Me neither!!!!!!!!!!!

-Gary Burnette-

BOTH of you Rebels should bring some of that cornbread to Columbus. All we have up here is Bio-Diesel soy beans and ethanol.

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

What gets me is why we are using shelled corn to make ethanol.  We take a corn seed, pour the fertilizer to it (which takes fossil fuel to make and transport), grow a big green plant with wide leaves and maybe as much as 8 feet tall, with two ears of corn on it, then in the fall we shell only the grains off those ears and throw all the rest of the plant away.  Why can't we find a plant that we can use the whole plant to make ethanol?  South America uses sugar cane, but I don't think it grows well in our climate.  Surely we can develop a plant that will do the job more efficiently than corn.  Then Glen and Gary can still have their cornbread.

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"

30 years ago, or so, they did grow quite a bit of sugar cane in Sunny south Fla. I think the labor costs were somewhat higher than South America. Actually, for the first half of the last century we got most of our sugar from Cuba, Castro and friends stopped that. The mid section of Florida has a climate that works for sugar cane I gather.

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

John,

         My e-mail is down and your PM box is full. Tell Gordon AZ gets 57/58 bucks for the distributor.

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

I'll probably pick up a set of steel needles and seats the next time I'm at Summit. The fuel pump died today. No more Holley reds for me. So, Frank, that summit pump still going strong?



Can these run on shine? There's a lot of that around here.


Lawrenceville, GA

I'm going to try an Airtex E84070. It's an oem for '80 - '83 Ford 400 to 1100 series trucks with a 429. Some guys on the slick60s truck forum say it's a reliable pump. It's the same thing as the Carter and available through local parts stores. If that doesn't do it, then I'll give up on the electric pumps.


Lawrenceville, GA

Charlie,

        Sorry, missed that. The Holley pump in the truck is six or seven years old. I've had to redo the wiring a coule of times to clean up corrosion, but the pump's still Tickin' fine.

         The in tank pump in the red car is OK too. (Mustang-hi volume) from Summit, dunno who makes their pumps, but I've had zero problems with them. Also had good luck with Carter. Lotsa Holley problems, except the Ranger (?) 

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

Charlie - I think you're headed down the right road - daily drivers have different needs than the race cars. Home engineering a solid DD road vehicle is a different deal than something you don't jump in and drive every day.

Do you have it wired for a (minimum) oil pressure kill switch?

 
 Steve Metzger       Tucson, Arizona

Nope. It's quite dangerous in that respect at this time. But a pressure kill switch will be a part of the wire harness install. If you saw the rest of the harness, it really wouldn't make the truck much safer overall. I will probably do an inertia switch as well. I think that's what it's called - to shut off the fuel in the event of a collision.


Lawrenceville, GA