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Dear Friend, H
i. My name is Tim. I
live to tinker. I'm an inventor, ex-teacher, writer, musician, Christian, husband and father, and I love to explore things with my mind and build things with my hands. Science, and working with wounded people, are two of my biggest passions in life, and I currently work part time at a residential youth ranch for at-risk teenagers.
In fact, when I was a kid, my mom, instead of drugging me up on ritalin to calm my ever-inquisitive and hyperactive mind, would buy old kitchen appliances instead at the thrift store for me to take apart at home (and thus leave her good stuff alone). I loved taking things apart. And I loved building new things and contraptions out of the pieces and parts of the old stuff (Thank you, Mom. I love you for that). In my grown up years, that meant I also got into building houses, fixing cars, designing and building computers and electronic equipment, building/administering computer networks, and more.
You see, I got tired of reading and hearing about how so-called "crackpot" inventors were claiming to get huge mileage gains from their vehicles, or about how good gas mileage was in the early days for some gasoline automobiles, and I wondered what had happened to all that old technology (and I talk about some of that too in the book). I read about the old Pogue carburetor that got 50+mpg, that big oil apparently squashed. I read about alternative fuels that got Europe through World War II. I personally talked to people getting 60mpg from normal 8 cylinder engines. I followed every rumour I could about people or technology that promised better fuel economy.
What I talk about is legitimate, and things
that me and hundreds and thousands of other people have done, clear back from the early days of the automobile - including various
government research branches, the army, garage inventors, mechanics, Detroit, places like that... At last count, I mention almost 200 tips, tricks, mods, tweaks,
and technologies (and I go into a lot of detail on many of them) that are all used by people to improve gas mileage.
But anyway. The problem that got me started was rising gas prices. And like I already mentioned, I
went looking for answers. I searched across the web, I read books, I
talked to smart people, I experimented on my own and friend's vehicles, and I found answers. I don't think I'm anybody really that special, just an out of work
engineer trying to feed his family (that has 7 adopted kids out of 8) and
stretch his gas mileage
budget. When you pay almost a thousand dollars a month in gasoline
costs alone, you tend to want to find answers. I needed to know how to save on gas, so I started researching it. In all honesty, I'm also gearing up to go off-grid with my new home and make my
family more self-sustainable. I lived off-grid for 4 years once
already, and want to do it again. And getting better gas mileage is
just one part of that bigger equation that I am going after. So I went
looking for answers. Then I wrote them all down for myself, documented a bunch of it, proved to myself and others that the various things I talk about DO work, and I am now
offering to pass along everything I figured out on to you too. It's THE single most comprehensive overall, big picture guide to getting better gas mileage that you can find anywhere on the net today. And I'm offering it to you cheap, right now.
And again, I'm being honest here, that this is also me trying to
feed my family by
doing something I love to do (the "get better gas mileage" research part), putting out information that can benefit all of us. So here's my speal. Please hear me out. There are literally hundreds of different things people can change in their driving styles, mods and tweaks they can make to their actual vehicles, technologies being developed that they can invest in, or combinations of all of them, to get better fuel economy and improve the average
car or truck's fuel efficiency by 15%,
30%, 50% or even 100% (that's doubling it). Incredible, isn't it? I didn't think it was possible at first either. But
I've done
it - and with
multiple vehicles. They
also run cleaner, smoother and stronger now too. I didn't just take someone else's word for
it. Like I said already, I actually tried a lot of the ideas that are
floating around, and wrote about my results along with some of the research
I conducted and the answers I found. Aside from the more easily implemented driving style changes I suggest, some of the easiest actual mechanical improvements I
made in as little as ten minutes each.
I
have a 1985 5.7L-V8 (350ci) Chevy 3/4 ton carbureted 4WD Scottsdale K10 Pickup truck
that was getting 8 or 9 miles to the gallon on all 8 cylinders when I
bought it. It was a total junker, with a tired engine (that had been replaced with another now tired engine, matched to a VERY low geared 4-spd manual transmission and rear end - horrible for gas mileage but great for towing). It had so many miles on it that even the speedometer and odometer no longer worked. Unfortunately, soon thereafter,
the timing also slipped due to a loose distributor cap assembly, and one of the valves burnt (I can hear it poofing),
so it then really only ran on 7 cylinders. Even so, after implementing some of
the basic enhancements that I detail in this "little" book, its average mileage jumped back up to between 11mpg and 12mpg (on 7 cylinders). That's roughly a 30%
improvement, or almost what www.fueleconomy.gov says it should get brand new, but on SEVEN cylinders! It also runs smoother too, and has more horsepower, even with that one valve
burned and leaking badly. I
had a 1989 2.8 liter fuel injected V6 Pontiac Grand Prix that was
averaging maybe 27mpg highway when I bought it, with less than
100,000 miles on it. When the tranny finally blew up for the second
time and I junked the car, it had over 210,000 miles on it,
consistently
got up to 35~40 miles per gallon, and had more power than ever (that's
almost a 50% improvement!) And no, I did not disable the exhaust
emissions controls on it - though that is one possible way to improve the
mileage of some vehicles - but also illegal to do in many places. Note: www.fueleconomy.gov says I should only expect 16mpg in the city and 27mpg highway from this vehicle, when new. I
have a 1997 5.7 liter (350ci) fuel injected V8 4WD GMC Suburban with now over
240,000 miles on it. During the summer of 2008, I drove from Boise,
Idaho to Bellingham, WA for a family reunion, around Bellingham, and
back, fully loaded with luggage, eight kids, and my wife, traveling at
70+ mph. And due to several mileage improving enhancements, tweaks and ecomods that I made/added
(including a hydrogen generator that I talk about in the book), I was getting roughly
19mpg (that's almost a 50% improvement over the 13mpg (or less) that
this trip might have otherwise gotten...). Now for this trip lasting
about 1500 miles, and gas about $4.00/gallon, I figure that these tips (that I
installed/implemented in several hours before we left) saved us about
$85 in gasoline just on this one trip alone.With tweaks I added in 2010 (also in the book), I soon began to average about 20mpg both on the freeway and just around town here. This same vehicle, which averaged 13mpg at one point in its life, was getting well over 20mpg at it's best point (with more tweaks that I added in late 2011), almost double what it was before. And I still haven't put everything into this vehicle that I could or that I mention in the book (and I keep swapping mods in and out as I test them). There's still room for more improvement! Note: www.fueleconomy.gov says I should only expect 11mpg in the city, and 15mpg on the highway (at 65mph or less) for this rig when BRAND NEW. How's that for progress! My next goal is to triple my mileage, now that I've broken the DOUBLE barrier... I'll make sure that any buyer of my ebook that asks for an update gets one as I make progress... I
recently resurrected from the dead (November, 2011) an old 4-cylinder 2.5 liter 1981 automatic Buick Skylark with almost 100,000 miles on it, in order try gas mileage improvement stuff on it. It DID already have its emission controls and smog equipment disabled, so I wanted to do some testing with a rig like this. So I drove it around town for awhile, and then on the freeway. It was a gutless thing, especially at higher speeds (the speedometer only goes up to 85mph, if that tells you anything), but it got surprisingly good mileage for what it was: about 23mpg in the city, and almost 27mpg on the freeway. It's definitely meant to be an around town car. Note: The www.fueleconomy.gov website says it should get about 20mpg city, and 28mpg highway, when NEW...
Then I started adding tweaks one at a time, and driving it. The first tweak took it to 28mpg highway. The second tweak gave me so much extra power, I took advantage of the power (and drove faster), and the gas mileage stayed at 28mpg until I slowed it back down to the same cruising speed I used before. Then suddenly the gas mileage was up to 30mpg (with cleaner emissions too -even with the emissions stuff still nonfunctional). This is over a 10% increase for just two simple engine add-ons that I talk about (among many) in the book, without any specific focus on advanced hypermiling driving style techniques that have made some people famous (things I also talk about in the book). I have a whole list of tweaks, changes and modifications planned for this car, and I do believe I can get it up to double gas mileage as well. Then I got ambitious. I planned a 4,200 mile road trip (to a college reunion), and installed a number of ecomods so that I could test them along the way (specifically, water injection, hydrogen injection, ozone injection, and combinations there of). And the car survived. Several tires did not, and I ended up replacing two of them somewhere in Kansas (I live in Idaho), but the car itself, ran wonderful. And I was able document mileage improvements, and/or horsepower improvements, from each. At one point, it looked like I was actually pushing 40 mpg (at 70mph avg). Nice, eh? That's easily double what I was getting when the car was first given to me 7 years prior. And that brings up a side note here. Advanced hypermilers, people who change their driving styles to get better mileage in a significant way, can often double their mileage through driving style changes alone. Although I mention as many of the techniques they use that I could find, over half of this ebook still focuses on tweaks and ecomods that you can do to the actual vehicle itself, and on using technology partnered with just basic driving style changes in order to improve or even double your gas mileage. If what you talk about is real, why aren't the car manufacturers already doing it? That's a very good question, and one I had to think about a bit before I came up with some plausible answers. It's like this... For one, it simply costs more to make cars that are more fuel efficient. That's why the only time we see serious improvements in average car mileage is when Congress mandates it (and car makers ALWAYS seem to find a way to comply, even though they whine about it too). And if people are already programmed to accept the gas mileage that all base model cars get, why waste money getting better than people's expectations? That's just good business sense, to give people what they expect as cheaply as possible. It also means that YOU end up getting the short end of the stick when it comes to gas mileage. It's also like the inkjet printer business, or the smart phone sales model. HP and Samsung build and sell their products (inkjet printers and smart phones) at cost (or even below cost) because they know they will make their profit on aftermarket ink cartridge sales, and long term cell service contracts. Likewise with cars and gasoline. Share holders in big oil and the car manufacturing business make their biggest money on gasoline and repeat sales (because most cars wear out so quickly now days-built cheap), not in actual one-time car sales. They don't want to build cars that get great mileage and last forever. They intentionally build and sell cheap cars that get the minimum required mileage possible, so they can sell you another (cheap) car in a couple of years, and sell you lots of gasoline and repair parts in the process. That's their business model, plain and simple. Lucky You, eh?
Here's some of the things I talk about:
I covered the information using several other guidelines as well, roughly as follows, trying to analyse the problem from every angle possible, to cover all bases:
1. The driver factor
It comes to over 130 pages of the best
gas
mileage improving information that you can find ANYWHERE on the net!
Yes, you could go out and duplicate a lot of my research, and recompile
a lot of the tips, tricks, tweaks, and technologies that I have
documented, but isn't your time more valuable than that, when I've
already compiled it for you? For us, in 2006 alone, with me and my wife driving almost 1000 miles per week in two vehicles, after I incorporated some of what I wrote in this jam packed ebook, with gasoline averaging ONLY $2.50/gallon, I figure I saved us between $1500 and $1800 over the course of the year (in 2007 and 2008 when gas prices were higher, we saved even more than this. Same goes for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.... I've been doing this for awhile now, and know what I am talking about). With gas prices in the US normally bouncing around between $3 and $4 per gallon, if you're only driving 500 miles per week at 25mpg (in a two car family, this is entirely realistic, if not on the low side), and averaging paying $3/gallon, it still costs you over $3,000 a year in gasoline costs alone (not to mention repairs and upkeep). If you could improve you mileage even just by a meager third, AND save yourself a third on repair/maintenance costs, you just saved yourself well over $1,000 for the year.
So I can't resist asking a pointed question here,
and making an observation, just to make my point, that you really need to understand this
information and what it can do for you. 1. How many car, house, or credit card payments would $1000 or $1500 cover for you? 2. Most people would be happy with the $.50~$1.00 per hour raise that this roughly equates to over the course of the year.
If you're serious about saving money, and putting a little cash back into your pocket, you'll buy the book and check into what it talks about. So what am I charging for it? $5.95.
I figure it's worth at least the price of one
fast food dinner... I know I put hundreds of hours of time, and thousands of dollars, into
researching for, and writing, this book. $5.95 is tiddlywinks compared to
what I put into it, and what you can get out of it.
Like I said before, this IS the single most COMPREHENSIVE book on getting better gas mileage available ANYWHERE on the net today... And I'm only charging $5.95 for this ebook, and not giving this ebook away, for 2 more reasons as well.
So please click the "Buy Now" button below, to get your copy today. If you really need to justify the expense, skip going to McDonald's once this week or next, and it's paid for. Even with just a 10% improvement in your mileage (I mention one ten minute technique that alone gives most people this), you will pay for this booklet in the savings from less than two typical tanks of gas. Can you really afford not to get this ebook and at least check it out?
P.S. Seriously, for just $5.95 I can
show you how to save yourself a LOT of money. This is about what you would expect to pay at your local bookstore for a book like this (but you can get it now, instead of later). How can you pass on that? Even
if you DON'T do anything with the info right now, at least you'll have
it when you ARE ready.
Questions? Comments? Need support? hmpg@timbenedict.net
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