Here's a carb for your big block!

[ramit]

Woah!  You lost me at thermodynamically.

[gsmopar]

It's not a myth, but that's not the good model.  I have one on my charger.  It gets 78mpg on a 500hp 440 and runs off of a mix of water and vinegar.  Let me know if you're interested, I may have another one tucked back in the garage somewhere$$$$   

[Johnny SixPack]

It's not a myth, but that's not the good model.  I have one on my charger.  It gets 78mpg on a 500hp 440 and runs off of a mix of water and vinegar.  Let me know if you're interested, I may have another one tucked back in the garage somewhere$$$$   

Hey!

I think my mother's uncle's 2nd wife's brother-in-law's step-son's 3rd cousin knew a guy who made something like that.

Except his was for a high efficiency commode.

Maybe we're onto something here.

[Todd Wilson]

You want 30 mpg with a Charger?


4.  Forget the split-second electronic controls that Detroit likes so much, and just use a toggle switch to keep 4 of the cylinders off while you're on a road trip.  (A 496" motor that's cut in half is still 248 cubic inches.  Easily enough to cruise a Charger, even without reactivating the other 4 cylinders every time you hit the gas.)

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Voila!
Dodge Charger power whenever you want it, and Dodge Stratus mileage whenever you don't. 

(But you have to just blindly dive in with the tools on this.  Don't start trying to add up the price of doing all these mods & comparing fuel prices, or you'll decide you'd rather just burn the extra gas.  By a wide margin.)

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My 69 318 car gets 20-23mpg on the highway and has got 25mpg on one trip.

Fuel injection would help and maybe an OD would help also.  Your toggle switch on the ignition is a joke because you are still pumping fuel/air mixture into 4 dead cylinders with your idea.


Todd

[Mike DC]

Your toggle switch on the ignition is a joke because you are still pumping fuel/air mixture into 4 dead cylinders with your idea.

It's not a joke. 
Go back & read step #3 in my post before you say step #4 won't work.

I was talking about killing the fuel-injectors and the valvetrain on those cylinders.  That's what DCX is doing right now on their new Hemi, and what Caddilac did (more roughly, using a slightly different methods) in 1981.

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I'm not saying it would be a weekend-bolt-in deal by any stretch of the imagination.  But it would work.

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[HAZZARDJOHN]

My Impala with a 396 big block gets a consistant 23 mpg. I have had the odometer corrected and it is dead on. I can verify it with receipts cause no one believes me. I pretty much parked my truck in the summer and drove the Impala as the truck only gets 17 MPG

~HJ

[253862656971]

It's not a myth, but that's not the good model.  I have one on my charger.  It gets 78mpg on a 500hp 440 and runs off of a mix of water and vinegar.  Let me know if you're interested, I may have another one tucked back in the garage somewhere$$$$   

I'm curious how you're gonna get that Kingston side draft carb mounted to the charger and actually have it work.  Just getting the Kingston to function normally the way it's supposed to be used is a chore. 

BTW I haven't talked to my prof yet.  I'll let you guys know what I find out.