UPDATED May 27th, 2010
HHO Suburban
This 1975 GMC Suburban is getting an alternative fuel upgrade. It came with a 350 V-8 motor, 350 Turbo Transmission, and zero emissions equipment. HHO and Propane work well on vehicles without computers. There is a lot of HHO and Oxyhydrogen information on the new webpage, which will open in 2 minutes.
This thing is heavy duty, Doc. The top rack sold me.
Snowflake (Brick 2.0) has the HHO Generator and accessories installed and operational. The generator is a high-quality unit, scored from the bay. Hopefully, it will make an improvement before I can add more generators to make a "bank" of them. If you connect them in series, you get more fuel to offset the leaning back of the gasoline. As far as I know, HHO cannot run a car on it's own due to the restrictions on power consumption versus HHO gas output.
Here is the main HHO generator, or Brown's Gas generator:
The generator produces HHO gas that goes into a "bubbler", which resembles a washer fluid tank. The bubbler is also called a "scrubber", which reminds me of something on a space shuttle. I am not intimate with the chemical changes, but (theoretically) the HHO changes while going through the water, and also prevents raw water from reaching the engine. Follow all of that with an in-line flashback arrestor, then run the output to the air intake...
This HHO project is Bang for the Buck, so the cheaper I can get away with this conversion, the better. As the following pictures will no doubt prove. My use of duct tape has been minimal.
This is the main setup, with the generator on the right, in the extra battery tray. This setup is on the driver's side fender. The bubbler, which looks a lot like the wiper fluid reservoir, is on the left.
This is the connection from the bubbler to the carburetor. It goes through a flashback arrestor.
And she RUNS GREAT. This is the "warp core" in action. The first is uncharged, the second is charged and in process, and the third is full charge.
After I modded the carb (metering rods) and leaned the idle screws back out...it runs like a race car. I am...so far...a fan of HHO big time. Haven't put the truck on enough miles for an MPG study, but it did a lot of idling and driving for only an 1/8 of a tank (which should be 1/2 by now). Went to downtown, ran some errands, came back, tinkered on it, and it barely comes off of full. Nice.
After running it for one full tank of gas, I removed the warp core and inspected it. I found a layer of brown soot at the bottom of the container...
It turns out the carburetor vacuum was sucking dust into the HHO reaction chamber, and collecting at the bottom. It now has a tiny blue filter. I don't know if you can see the picture, but it is a layer about two inches thick at the bottom. So, I took the unit apart and gave it a new set of 316 stainless steel plates, set up to draw minimum amps with maximum yeild.
And with the charge, producing bubbles for the first time. Once they broke in, they started bubbling really well (more than a glass of soda).
Stay tuned!
So, here is my conclusion so far: HHO on it's own may not be able to run a car, Hydrogen surely can. I don't have enough cells to produce large amounts of the HHO gas, but I do have enough to offset predetonation when I lean the carb back, and the excessive lean condition also does not heat the motor up. The HHO seems to take up the slack of a lean condition. If I had six of the generators that I do, it would be time for a metered Propane/Gas carb conversion, because I would not be able to lean it far enough back to accommodate so much fuel.
Theoretically.
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