Comments on: Ford Explorer gets 1000 hp With Dual Hydraulic Motors http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g/ CarDomain Blog - Crazy news and CarDomain Finds Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:12:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mechanical Engineer & FAA Licensed Aircraft Mechanic http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g/comment-page-1/#comment-29099 Mechanical Engineer & FAA Licensed Aircraft Mechanic Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:12:08 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g#comment-29099 <p>I'm not surprised. I am a Mechanical Engineer and FAA Licensed A&P Aircraft Mechanic/Technician. There's many other powerplants aside from gasoline four-stroke piston engines and heat-of-compression diesel engines, for the quick throttle response needed for automotive applications. Electric Motors are the best type of powerplants, running on A.C. since their efficiency is around 80% on average. Gasoline-powered pistons aren't anymore than 33%-34% efficient at the most. 1/3 of a gallon goes to heat the engine, another 1/3 to overcome friction losses within the engine and the vehicle's road friction, the last 1/3 is used to drive the piston. Note that there is 20,000 BTU per lbs of gasoline w/ gasoline weighing 6 lbs/gallon. As for Electric Motor Horsepower, that is way more efficient around 80%, but you'd need a good D.C. current supply from batteries, which get converted to A.C current through an Inverter, you'll still lose a lot of amps in process. Something like the A.C. current freezers on meat trucks. Like an 800 amp D.C. current 12 volt battery will invert out to about 110 volts A.C. and 8 amps, lol. Some, not all of your battery charge can be restored while driving, by having the A.C. motor also drive alternators. Can also run alternators off the wheels, no more than 100 miles range, before supplemental re-charging the batteries for losses is required. But pretty high torque and instant power though. Lastly is the HYDRAULIC MOTOR, bingo! Converting hydraulic pressure by a hydraulic pump to power a hydraulic motor. We use these on heavy rotor helicopters, which don't start up well with just compression air from the turboshaft turbine engine. Such the massive C-47 Twin Blade Chinook Helicopter monster. Need a hydraulic motor assist on the rotors, while the thing is winding up its compressor and turbines to light off, then the hot gases drive the free turbine to the transmission unit to drive the massive 3000 lbs a piece twin rotors to ground idle RPM & of course later flight idle RPM. Knowing that Hydraulic Horsepower (HP) = [P x Q] / [1714 x % EFFICIENCY] for hydraulic motors, where P = HYDRAULIC PRESSURE RATING IN PSI, Q = GALLON PER MINUTE HYDRAULIC FLOW, % EFFICIENCY = HYDRAULIC MOTOR EFFICIENCY RATING. Knowing this, one can phase in a Hydraulic motor to a driveline on a car, with the appropriate Torque and Horsepower rating for the given vehicle. Then drive the hydraulic pump on a gas piston engine or electric motor powered by a generator which is powered by a gas piston engine. Might say a "Hydro Hybrid Car" hahahaha. Anyways, it is another method to drive a flywheel & transmission, for moving a car with some heavy duty power. I know the oil companies don't like to encourage this type of powertrain. Any Master Mechanical Technician or Skilled Mechanical Engineer, can design & build any of these concepts. It's just that the oil companies own all the stock in the automobile manufacturing companies. Yep, better technologies are constantly repressed & supressed from ever becoming mass-produced, by (you guessed it right!), THE OIL COMPANIES & THEIR AFFILIATE CORPORATIONS! Technical Colleges, Licensed Mechanics, and Engineers, might be building their own Concept Cars, powered on A.C. Electric Motors or Hydraulic Motors, but don't count on any mass production of these just yet. All this is old technology anyways. During World War II, they had "Concept Tanks" powered on Hydraulic Motors which were going as fast as 49 MHP on the battlefield. Couldn't use them though, moved too fast. Any Engineer or Master Technician, can develop any of these better concept cars. But since we have a mostly un-educated society, this doesn't help in getting the public to stand up against the oil companies. We Engineers & Technicians all have before, but we're too few to make a difference. So I guess for now we'll just invent our own innovative technologies. Using a Hydraulic Motor for an automobile powerplant/powertrain isn't anything new. But Hydraulic Motors should be the Powertrain for Automobiles totally. Too much greed by massive corporations coupled with a society that is not very educated in the realms of Science, Technology & Engineering is the root of the problem. Most of the innovations world-wide are pioneered by Foreigners from the East anyways, that greedy Western Corporations like to steal/hijack as their own, then completely repress it and stick it on the shelf and keep it there! If America wakes up as whole, by being more educated, then things would surely change. But I don't see this happening the way things are getting worst in this American Nation. Lastly, Electric Motor Horsepower is EHP = [Current x Voltage x % Efficiency] / [746]; and Internal Combustion Piston Engine Brake Horsepower (BHP) = [6.28 x [Torque x RPM] / [33,000]. Efficiency is much higher in Hydraulic & Electric Motors. None of this is a big deal, it's just greedy corporations mass producing less efficient technologies, then living off the publicly-traded stock from it all. They have a monopoly on it all. So to my fellow Engineers & Technicians, carry on with your own innovations, the rest of society really doesn't care about improving anything, while they're being robbed on a daily basis by the greedy corporations that be. Since our society for the most part likes to be ignorant instead of educated in real Majors such as Science, Technology, Mathematics & Engineering. This is due to their ignorant, selfish and lazy selves for the most part in this American Nation. Welcome to America! :) The Technical Colleges actually have the brightest students, more the real Engineers that the Super Corporations like to just call "Technicians". Compared to the watered-down ASTM Reps, who like to call themselves “Engineers” working for the super-corporations making the big-bucks (bribes). Again, welcome to America, where even the entire system has a right to be wrong! lol</p> <p> </p> I’m not surprised. I am a Mechanical Engineer and FAA Licensed A&P Aircraft Mechanic/Technician. There’s many other powerplants aside from gasoline four-stroke piston engines and heat-of-compression diesel engines, for the quick throttle response needed for automotive applications. Electric Motors are the best type of powerplants, running on A.C. since their efficiency is around 80% on average. Gasoline-powered pistons aren’t anymore than 33%-34% efficient at the most. 1/3 of a gallon goes to heat the engine, another 1/3 to overcome friction losses within the engine and the vehicle’s road friction, the last 1/3 is used to drive the piston. Note that there is 20,000 BTU per lbs of gasoline w/ gasoline weighing 6 lbs/gallon. As for Electric Motor Horsepower, that is way more efficient around 80%, but you’d need a good D.C. current supply from batteries, which get converted to A.C current through an Inverter, you’ll still lose a lot of amps in process. Something like the A.C. current freezers on meat trucks. Like an 800 amp D.C. current 12 volt battery will invert out to about 110 volts A.C. and 8 amps, lol. Some, not all of your battery charge can be restored while driving, by having the A.C. motor also drive alternators. Can also run alternators off the wheels, no more than 100 miles range, before supplemental re-charging the batteries for losses is required. But pretty high torque and instant power though. Lastly is the HYDRAULIC MOTOR, bingo! Converting hydraulic pressure by a hydraulic pump to power a hydraulic motor. We use these on heavy rotor helicopters, which don’t start up well with just compression air from the turboshaft turbine engine. Such the massive C-47 Twin Blade Chinook Helicopter monster. Need a hydraulic motor assist on the rotors, while the thing is winding up its compressor and turbines to light off, then the hot gases drive the free turbine to the transmission unit to drive the massive 3000 lbs a piece twin rotors to ground idle RPM & of course later flight idle RPM. Knowing that Hydraulic Horsepower (HP) = [P x Q] / [1714 x % EFFICIENCY] for hydraulic motors, where P = HYDRAULIC PRESSURE RATING IN PSI, Q = GALLON PER MINUTE HYDRAULIC FLOW, % EFFICIENCY = HYDRAULIC MOTOR EFFICIENCY RATING. Knowing this, one can phase in a Hydraulic motor to a driveline on a car, with the appropriate Torque and Horsepower rating for the given vehicle. Then drive the hydraulic pump on a gas piston engine or electric motor powered by a generator which is powered by a gas piston engine. Might say a “Hydro Hybrid Car” hahahaha. Anyways, it is another method to drive a flywheel & transmission, for moving a car with some heavy duty power. I know the oil companies don’t like to encourage this type of powertrain. Any Master Mechanical Technician or Skilled Mechanical Engineer, can design & build any of these concepts. It’s just that the oil companies own all the stock in the automobile manufacturing companies. Yep, better technologies are constantly repressed & supressed from ever becoming mass-produced, by (you guessed it right!), THE OIL COMPANIES & THEIR AFFILIATE CORPORATIONS! Technical Colleges, Licensed Mechanics, and Engineers, might be building their own Concept Cars, powered on A.C. Electric Motors or Hydraulic Motors, but don’t count on any mass production of these just yet. All this is old technology anyways. During World War II, they had “Concept Tanks” powered on Hydraulic Motors which were going as fast as 49 MHP on the battlefield. Couldn’t use them though, moved too fast. Any Engineer or Master Technician, can develop any of these better concept cars. But since we have a mostly un-educated society, this doesn’t help in getting the public to stand up against the oil companies. We Engineers & Technicians all have before, but we’re too few to make a difference. So I guess for now we’ll just invent our own innovative technologies. Using a Hydraulic Motor for an automobile powerplant/powertrain isn’t anything new. But Hydraulic Motors should be the Powertrain for Automobiles totally. Too much greed by massive corporations coupled with a society that is not very educated in the realms of Science, Technology & Engineering is the root of the problem. Most of the innovations world-wide are pioneered by Foreigners from the East anyways, that greedy Western Corporations like to steal/hijack as their own, then completely repress it and stick it on the shelf and keep it there! If America wakes up as whole, by being more educated, then things would surely change. But I don’t see this happening the way things are getting worst in this American Nation. Lastly, Electric Motor Horsepower is EHP = [Current x Voltage x % Efficiency] / [746]; and Internal Combustion Piston Engine Brake Horsepower (BHP) = [6.28 x [Torque x RPM] / [33,000]. Efficiency is much higher in Hydraulic & Electric Motors. None of this is a big deal, it’s just greedy corporations mass producing less efficient technologies, then living off the publicly-traded stock from it all. They have a monopoly on it all. So to my fellow Engineers & Technicians, carry on with your own innovations, the rest of society really doesn’t care about improving anything, while they’re being robbed on a daily basis by the greedy corporations that be. Since our society for the most part likes to be ignorant instead of educated in real Majors such as Science, Technology, Mathematics & Engineering. This is due to their ignorant, selfish and lazy selves for the most part in this American Nation. Welcome to America! :) The Technical Colleges actually have the brightest students, more the real Engineers that the Super Corporations like to just call “Technicians”. Compared to the watered-down ASTM Reps, who like to call themselves “Engineers” working for the super-corporations making the big-bucks (bribes). Again, welcome to America, where even the entire system has a right to be wrong! lol

]]> By: hydraulic power units http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g/comment-page-1/#comment-29078 hydraulic power units Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:56:27 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g#comment-29078 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Wow. The car looks good.</p> </div>

Wow. The car looks good.

]]> By: Jon http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g/comment-page-1/#comment-29079 Jon Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:17:37 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g#comment-29079 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Does anyone know the proper procedure to remove the interior heat/AC vents in a 2003 explorer? I had some work done years back putting LED singles behind my vents and some of them have now burned out. I wanted to replace them myself this time around. Any help?</p> </div>

Does anyone know the proper procedure to remove the interior heat/AC vents in a 2003 explorer? I had some work done years back putting LED singles behind my vents and some of them have now burned out. I wanted to replace them myself this time around. Any help?

]]> By: halonine http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g/comment-page-1/#comment-29080 halonine Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:46:18 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g#comment-29080 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>BMW FTW!!!! go beemer go beemer its your birthday</p> </div>

BMW FTW!!!! go beemer go beemer its your birthday

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g/comment-page-1/#comment-29081 Anonymous Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:19:25 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g#comment-29081 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Ya thats well and great but that engine in a jetta will get 50 mpgs and a two three thousand dollars will do the same thing</p> </div>

Ya thats well and great but that engine in a jetta will get 50 mpgs and a two three thousand dollars will do the same thing

]]> By: sirus http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g/comment-page-1/#comment-29082 sirus Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:25:56 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g#comment-29082 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>thats pretty smart. why not do that to all sorts of cars. it would save tons on gas and also satisfy your need for speed.</p> </div>

thats pretty smart. why not do that to all sorts of cars. it would save tons on gas and also satisfy your need for speed.

]]> By: nismoke http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g/comment-page-1/#comment-29083 nismoke Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:26:08 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g#comment-29083 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>simply amazing!gives car manufacturers a slap on the butt</p> </div>

simply amazing!gives car manufacturers a slap on the butt

]]> By: tony http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g/comment-page-1/#comment-29084 tony Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:25:07 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g#comment-29084 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>BMW ALL THE WAY OH YAE MIKE IS RIGHT!!1</p> </div>

BMW ALL THE WAY OH YAE MIKE IS RIGHT!!1

]]> By: tony http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g/comment-page-1/#comment-29085 tony Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:25:01 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g#comment-29085 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>BMW ALL THE WAY OH YAE MIKE IS RIGHT!!1</p> </div>

BMW ALL THE WAY OH YAE MIKE IS RIGHT!!1

]]> By: Miller http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g/comment-page-1/#comment-29086 Miller Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:23:10 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/ford-explorer-g#comment-29086 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>I finished a top respected hydraulics course 2 Years ago and I'm not surprised someone FINALLY did this.</p> <p>Congrats and I wish it went towards a kick-ass pickup truck or some kind and not this Soccer Mom/Family Vehicle.</p> <p>Time for a swap after using it at the TEST TRACK I think! (-:</p></div>

I finished a top respected hydraulics course 2 Years ago and I’m not surprised someone FINALLY did this.

Congrats and I wish it went towards a kick-ass pickup truck or some kind and not this Soccer Mom/Family Vehicle.

Time for a swap after using it at the TEST TRACK I think! (-:

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