3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

professor95 wrote:




Bob has reminded me of a story from my past.

A buddy had a 50cc two-stroke Sears MoPed and could not keep up with those of us owning larger scooters or bikes (this was when I was 14 or 15 years old)like the Cushman Eagles and Sachs JB's of the era. Tommy came up with a concoction consisting of 1 gallon of Gulf Crest (then 106 octane), a pint can of model airplane glow plug fuel and a bottle of ether (which we could by over the counter at the farm store). He topped it all off with a GOLD plated twin electrode Wizard spark plug from Western Auto.

The little two-stroke MoPed would scream with this fuel concoction. But, after paying for rebuilding his engine when his piston melted he decided to go back to regular gasoline for fuel. :B

LOL. Ihad one of those in the early sixties, too. Made by Puch.

I devised a part time setup that injected some Francisco Two-Snapper fuel directly into the intake manifold. It contained nitromethane and alcohol, as well as castor oil to prevent piston sticking, which was the usual failure mode for that bike. The engine was fan cooled, so I improved that a little to avoid over-temping. I only used it for a short burst when I was losing a race, so there was no disaster. I did stick the piston now and then, but used muriatic acid to clean the aluminum residue from the cylinder wall and a fine file to remove the high spots on the piston skirt, and ran it again. I finally put in a Mahle piston which was a much lower expansion alloy with a Dykes ring, and no more problems.

That was back in the early sixties when half of UCLA rode mopeds or scooters. There was a blue fog over the area when classes ended.