Thread: compressed air conversion

Perhaps you could stop at every service station who offers free air to top up on your journeys. seriously though, if I remember right, someone had alread developed an economical compressed air motor for forklifts and small infactory trucks, etc., and they showed this on a TV program a few years back.

yeah I know, I met the guy, its a good engine. I am talking cheap, fast conversion to get people around the local area for free. Keep the car the same, add compressed air and get a few clicks from a tank.

Valve timing may have to be changed because you need the inlet valve to open for most of the power stroke duration, you would also probably change to '2-stroke' operation.
Inlet valve opens, compressed air enters and pushes piston down, inlet closes, exhaust opens and expanded air is exhausted. Camshaft speed would have to be doubled (or two lobes on each cam).

If you can sort the valve timing all you would need to do is supply the compressed air to the manifold.........

Best of luck with this one....


Colin

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Originally Posted by gromit

Valve timing may have to be changed because you need the inlet valve to open for most of the power stroke duration, you would also probably change to '2-stroke' operation.
Inlet valve opens, compressed air enters and pushes piston down, inlet closes, exhaust opens and expanded air is exhausted. Camshaft speed would have to be doubled (or two lobes on each cam).

If you can sort the valve timing all you would need to do is supply the compressed air to the manifold.........

Best of luck with this one....


Colin

thanks for luck but I am not contemplating doing it, just an idea. BUT if I was to do it I would get a $500 car off ebay with lots of engine bay room, 3 or 4 cylinder like a moke or daihatsu or something very light. get a new cam made up and make an air supply valve for the throttle.

Originally Posted by JohnF

Perhaps you could stop at every service station who offers free air to top up on your journeys.

The aussie inventors air powered car need a minimum of 1psi to run so the funny thing is you could actually use servo's air compressors to fill up, how cool would that be.

I would think an air engine would have heaps of torque because the piston is being powered by air all the way to the end of the stroke. Another thing is engine oil, imagine how long you would go between oil changes with no carbon in the system.