Back in the late 60s, I went to a state fair and this guy was selling a device that went into the distributor cap coil wire hole. It was supposed to increase the secondary voltage of the coil to make the spark hotter and that would increase fuel mileage. Of course, it didn't work. I also remember reading something about a revolutionary carburetor that would increase mileage to about 50 mpg. There were all kinds of gimmick devices advertised in the back pages of Popular Science and Mechanics Magazines including X-ray glasses. lol I hope you show more videos on these. Thanks for the video.
@ballinator
3 ай бұрын
Thanks! I'm going to be keeping an eye out for more devices like that in the future.
@charleshaggard4341
3 ай бұрын
@@bigdog4173 So true. Most people didn't really keep up with or know how to calculate gas mileage. Unless you filled the tank to the same level each time, you wouldn't know for sure.
@jeffhill3681
2 ай бұрын
The coil wire device was just a additional gap, making the coil work harder. It had to produce more voltage to jump the extra gap, just not in the cylinder where it would do something. Thus the advertising did not lie, much.
@gustavgnoettgen
3 ай бұрын
The most important thing is that it looks gorgeous, with the glass.
@ballinator
3 ай бұрын
Yeah. If I had a '50's era car, I'd install it just for the looks.
@pauljanssen7594
3 ай бұрын
I used all these type of things on all my gasoline cars with carburetors it saved me a lot of money on gas. I would turn it down to where when I was passing somebody it won't bog out before I was able to pass somebody.
@fastbusiness
3 ай бұрын
There have been a boatload of gimmicks to increase mileage, power, economy, etc. for cars over the years. One I recall was supposed to increase mileage by using this magnetic device that went around the fuel line before the carb. I think they claimed that it "aligned the molecules" or something like that and made the gasoline burn more completely. There have been some others too. Water injectors and devices that "atomize" the fuel for better combustion, and on and on.
@ballinator
3 ай бұрын
I think I have one of those magnet things around here. I'll have to see if I can find it.
@jeffhill3681
2 ай бұрын
At 3.5 lbs regulator would lower the fuel in the carburetor bowl and lean out the fuel mixture, potentially saving fuel as carbs tended to be slightly rich at speed. naturally this would also help a high or heavy float. The 'one size fits all' approach sold as most people considered carburetors as unknowable magic.
@ballinator
2 ай бұрын
I'm curious if it would actually lean out the mixture, since that's a function of the jet size. If it lowered it too much, so the float bowl would run out of a fuel before it could be re-filled, it could cause the engine to run fine for a while and then stall out. I've seen that happen on small engines with misadjusted floats.
@jeffhill3681
2 ай бұрын
@@ballinator Correct, possible to run out of fuel on hard acceleration and/or uphill with the reduced fuel flow. Probably OK for most pedestrian operation though. Low level in fuel bowl makes it harder to pull fuel up to the booster, artificial way to lean all functions of the carburetor. Could help in city driving, accelerator pump to cover initial acceleration lean out and less rich on coast up to the next stop.
@ballinator
2 ай бұрын
@@jeffhill3681 Interesting.
@samjohnson1061
3 ай бұрын
I think that J C Whitney sold them back in the day.
@ballinator
3 ай бұрын
Probably. Seems like something they would have carried.
@RandyJurgens
3 ай бұрын
That's every cool you come with lots of interesting things. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to more videos.👍👍👍🔧🔧🪛🪛
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