Electric

iblive said:
It’s been awhile. Don’t think I’m running stock gap…. But I know I’m not running .080.

As for the rest. The kit came with cap, rotor, coil, weights, module and vacuum pot. What I did was take the stock ring that pops onto the OEM cap and the nubs on the HEI wires and modified it so it would fit around the bigger better faster coil. Doesn’t really do anything other than look stock to someone that doesn’t the work on these things.
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Like I say. Looks somewhat stock, which is what I was after. Also have an aluminum Edelbrock manifold that was not very aluminum looking when I got it used. Cleaned it up and painted it Chevy blue. Again. Unless you know what you’re looking at… appears stock. Sorry about the dust bunnies. Needs a good cleaning.

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iblive said:
Like I say. Looks somewhat stock, which is what I was after. Also have an aluminum Edelbrock manifold that was not very aluminum looking when I got it used. Cleaned it up and painted it Chevy blue. Again. Unless you know what you’re looking at… appears stock. Sorry about the dust bunnies. Needs a good cleaning.

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If you are not running HEI @,.080" with a zero resistance carbon button, you'd be just as well off with points.

Both points and HEI run around 20,000 volts on average when tested on a Kv analyzer.
 
Inspector #20 said:
If you are not running HEI @,.080" with a zero resistance carbon button, you'd be just as well off with points.

Both points and HEI run around 20,000 volts on average when tested on a Kv analyzer.
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Not standard coil. Got a tad more juice coming thru it than 20k.

And actually no. Don’t like messing with points.
 
Inspector #20 said:
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There was a short-lived vehicle line known as the Tama. And, it was made by a Japanese company called the Tokyo Electro Automobile Company, which later became part of Nissan. However, Nissan describes the range as being 65 km, not 200. It also had a top speed of 22 mph.

Here’s some more info from Nissan:

usa.nissannews.com

Long before LEAF: the 1947 Tama electric car

During the 1940s' switch to a peacetime economy, around 200 Tachikawa Aircraft employees moved to the newly established Tokyo Electro Automobile Co., Ltd., which embarked on the development of an electric car. One reason for this was the extreme shortage of gasoline at the time. In 1947, the...
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Session 5 said:
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I saw that too, on the Aliens Latest website.

Honestly, it doesn’t sound credible. For example, it makes the claim that electric cars “have been used for hundreds of years” from the end of the 18th to the mid 19th century.
 
EV's are everywhere around where I live. Near Seattle. There are more Tesla's on the road in my neighborhood than any other car. My wife and I are in agreement that gas powered has got to go, but EV's are not even remotely where they need to be, to phase out fossil fuels. One major issue is the lack of a proper power grid to handle millions of cars hooking up to a charging station. Rolling black outs are happening across the country in heat waves, people told not to use AC's in their homes because of the power drains, and the industry wants to add a million cars? Yeah, that doesn't spell disaster at all, does it?

I've seen reports of alternative batteries being developed using more readily available materials, especially moving away from Lithium. But right now those reports are just the beginning of discovery and not anywhere near proven to work in large applications, let alone close for production. I'll have to find the article I read, but it led me down a rabbit hole about a battery someone had developed using a very common element, but I can't remember what it was.
 

Wyoming Electric Vehicle Road Trip Nightmare: Man Spends 15 Hours to Travel 178 Miles Across State. The hated used car salesman has been eclipsed by the new EV car salesman. The last time we drove to Newport Beach it took about 7 hours, we can only imagine how long it would take in an electric car. Like several days?

“It was very difficult, O’Hashi told Cowboy State Daily. “For example, (it took) 15 hours to get from Cheyenne to Casper.”
O’Hashi found several major problems that EV dealers don’t talk about.
Firstly, he realized that if he is out on the open road and runs out of juice, he is forced to pay the expense of a tow truck to get him to the nearest charging station.
Secondly, since there are three types of charging stations all of which charge at different speeds, he was stuck waiting for widely varying numbers of hours. In fact, sometimes he would be forced to sit overnight, only to end up with enough battery power to drive a mere 40 miles.
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Session 5 said:
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It's just not planned out properly in the the moorons in the decision making parts of our life,they just dont get it..us people that work in the industy,,someone calling us to jump your telsa..umm... no...umm..never... hey it just plugs in the wall..Right..Right... no pollution. right...no energy usage ..right....no poison disposal cost..yep..think it out powers that be..or worse ye..us that consume it.. i feel bad for the family..dad passes away from cancer..daughter gets offered 400 for her 10k car...
 
These are just a few issues of going electric, but trust me when i say there will be many many more to come. The good thing is, it won't be happening to me. I will let the electric purists continue down their path..



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