More pics of the Scorpion here...http://www.statesman.com/ap/mediahub/media/slideshow/index.jsp?tId=110196

Ronn Motor shows off gas and hydrogen powered sports carHorseshoe Bay-based company wanted to create an environmentally friendly car to compete with Ferrari and Lamborghini.
By Simmi Aujla

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF


Wednesday, June 04, 2008

The founders of the Ronn Motor Co. showed off the company's gas-and-hydrogen-powered sports car in downtown Austin on Tuesday.

Ronn Maxwell, the company's chief executive and co-founder, and Adrian Pylypec, a vice president and fellow co-founder, explained the workings of the Scorpion, a sports car that would run on a mixture of gasoline and water, to a small group at the Four Seasons hotel. The car's core, without its shell, was also displayed.

The year-old Horseshoe Bay-based company is taking orders for the car, which will cost about $150,000 and is scheduled to be ready for customers in December.

Acura supplies the company with the car's engine and transmission, and Florida hydrogen systems company Hydrorunner Inc. designed the hydrogen unit.

Ronn's founders said they hope to create a car that competes with the quality of Ferraris and Lamborghinis. But they also want to make a product that will get better gas mileage than those cars and damage the environment less.

That's where the water comes in. A unit on the back of the car splits water molecules and mixes the hydrogen with gasoline in a combination of 40 percent hydrogen and 60 percent gasoline, Maxwell said. And although the car still needs gasoline, the hydrogen consumes the carbon waste, which reduces emissions.

A 1½-gallon tank of water on the back of the car powers the vehicle, along with gasoline, for 5,000 miles, Maxwell said.

The gasoline-hydrogen combination will give the car at least 40 miles per gallon on the highway, compared with 16 mpg for the 2008 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti and 17 mpg for the 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo coupe.

The Scorpion will have a custom race-designed chrome moly chassis, four-wheel disc brakes, 12-inch cross-drilled rotors and polished Wilwood Engineering calipers, a news release said.

The high gas mileage and low emissions are an "added benefit," Maxwell said.

The 300-horsepower car was so named because it carries its engine on the back of the car, as a scorpion carries its stinger, and because "scorpions seem to be quite prevalent in this area," Maxwell said.

Some California car companies, such as Tesla Motors Inc. and Fisker Automotive Inc., also sell environmentally friendly sports cars, said Pylypec, who worked at Dell Inc. as a regional sales manager.

But Michael Marks, executive director of the Austin Automobile Dealers Association, said he didn't know of any similar companies in Texas.

HHO enhanced Toyota REVO 2L Diesel

Perhaps the more bigger challenge is to prove that HHO inducement will work on a Diesel.

Theoretically, it will. It's just a matter of making a good hardware and the right installation set up is crucial.

Firstly, all Diesels have fixed gears in their injection pump, and they will always deliver a fixed amount of fuel. Therefore, we cannot change this unless we dyno tune it and change our injection system...

In a diesel - ignition is achieved with a hot air compression, the compression n a 2L is thermally charged. The moment the piston after sucking air will reach the top dead center TDC position, the air is already compressed and becomes warm at this point... it is during this condition when the injectors squirt fuel which is then ignited at the same time. Therefore, We cannot actually mix HHO with the Diesel fuel. How on earth can we induce HHO with the fuel?. I think this is a stupid question.

HHO is already induced in the air that we compress. Mind you, Hydrogen has a higher ignition point, and only the ignition of the slow burning fuel like diesel will ignite it.

As I keep reiterating - getting the best of both worlds. The moment diesel fuel ignites, it will also ignite the the Hydrogen enriched compressed air; since Hydrogen ignites and burns at the speed of Mach 7. This quick burning trait is what we are all after.

There are those who promote Water Injection... that definitely works too! It's like throwing water over an enflamed pan full of oil - I wouldn't try this if I were you.

But HHO is the higher state of matter in its raw form with regards to water. A liter of water is the compressed state of thousands of liters of Hydrogen Gas volume in it's stable form. When water changes state due to evaporation, it becomes vapor or mist... these are tiny water droplets that float in the air. When we go much further, these droplets of water can still be divided into smaller droplets, if we can do this, then this is the best form of water to inject or induce in our engines since vapor is what is needed for a good combustion.

In an electrolyser, water is divided into it's atomic size... and since water is composed of Hydrogen and Oxygen, they are separated in the form of an invisible gas. Hydrogen having the lightest atomic weight among all molecules or atoms can easily escape our senses since this is inert. The only fastest sense that we can use in capturing the consciousness that there is hydrogen gas present - is probably our sense of imagination. Unless we have H2 sensors around. But the best way to know if you have hydrogen is also to light it up. I have too much respect for hydrogen gas that I would not dare lighting it up anymore - I have seen it's power and it's damaging effect. Nobody wants too much of anything... especially hydrogen.

Super 7 in the REVO is actually a balanced electrolyser... it doesnt produce more than what is needed to enrich the air. Did you know that only 1 part of hydrogen is needed to 95 parts of air and fuel in order to make a good combustion?.

Hydrogen is not the energy per se that we need to keep our engines' efficiency high. It is the effects it does to our SLOW Burning fuel. We are merely making it Burn a little quicker.

This is where we get our mileage increase.

My Automotive Engineer Assistant from India always tell me, Performance is directly proportional to Economy.

With the REVO, the challenge is to make the idling speed suck more HHO ... we are also witnessing a weak vacuum in idling. I believe we need a check valve from the bubbler to the intake port.

I hate writing what my hands cannot do... there are more innovations that can be made but I would rather be in a real workshop with a pen and paper and coffee and an access to a table vise, drill press, lathe machine, jig saw and welding machine and bender rather than waste my time in front of a laptop.

So much time is already wasted in front of the computer... the need for a hands-on development is more important.

Going back to this REVO in the video, the owner says that the improvement is probably psychological. Perhaps yes, perhaps no. Nothing is farther than the truth. I would keep my opinions until a Dyno Testing is done.

Nothing is impossible... we are only limited to where our imaginations will take us. It's not your money that will tell who you are, I dont give a shit if you own the whole world. I hate hearing name drops too... since I dont idolize anyone. So People should realize that I dont care who you know or what you think.

Some theorists say it's not what I think or what we think that matters... it's what they think (the powers that be).

You know what I think... this is the biggest Bullshit in this world. This is precisely what those "animated" powers that be wants you all to think. The truth is -it is what you think that matters.

We are all brainwashed to be their slaves... we are all trapped in a grid of power, control and management.

We just have to live accordingly and be aware of it.

I will keep you posted.

Toyota Corrolla with Hyper 7

Last week, I have installed an experimental prototype Hydrogen only generator design on a Toyota Corolla.

It is unit 001... it hasn't been tested ever on any vehicle, but we installed it anyway.

The basic trait of this unit is that it is a slow reactor... but it is a more stable reactor. Unlike the Super 7 in many ways, it does not produce HHO gas faster nor obviously... but it produce more quality Hydrogen internally. The reactor by itself does not push the Hydrogen gas outward , but sort of push them inside at the center. The way to get there hydrogen gas outis be means of vacuum. It also has an Oxygen output port which is directed to only released O2 back to the atmosphere, it is not good to connect this inside the cabin as what other Hydrogen Generator sites are proposing - read Chromium Hexavalent warnings.

Since this Hyper 7 is more of a passive design intended to be used for EFI's on modern cars; it will also work well with older car models.

The immediate results where as follows:

1. Immediate engine smoothness
2. Immediate absence of smoke during revolutions or idle
3. Immediate increase in engine power, torque
4. Immediate increase in acceleration rates
5. Fuel savings by 30 to 40% gained from combined city and highway driving
6. Immediate smile generated on owner driving it
7. Main Module doesn't build up heat immediately nor overtime

This module is also so minimalistic:

The system only has 2 major sets; the Main Electrolyser and the Bubbler

The Electrolyser is connected to the electrical via a fuse box rated at 20AMP which is connected to an ignition line. This eliminated the need to have it's own line, since it is only turned on autmatically only when the engine is running and not before which is very dangerous. The output gas port for Hydrogen which is located normally at the topmost section is conencted to the bubbler... without any one way check or gate valves or even flashback arresters. I have observed closely on how these devices or add ons actually do not work. Moreover, they only restrict airflow and the system according to my experience - should be free flowing.

Moreover, a one way valve allows gas to enter one way and not allow it to come back if needed. This is not really desireable but it's not really dangerous nor a cause of alarm. Since we don't want pure water to come inside the engine, we only want the gas to come into it, but having a locking valve will restrict backflow to happen, and backflow is actually needed in this case.

Should a freak accident occurs and a flashback happens... our bubbler is specifically designed to handle it flexibly, like how an aikido master handles the strength of its opponent against himself, the bubbler courses the flash explosion out of the system through the weakest spot which is the snap-on Cap. This is the reason why we use snap on cap and not threaded caps. Since energy follows the path of less resistance. In this case, the implosion or explosion inside the manifold is a freak event and treating it like any other energy, we need to allow it to pass where there will be less or no damage at all, this is called in otehr words a passive/active design... in laymans words - Clever.

Unlike other systems, you will be seeing flashback arresters and one way gate valves... in my opinion, these things dont work with a very fast burning gas... Hydrogen burns faster than the valve can shut its opening. (Trust me! I've seen how these things fail in my early experiments; thats why I dont use them any more, besides, The Bubbler already functions efficiently all of these roles.)

To sum it all up; THe Hyper 7 design works on this 1999/2000 Corolla and driving it felt like it's been nitrosed. A simple tap on the pedal can move the car to speeds where more pedal pressure was needed before.

More data to follow.

Mitsubishi Lancer with Super 7 HHydrO

An account of the latest experience in driving this battered Mitsubishi Lancer is this morning.

For the past weeks, this car has been tested and driven by more than 4 drivers and I haven't got the chance to really feel it till yesterday.

When I checked the electrolyser inside... it was nearly empty and the brownish muck "results of initial conditioning" are all underneath. since this unit wasn't really conditioned and it was immediately installed right away. I also noticed that the PVC is somewhat deformed and I later found out, there is a leak in it as well as the bubbler.

I changed the unit with another Super 7 which was already pre-conditioned. Installed also a newer bubbler and closed the pressure relief breather and filler port hole yesterday.

I drove this car more than 60 kilometers yesterday in heavy city traffic. It was impossible not to feel the power of this car whenever the traffic moves faster. With the gas pedal nearly 1/3 to the floor, the car would go up to 100kph on 3rd gear. But I did this only a few times since I needed to be agile in beating the traffic, otherwise, we / my companion and I will be stuck in traffic for long.

When we had the chance to be in the highway... the car seem to love cruising at higher speeds with only a light pressure on the pedal... and for most times, only a tap on the pedal is more than enough.

My companion was also amazed with the performance, he said it feels like the car has been Nitrosed. But one thing is peculiar, we are getting some speed without hearing the engine screaming or suffering from load.

We installed a Hyper 7 on a Corolla yesterday for testing... this Corolla immediately manifested improvements... The Hyper 7 is a newer design and it has 2 outlet ports... one for Hydrogen and 1 for Oxygen alone, this unit is intended for EFI's but will work just as well with carbureted or diesel engines.

As for Mileage Gains, the total km covered is already about 290km... and the tank level is below 1/4. There might be a need to adjust the carburetor air correction screw... but this is bit difficult to do with this model since the screw is somewhat hidden and dismantling the carburator attachments is necessary in order to do the job.

Stay tuned for the feedbacks on the Toyota REVO diesel and the Toyota Corolla.