Reduce your vehicle’s carbon footprint
Sep 4, 2009
By TopIZ
Filed in Machinery & Equipment
Summary: Cut your vehicle’s greenhouse gas pollution and carbon footprint
If your vehicle is 4 years or more old, replacing the fuel injectors will do wonders for you. Why? Think of a fuel injector as a mister, similar to a water mister for your plants. The purpose of this mister is to create a fine mist out of your fuel so that it can burn. Remember, liquid fuel DOES NOT BURN – it has to be atomized or it will only become pollution, not power.
Now include in this picture the fact that your fuel is sent to these fuel injectors at high pressure. As with any fluid going through a small hole at high pressure, the hole will eventually wear larger than it was originally. Once this happens, instead of misting your fuel, your fuel will be squirted. That is, liquid fuel will now be entering into your engine as a stream.
And again, liquid fuel cannot burn! Your mileage will suffer and you will be sending more pollution into the air because you are not atomizing your fuel completely.
While replacing your injectors is on the short side of a pricey affair, the trade-off is a better running vehicle with more power and cleaner air for you to breath.
”’Air Filters”’
Just as pollution controls clogging up your exhaust will cause your vehicles to work harder to simply move, so will a bad air filter. If you have ever tried to breath through a bad air filter when you were painting, you would know what your engine is up against with a dirty air filter inside of it.
Also, most air filters are made out of a type of paper that is cheap and replaceable. However, you are using paper that will not be recycled when discarded, so you are ‘killing trees’ with these filters.
Not only that, but paper air filters really don’t breath very well in the first place! And if you put on that bad air filter mentioned above and tried to run any distance, you would soon want a better air filter rather badly.
If you are using a small vehicle, you have alternatives that will cause you to end the waste of paper air filters and that are readily available over the counter at most auto parts stores. For larger vehicles, your filters will have to be special ordered from such as K&N.
Not only will you stop killing trees, your engine will run better for it and your mileage may improve as well due to better engine breathing.
A very simple, inexpensive measure can be taken to drastically cut your vehicles greenhouse gas pollution. Here is a California smog report of a modified vehicle: [http://engineecology.com/upload/smog_test.pdf] Since more than that would be considered selfless promotion, I leave you with the above as a good starter.
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