Florida B.S. Thread

Nice!
while they're off the truck, you might as well slap a fresh coat of paint on them for a little rest protection

ah, that's right. good call on the stock size for mileage. you'll like how they handle on the road. nice and sticky

and the icing on the cake......were you on the clock at hooters?

what do you do btw?

 

oh man i am beat.

yea i was on the clock, stayed there for almost 2 hours. i work in lawn care. not the best job but hey til i get my degree in engineering it works.

 

I've got a good 160+ mile drive home so i'll be able to get a good test in

 

oh great. not we have to deal with two of you guys around here

 

nice. they make a little noise when you hit cracks in the road and potholes, but they absorb nice and are quite comfortable for what i'd considder a slightly more agressive all terrain

 

Yea that's the plan.
Just got wait on them since they are coming from Canada and their post office was on strike.

 

i'm just ready to get these shitty stock tires off

 

Painting sliders sucks! way too many different angles to cover

 

when you get sliders or are you just painting them?

 

While at Twisted Metal Offroad today I saw this hummer running a system called the fuel gieni. Its supposed get gas engines like 20-30% better gas in the city and 30-50% on the highway. I am going back tomorrow to talk to the head fabricator about the bumper quotes and sliders but also to get a quote on the fuel gienie and what it involves. Of course I am not going to get it installed asap but I'd like to learn what is involved and if I can get the gaines they promise I'd be down for sure. The H1 at there shop daily drives on 38"s and gets good mpgs. I'll come back tomorow with some actually facts and prices etc. But again my main concern at this point is bumpers after lift and tires.

 

sliders came in while i was on vacation a week ago. spent the last two evenings weldeing them together. put a couple coats on last night and one more this morning. painted everything but the legs, and i'll weld them to the truck tonight

if they say it will work, get it in wrighting that they will uninstal it at no charge and refund your money if it doesn't reach X% gains. i doubt you'll see even a 5% increase in either categorey.

however.....I'm excited about your bumpers. one-off stuff is alway cool to see.

 

oh god....i didn't look it up, i just assumed you were talking about a high-end programmer similar to the apr-x1. yeah, don't even ask about that thing. it serves the same purpose as a throttlebody spacer.....which is nothing

 

No its an actual system that fuel genie Ben pulled up is the wrong one... I dont have info on it but I am going up there later. It is a type of gas that is shot into the intake and helps better mpgs.

 

ah, i see. search around the performance and tuning section. the purpose of that is to lower the intake temperature. there are a couple different types of gas you can use for that. as far as i've seen though, the guys that do this are doing it for power, not MPG (remember, power is expensive), and if you were to get a mileage increase at all, it would be small, and take forever to pay for itsself.

i would not use it, but i'm curious to see what the system involves.

 

It's probably a Hydrogen assist system

 

So in a system like that, Hydrogen would be used to lower the temperature of the intake as Colin said?

 

Mhmm how to explain this cause as he was talking about it I was looking on tw at bumpers I want mine to look at.

Well this hydrogen runs thru these electrocharged plates then turns into a gas and shoots into the intake and then that provides spark along with the air from the intake wich then makes your truck burn cleaner and burn more efficient.

He said its 1,500.oo otd and he is gettin 4mpgs up on his f250 on like 37"s+ mud grapplers. So who knows. 1,500 is too rich for me but he quoted me 2k front rear and sliders all dom and all line-xed. So I will prolly go with that.

 

I took some pics up there but cant get them up here for some reason my phone is being tarded. They did have a little rock section to test your shit and it was way not for stock trucks pretty neat tho. One day... one day...

 

correct.

50% of the work i do at my job is in regards to Hydrogen storage, pipeing, transportation, and use as a method to create usable energy, so i apologize if this turns into a long post.

the downlow on why why i think he's plling your chain is that hydrogen is one of the hardest elements to contain and use. on an atomic level, the hydrogen atoms are so small that they will escape through the holes in just about any material. the tanks we have to use to contain hydrogen on the navy ships have 2-3 components (layers).

the inner layer is an extremely dense polymer that has such small gaps enbetween it's mlecules that it can contain the hydrogen.

to be stored in efficient quantities, hydrogen has to be either cryogenically cooled to a liquid form, or extremely presurized (32,000 psi is normal). the cryogenic method is extremely expensive, so most jsut pressurize it. however, to hold 32,000 psi, that polymer has to be encased in a carbon fiber tank. <<<that is the minimum tank setup (2 layers) but since carbon fiber is so bad with impact, the carbon tank is usually covered in either stainless steel, a foam sleeve, or both. bottom line is that it's expensive to buy just a tank
here's a picture of a very basic tank and valve.


the other problems are that since it will flow right through just abotu any material, if you simply inject it into the intake, little to no hydrogen will make it into the actual cylenders of the engine andaid combustion. that's why i'm inclined to say that it is only for cooling purposes (which releasing hydrogen from 30k psi to atmospheric pressure will do quite well).

in order to utilize it's explosive properties, you'd essendially have to go with a direct injection setup. however, that also causes problems. "Hydrogen Embrittlement" is one of our biggest concerns when we hydrogen is used or transported on our ships. when hydrogen contacts metal, though it will flow right through it fairly easily, in the process it makes the metal brittle and pront to fracture. i don't think anyone would enjoy a piston or engine block cracking in two.


so that's why i think the system is flawed for the purpose it's intended to serve. i also doubt that they are talking about using pure hydrogen gas, in which case you loose some of the benefit because it doesn't contain as much energy per unit area, and is also harder to compress.