are specialized for specific race environments such as Nextel circle track, IRL, CART, CHAMP, IMSA, Drag racing, etcetera.

Here's two examples of fuels that could fall within the definition of "synthetic". However fuel manufacturers dont call them synthetic, they call their process "formulated".

100 octane datasheet:
http://www.rockettbrand.com/technic...icationSheets/100eProductApplicationSheet.pdf

111 octane datasheet:
http://www.rockettbrand.com/technic...licationSheets/111ProductApplicationSheet.pdf

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Oh, in terms of front-wheel-drive: I always found that a RWD car, when placed in the hands of a capable driver, would generally go wherever a FWD car would go, especially if the car was equipped with some sand bags over the rear axle. RWD offers more control by enabling a driver to use both brakes and throttle for steering the vehicle. FWD simplifies the driving experience by removing some of the tools that the driver has available for getting out of (and into)trouble. However once you are in trouble in a FWD, the harder you turn, the straighter you go! It's probably why trucks became so popular in the great white north and outsold cars: RWD and AWD packages enable folks with more advanced driving skills to utilize them in deeper, slipperier road conditions.

It's probably no fluke that these days, even in Michigan, when there is a six-inch snowfall, they now close all the schools because no one can get out of their driveways. Back in the 70's your parents got you to school even though the differential housing was plowing a furrow in the road.
 
I try to teach people to not over react or fight the wheel when their FWD car starts spinning or pawing thru snow but, to just let it work and find their own path so, to speak.
 
Front wheels are for steering,
Rear wheels are for doing burn-outs!

I just cant get used to those little front wheel drive cars
squeeling the front tires when they drag race.

Still, "there's no replacement for displacement"
 
Anyway, back to the subject at hand:

Do you ever wonder:

Is there such a thing as a common sense muscle, and if so, how do we excercise it?

Ever wonder why it is that when a barrel of oil goes up a buck, a gallon of gas goes up thirty cents? Yet when a barrel of oil goes down a buck, gas only goes down a cent?

Ever wonder if gas is usually cheaper on Tuesdays than on Thursdays?
 
will anone ever figure out how to make sleds run on E-85. I mean why not it is renewable, andwe don't import it. E-85 and Klotz, what a pair. Maxdlx
 
E85 doesnt vaporize well at low temperatures so you'd need to aerosolize it with a high pressure injector, or else pre-heat the stuff and start out with a gasoline injector to get the process started.
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