| The soaring price of gas is putting a crunch on pretty | | | | Injection Enhancer. |
| much any blue collar guy lately and has a lot of us | | | | The Map Sensor Enhancer allows you to manually |
| becoming very interested in alternative fuels. There | | | | adjust the voltage reading between the Map sensor |
| was time not very long ago that I was not happy | | | | and the ECU. It is a fairly simple circuit with a couple |
| unless my truck had two fuel tanks and enough | | | | of potentiometers, switches, and resistors. If you |
| power to pull down a house. Now a moped is looking | | | | have a little electrical experience and can read a |
| pretty good and I don't even think about picking on | | | | schematic then this thing is not a big deal to make. |
| people for riding them anymore. | | | | Using one of these enhancers allows you to manually |
| One of the most popular gas saving techniques out | | | | lean out your fuel mixture. |
| there right now is the Water For Gas system where | | | | While I see why this is needed I would recommend |
| you build your own HHO system. I started trying this | | | | that it should only be installed on a vehicle where the |
| system out a few weeks ago and so far I am happy | | | | driver knows something about engines. There are |
| with the progress I have made. | | | | quite a few people driving around that have no |
| The first thing that I built was one of the HHO | | | | business being in control of the fuel to air ratio for |
| electrolyzers which was not very hard but it does | | | | their vehicle. It is also important that the HHO |
| require some mechanical know how. If you are the | | | | generator is running when this is used. The water |
| type guy that works on your car yourself then it | | | | vapor that is produced after burning the HHO gas |
| should be no problem for you to build. Pretty much | | | | has a cooling effect on the engine and exhaust |
| their whole target audience for the build it yourself | | | | system. If you lean out the fuel and do not have the |
| HHO products are the blue collar guys that are used | | | | additional cooling then you could do serious damage |
| to working with their hands and have some | | | | to your engine or exhaust. The major reason that I |
| mechanical know how. | | | | thing the driver should know something about what |
| Installing the Electrolyzer was even easier than | | | | they are doing. |
| building it. Hook up a vacuum line and a few wires | | | | The EFIE device is a bit more complex animal. It |
| and you are done. I did add in a relay so that I could | | | | involves a circuit board containing diodes, capacitors, |
| actually power the generator straight from the | | | | resistors, pnp switches, and integrated circuits. I was |
| battery. You just need to find a wire that is only hot | | | | going to try and build one but radio shack did not |
| when the engine is running and use that to power | | | | carry the IC that I needed for it and I have not |
| your relay. | | | | bought the stuff that I need online yet. From looking |
| I did not really time myself but after I had all of the | | | | at the schematic though you will need a fair amount |
| parts together it probably took about three hours for | | | | of electronic experience to tackle this job. |
| me to put the HHO generator together. It took more | | | | The EFIE is there to perform the same function as |
| time running around town finding all of the parts than | | | | the Map Sensor Enhancer, which is to lean out the |
| what it took to assemble it. There is also a variety of | | | | fuel mixture, but this device ties in with the O2 |
| different conductors that you can use to make the | | | | sensors instead of the Map. I have not installed one |
| plates out of. Stainless steel wire or plates works | | | | of these myself yet but the installation is very basic, |
| pretty well and is what I use but there are also | | | | just a few splices. It is building the thing yourself that |
| designs that are using titanium and copper. | | | | would get complicated. |
| With the fuel injected vehicles you also need | | | | That pretty much covers the major components of |
| something to lean out your fuel mixture so that you | | | | the Water for Gas HHO System although there are a |
| will actually save gas. There are two ways of doing | | | | few smaller items such as PCV valve enhancers and |
| this that I know of. The first one is a Map Sensor | | | | fuel heaters that they recommend. |
| Enhancer and the second is the EFIE, Electronic Fuel | | | | |