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turbodave16v
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Easy - fit EFI onto your small 4-stroke engines...

I've wondered about this for a long time - these engines always seem to be really nasty in what they throw out of the exhaust - but I didn't know that it was this bad:
"A lawn tractor emits the same mass of emissions in one hour as a small car would driving across the continental United States"

http://www.electrojet.org/faq.html



So, how hard would it be to put megasquirt onto a Briggs?

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Sorry to say My Herpes are no better


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Nah, you'd be better off doing something like this:

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Theres a guy on youtube that does this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeOj5l-nxRI

I think there is a turbo one somewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6agXwQp-MWo&feature=related

Edited by Jay#2 on 8th Jul, 2009.

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cant find the link atm but some american was going on about if you take into account the exotic parts that get used in a prius (battery cells etc) the emissions that are made producing them make them the worst car for emissions from the start and you can run a normal car for a coupple of years before it starts to get the upper hand.

dont know how much truth is in it but would make me happy if true *happy*


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I can only dream of the day I require a lawn "tractor" to cut the grass *laughing*.


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On 8th Jul, 2009 Jay#2 said:
Theres a guy on youtube that does this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeOj5l-nxRI

I think there is a turbo one somewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6agXwQp-MWo&feature=related


dont believe for one second that that makes usefull boost! lol but looks cool.

turbo 16v k-series 11.9@118.9 :)

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On 8th Jul, 2009 sid said:
cant find the link atm but some american was going on about if you take into account the exotic parts that get used in a prius (battery cells etc) the emissions that are made producing them make them the worst car for emissions from the start and you can run a normal car for a coupple of years before it starts to get the upper hand.

dont know how much truth is in it but would make me happy if true *happy*



I read an article in an engineering journal only a couple of weeks ago that reckoned this is the case. It had graphs and everything. I'll see if I can find it again... I still maintain it's "greener" to keep running my P-reg 1.6 Suzuki Thing than trade in for a car that's had to be manufactured from scratch.

Pottsy


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My Idiot company has just brought in the Prius as a company car choice..

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I'm really hoping that when ford (eventually) launch the fiesta here later this year, that folks realise you don't need a lame hybrid to be seen as being 'green'...

On 17th Nov, 2014 Tom Fenton said:
Sorry to say My Herpes are no better


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minimadmotorman's golf averages high 60's to the gallon. Much better than any ellectric POS!

Edited by apbellamy on 9th Jul, 2009.

On 11th Feb, 2015 robert said:
i tried putting soap on it , and heating it to brown , then slathered my new lube on it

*hehe!*

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