We started a trivia thread over at another forum and it has been a lot of fun.
Here are the ground rules. It starts with one question. The first reply with the right answer gets the floor for a new question. It continues like that unless, A) the person who has the floor doesn't ask a new question, or B) no one gets the correct answer. In that case, the person with the floor asks a new question. No more than one question on the floor at a time, and discussion/clarification is welcome until the floor is taken over by a new question.
First question: In the 1952 Indy 500, what type of fuel was burned in the record-setting pole-position #28 car? Hint: it won pole position by a full 4 mph over the second-place Ferrari
But the Duryea was correct, right? Even googling all I could find was a ever brief mention of a spray carburetor but you indicated that it had NO carb so I guess I'm spent.:smash:
It's fuel system had no throttle ability, but it DID have an extremely weird way to mix gasoline with air to make a burnable mixture. And it was NOT a surface-evap system with air flowing over the liquid fuel reservoir
The surface carburetor was a combination of the fuel tank and the carburetor. Air was pulled through a inlet pipe over the fuel which caused it to evaporate and atomize. It was then pulled into the engine causing combustion.
If it had no throttle I'm guessing the engine would run at a set rpm and in that case it would need some form of variable speed transmission. There are machines that kind of work this way. A lot of agricultural sprayers for instance have a hydrostatic transmission. The engine is run against the governor and the transmission is used to vary that ground speed. Most of the combines I have driven to harvest grain utilize a hydrostatic transmission much in the same manner but I have driven a couple, long ago, that used a variable speed belt to vary the ground speed. These use an adjustable pulley to drive and a spring loaded pulley that is driven to vary the speed.
Pretty early for a hydrostat so I'm going to guess it had a variable speed belt or some other device that I'm unfamiliar with.
Ok. Last guess. either a 1901 Duryea Phaeton Three Wheeler, 1901 Duryea Phaeton Four Wheeler, or a 1901 Duryea Trap Four Wheeler.All three of these autos used Duryea's three cylinder engine. This engine throttled by sliding a throttle plate back and forth across the intake valves. The plate restricted the amount of travel the intake could open. This engine might be Duryea's Peoria type engine.
. Looks like a steering rack or master cylinder or slave cylinder... or a jack... or convertible top mechanism...
. A real rodder would have made that Duryea engine work instead of going with a furrin' Asian engine... even if had to add a Holley AFB carb. to it...
. Reminded me of the Brown motorcycle... Brown didn't like electricity... thought it was the devil's work... so used a candle or something to ignite the engine... didn't use a chain either, but a ratcheting drive...
You're just BEGINNING to find it hard....? R U a slow learner or something? (Sorry BB - I tried, but my will power was very weak - I just could not resist!)
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