It's also more green than electric car, with rebuilding resource intensive battery pack atleast every 4th year. Imagine how much energy it takes to get the limited rare earths from ground to factory and to consumer. It's crasy.
@gmail account And there are some cars still running after 50 years, while most of them are long gone and rusted away. In normal daily use in colder countries, like the one I live in. Tesla batteries have approximately half the range when fully charged after 2-3 years. 4 Years is absolute maximum time you can use one set of batteries. Here is a video where local guys blow up a tesla when the owner lost the warranty after trying to fix broken battery pack in quite low mileage tesla. It can work in sunny california but it's not so good here. ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=beyond+the+press+tesla+explosion And this is why we need other solutions than 100% electric car everywhere. On top of that EV:s are boring while many like the sounds of sport cars-
@gmail account It may not be as efficient but there would definitely be demand for engines like this if normal engines eventually become regulated out of existence.
@gmail account You are right about the extreme cold weather, it's not good for any cars yet but so far petrol (or perhaps hydrogen powered combustion, or the fuel cell technology would suffice) is my only option. We have EVs in cities on people who have access to warm parking cave and/or access to charger for example at work place garage or atleast they have warm garage at home, which many in apartment blocks don't have. 5 000 people and less than 5 chargers per block makes quite a long queue lines. I'm little sad I must say I really am glad to have a good conversation about this. These days people tend to join the extremes in every guestion and cannot tolerate people with differing ideas or opinions. Yet we still must try to coexist on this Earth. Have a nice day/evening sir.
It’s not dying anyways we can’t sustain our grid nor build batteries to supply electric vehicles to replace ice ones. You can run your fridge all year for less then it cost to charge electric vehicle under a month
@@Thumper68 Fridge don't use that much power, not a good comparison. but still, without a miracle battery or fuel cell internal combustion will never even begin to die out.
Love to see work like this and that you are excited by it. Innovation is still alive. Never sell out, this is fabulous work to keep in your name and build on.
I see alot of potential here! I have wondered about injecting vaporized water to reduce knock? Either way imagine a zero emissions hot rod that still has a normal engine in it!
There is no knock with hydrogen. You can lean it out up to lambda 7, which is almost as good as a diesel. Only problem is the low power density, direct injection and turbos are a must.
@@blubb7711 That isn't true.... if you run it too lean it could create an explosive detonation. Its just harder to do. You can technically water inject on a hydrogen ICE, it just won't benefit anything but niche cases.
You need to control the fuel delivery and air delivery as a combination based off of a load multiplier just like a standard fuel table. I am sure you could set this up on an aftermarket engine ECU such as a Holley EFI system, and using both MAP and IAT sensors you could control both the throttle body for air and using a MAC valve on one of the outputs on the Holley system to control your fuel solenoid. You need a large supply and a large hose to the solenoid, with the solenoid being as close to your injectors as possible.
What we should do is try to see if we can get that water vapor exhaust to condense in an intercooler and then return the water to an Electrolysis unit. There was a guy who made an amazing design for such a machine. He had specific sizing for the metal plates.
@@joshuawhite3411 LOL specific sizing or not, it takes electric energy for the electrolysis and it will require more power from the engine to run the electrolysis then you will ever get back from the Hydrogen gas that was produced if you pipe it back into the engine.
@@milanswoboda5457 Bullsht you run the electrolysis unit of your Alternator which you buy in many different Amperage outputs so all you have to do is either replace your original alternator with a much higher amperage unit, or install a second alternator to your engine DER. Lmfao.
@@fullboostturbo1 LOL someone is an absolute genius here. Newsflash, an alternator will require power from the engine in order to make the electricity and it will pull more kinetic energy from the engine than the electric energy it generates in accordance to the electric load connected and with it the engine will use extra fuel to turn that alternator which converts the kinetic energy to electric energy. Get yourself a bicycle bottle generator and turn it by hand with and without a load connected, you might learn something ;)
Ran my VW 411 LE on LPG basically on same setup way back in 1980 to work and back every day. Electrical Foreman didn't believe so I demonstrated to him. Was quite cheaper than running on petrol at time and much cleaner burning on spark plugs and exhaust with no bad effects on engine. Two years before that I ran same car on 100 % ETHANOL with minor adjustment to Dwell angle in Distributor, magnificent increase on power.
My father was a tech since 1971 and growing up in the world of combustion i've been sad to think that will die within his life span. Hydrogen!!! Thank you for this video. I can picture my v6 jeep running on hydrogen one day so I dont need to give up on combustion.
Currently hydrogen is not up to the task. A vehicle can only carry a fraction of the energy available in gasoline do to vessel size required for pressurized hydrogen. Liquid hydrogen requires an enormous power hungry refrigeration unit to transport. So neither is practical. Only if some new technology comes around that can store hydrogen as a liquid or solid would this be viable. And remember, hydrogen is not a source of energy, it is only a storage of energy, and not a very good one currently. Gasoline is a source of energy. What about developing a fuel cell that transforms gasoline into electricity and it's byproducts in a non-polluting manner? Imagine an EV with a 3-5 gallon tank and 1000 mile range?
@@jamesclark830 cosworth catalytic generator. Yawn. Looking at putting one in my hybrid v8 build. But as for an all ev. The market will already be saturated enough by the time hydrogen and e-fuels are developed enough to balance things out. Develop it all.
Very good, I am capturing part of your video and solely for the purpose of proving a legacy engine can run and performs better running on hydrogen than on gasoline. If you are having problems with consistency in maintaining fuels it’s because the engine is carbonated. The floats are actuated by liquid. Once the fuel bowls are empty it’s difficult to meter the fuel. This is why the RPM’s increase once the gasoline is gone. It’s because you are using a regulator that you are able to precisely control the the fuel. If the engine were EFI you could control it with a conventional throttle and timing. Amazing, thanks you so much for your hard work. ❤
better make it known that you arent suicidal or have any death wish.... there was another fellow that had a hydrogen engine back in the 80s and he disappeared... god speed brother!!
Do you change the timing?.. as hydrogen is more of a rapid implosion, the inventor of the JOE CELL used to alter the timing quite a bit.. great video, keep at it..
The problem is how much hydrogen it uses. The better alternative is hydrogen fuel cells that convert the hydrogen to electricity and then run an electric motor.
Hydrogen is very, very, very small. It leaks, no matter what you do. It leaks through rubber seals, it leaks through gaskets, it leaks through pipes if given enough time. Don't get me wrong, great idea; practical hell if you want to power an engine separately from an hydrogen producing facility. Storage is almost impossible and if it leaks underground, it makes for an explosive combination that's virtually unstoppable.
@@TheGagabou ya, all of those problems you mentioned are mitigated by maintenance … which adds to costs. I read hydrogen is 8x less energy efficient because of generation losses, compression losses, transport losses, decompression losses, conversion losses. It seems the only industry where it would make sense is one where weight of fuel and batteries would be a barrier. Such as airlines and yachts. Massively expensive energy solution.
I love to see how happy he is, keep the work up, this may be the saving grace for all those who enjoy classic cars, as the push away from gasoline gets stronger.
Cool, do you have a means of controlling egr to attain / co-equal the burn rate of petrolium fuel? If not then you might be running a fair bit more hydrogen than required? Have you considered hydrogen/argon or nitrogen pre-mix for testing? Maybe build a blame front test rig.
Argon doesn't burn. It's a noble gas. Nitrogen nearly doesn't burn, which is why it is used in fire extinguishers. We have enough nitrogen in our atmosphere already (+-78%). They are not fuels. Quite the contrary. Hydrogen and regular air are all that's required. Additional fuel and maybe an oxidizer could be considered should more power be required, or to reduce the hydrogen consumption. Reducing the hydrogen consumption would just mean you are going to burn more of something else (like gasoline).
@@detaart That's exactly my point. Hydrogen burns far too quickly for all of it's potential to be extracted to mechanical advantage. Mixed with noble gases it's burn rate can be slowed to be more efficient in a standard combustion engine. Noble gases are used prior to being mixed with air in the cylinder by normal means, so that the mixture is safe, and far less hydrogen is required. It's possible to add this Hydrogen/noble gas mix into an existing diesel engine without performance reduction. Expect to see this in mining equipment very soon.
@@scottneels2628 yes flame speed of Hydrogen is high if you have a stoichiometric H2 O2 mixture however if the stoichiometric mixture is done with ambient air you will have already a far slower flame front speed due to the high Nitrogen content. Adding additional non fuel gases to the mixture will furthermore increase a big issue with H2 gas in a naturally aspirated ICE and that is its very low volumetric energy density and with it it occupies a lot of space therefore limiting the amount of fuel energy available with a stoichiometric mixture in the fixed cylinder volume.
There might be some thing here with maybe a water injection system to try and slow the detonation down. Ping ping you gonna melt your pistons over time!
Im quite nervous about having a high pressure vessel like that on my car. Especially one with an element as hard to contain as hydrogen. That being said, this was awesome to see. No backfiring, quite a smooth sounding operation, love it Now i have a question. Is it a compression-ignition engine like a diesel, or does it use electrical ignition?
Was thinking the same, i converted my old petrol tractor to run on lpg using a vapor gas system from my landcruiser, am re doing the system at the moment as im adding a turbocharger and water injection (water injection instead of an intercooler as they get blocked up too fast while im slashing grass) Should be good, how it was before i was getting the same power as standard but with less fuel cost (more timing) but it was overheating due to the fuel not scavenging the heat from the cylinders. So water injection should solve that, plus the bigger throttle and plenum im making up should help too
I tried it on smaller single cylinder engines with my own mods. It worked except when your engine backfires during start up and blows the intake to pieces.
@@julianbrah5873 H2 + O2 + N2 → H2O + NOx NO2 and other NOx interact with water, oxygen and other chemicals in the atmosphere to form acid rain. Acid rain harms sensitive ecosystems such as lakes and forests. The nitrate particles that result from NOx make the air hazy and difficult to see though. This affects the many national parks that we visit for the view. NOx in the atmosphere contributes to nutrient pollution in coastal waters. Such exposures over short periods can aggravate respiratory diseases, particularly asthma, leading to respiratory symptoms (such as coughing, wheezing or difficulty breathing), hospital admissions and visits to emergency rooms. Longer exposures to elevated concentrations of NO2 may contribute to the development of asthma and potentially increase susceptibility to respiratory infections. People with asthma, as well as children and the elderly are generally at greater risk for the health effects of NO2.
@@julianbrah5873 Hydrogen ICE produces significantly more NOx than Petrol ICE after being catalyzed. Hydrogen ICE also produces Amonia and N2O. Hydrogen Fuel Cells are more than twice as as efficient, and they only have heat and water as byproducts. Do some research please before you continue with your blind support for Hydrogen ICE.
No it's not. The fuel tank needs to be 5 times larger to travel the same distance as gasoline. Not to mention the terrible emissions from Hydrogen ICE. It's a cool idea, but terribly impractical.
I have a kit from the seventies I think that converts a 4 barrel Carter to lp that might be useful to look at the switching mechanics of that. If you want pics let me know and I'll try to find it.
can you guys do an emissions test of the exhaust gases coming right out of the headers? I'd be very curious to see how much carbon and NOx is being emitted while its running on full hydrogen. Also I heard water injection helps with reducing NOx emissions if you guys want to mess around with dual injection (tri I guess since this is dual fuel already). If it passes the emissions test straight out of the headers, that means we can throw away all the emissions equipment on modern cars, especially if its carbon neutral and has very low or no NOx emissions
my dream for my trusty old land rover 4.0 here in the UK i use standard LPG / autogas with the setup through a condenser but instead of supporting it here in the UK they are killing it even though it is cleaner than petrol. and i keep saying hydrogen is th future and we can run our ~V~8's on it no problem just need them to build the tech and supply the gas... keep it up and keep our v8's going please
This is where I want to see our future go. Excellent work.
hydrogen on-site made = FTW !
It's also more green than electric car, with rebuilding resource intensive battery pack atleast every 4th year. Imagine how much energy it takes to get the limited rare earths from ground to factory and to consumer. It's crasy.
@gmail account And there are some cars still running after 50 years, while most of them are long gone and rusted away. In normal daily use in colder countries, like the one I live in. Tesla batteries have approximately half the range when fully charged after 2-3 years. 4 Years is absolute maximum time you can use one set of batteries. Here is a video where local guys blow up a tesla when the owner lost the warranty after trying to fix broken battery pack in quite low mileage tesla. It can work in sunny california but it's not so good here. ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=beyond+the+press+tesla+explosion And this is why we need other solutions than 100% electric car everywhere. On top of that EV:s are boring while many like the sounds of sport cars-
@gmail account It may not be as efficient but there would definitely be demand for engines like this if normal engines eventually become regulated out of existence.
@gmail account You are right about the extreme cold weather, it's not good for any cars yet but so far petrol (or perhaps hydrogen powered combustion, or the fuel cell technology would suffice) is my only option. We have EVs in cities on people who have access to warm parking cave and/or access to charger for example at work place garage or atleast they have warm garage at home, which many in apartment blocks don't have. 5 000 people and less than 5 chargers per block makes quite a long queue lines.
I'm little sad I must say I really am glad to have a good conversation about this. These days people tend to join the extremes in every guestion and cannot tolerate people with differing ideas or opinions. Yet we still must try to coexist on this Earth.
Have a nice day/evening sir.
i would love to see how it performs under actual load like on an engine dyno .
Yes, gas vs hydrogen.
Toyota has a hydrogen powered Corolla, there's a video of it on RUclips and it sounds just like a regular 4 cylinder!
Check out mythbusters circa 20 years ago
Well the engine is still in the early stages of development so you'll just have to wait
deeply disappointing I'm afraid. This is pointless.
Man I've never been so pumped to watch an engine get up to 4k RPM! Great work!
Keeping the internal combustion dream alive!
It’s not dying anyways we can’t sustain our grid nor build batteries to supply electric vehicles to replace ice ones. You can run your fridge all year for less then it cost to charge electric vehicle under a month
Future of motorsports wont have to succumb to electric motor noises!
@@mikemikeyee It will. An updated Formula E will eventually replace Formula 1.
Why are people acting like gasoline engines are going anywhere anytime soon?
@@Thumper68 Fridge don't use that much power, not a good comparison. but still, without a miracle battery or fuel cell internal combustion will never even begin to die out.
This video remembers me of the old youtube content: real people showing fun things that they'd like to share.
Awesome!
Love to see work like this and that you are excited by it. Innovation is still alive. Never sell out, this is fabulous work to keep in your name and build on.
Heck yeah. This machine has still got a soul in it
my thoughts too. I'd be cool with this
I see alot of potential here! I have wondered about injecting vaporized water to reduce knock? Either way imagine a zero emissions hot rod that still has a normal engine in it!
There is no knock with hydrogen. You can lean it out up to lambda 7, which is almost as good as a diesel. Only problem is the low power density, direct injection and turbos are a must.
More uninformed nonsense.
@@blubb7711 That isn't true.... if you run it too lean it could create an explosive detonation. Its just harder to do. You can technically water inject on a hydrogen ICE, it just won't benefit anything but niche cases.
Wouldnt be 100% zero emission, as it will still burn some oil. But it will be alot better. Also i forget i think hydrogens octane rating is 130 (ron)
@@Colt45hatchback yes, that’s why 1g/km co2 counts as zero emissions. It’s hard to quantify it’s RON, some sources say 130 and some 150.
You need to control the fuel delivery and air delivery as a combination based off of a load multiplier just like a standard fuel table. I am sure you could set this up on an aftermarket engine ECU such as a Holley EFI system, and using both MAP and IAT sensors you could control both the throttle body for air and using a MAC valve on one of the outputs on the Holley system to control your fuel solenoid. You need a large supply and a large hose to the solenoid, with the solenoid being as close to your injectors as possible.
plenty of people running custom systems and SBC on stock 0411 PCMs... now that they are free to unlock.
What we should do is try to see if we can get that water vapor exhaust to condense in an intercooler and then return the water to an Electrolysis unit. There was a guy who made an amazing design for such a machine. He had specific sizing for the metal plates.
@@joshuawhite3411 LOL specific sizing or not, it takes electric energy for the electrolysis and it will require more power from the engine to run the electrolysis then you will ever get back from the Hydrogen gas that was produced if you pipe it back into the engine.
@@milanswoboda5457 Bullsht you run the electrolysis unit of your Alternator which you buy in many different Amperage outputs so all you have to do is either replace your original alternator with a much higher amperage unit, or install a second alternator to your engine DER. Lmfao.
@@fullboostturbo1 LOL someone is an absolute genius here. Newsflash, an alternator will require power from the engine in order to make the electricity and it will pull more kinetic energy from the engine than the electric energy it generates in accordance to the electric load connected and with it the engine will use extra fuel to turn that alternator which converts the kinetic energy to electric energy. Get yourself a bicycle bottle generator and turn it by hand with and without a load connected, you might learn something ;)
Congratulations on a successful test, what a step for such an awesome tech
Ran my VW 411 LE on LPG basically on same setup way back in 1980 to work and back every day.
Electrical Foreman didn't believe so I demonstrated to him.
Was quite cheaper than running on petrol at time and much cleaner burning on spark plugs and exhaust with no bad effects on engine.
Two years before that I ran same car on 100 % ETHANOL with minor adjustment to Dwell angle in Distributor, magnificent increase on power.
My father was a tech since 1971 and growing up in the world of combustion i've been sad to think that will die within his life span. Hydrogen!!! Thank you for this video. I can picture my v6 jeep running on hydrogen one day so I dont need to give up on combustion.
Would love to see more engine testing and see how good you can get it
I’m not nearly intelligent enough to understand the engineering that went into this, but I will say that is one very very smooth running small block!
This is what RUclips is made for, not empty content
Keep this up I believe in this. Just need an efficient way to store hydrogen
Currently hydrogen is not up to the task. A vehicle can only carry a fraction of the energy available in gasoline do to vessel size required for pressurized hydrogen. Liquid hydrogen requires an enormous power hungry refrigeration unit to transport. So neither is practical. Only if some new technology comes around that can store hydrogen as a liquid or solid would this be viable. And remember, hydrogen is not a source of energy, it is only a storage of energy, and not a very good one currently. Gasoline is a source of energy. What about developing a fuel cell that transforms gasoline into electricity and it's byproducts in a non-polluting manner? Imagine an EV with a 3-5 gallon tank and 1000 mile range?
Duh it's in a bottle
@@jamesclark830 Incorrect use Hydride safe hydrogen storage. They don't want cheap easy energy. ruclips.net/video/wRqqzt6Xe1M/видео.html
@@jamesclark830 this !
@@jamesclark830 cosworth catalytic generator. Yawn. Looking at putting one in my hybrid v8 build. But as for an all ev. The market will already be saturated enough by the time hydrogen and e-fuels are developed enough to balance things out. Develop it all.
I love how excited you are!
This was exciting to watch! I’d love to see where this goes. Funding & Optimization will take this soooo far
BMW have been pouring plenty of cash into this, they still can't make it viable.
Very good, I am capturing part of your video and solely for the purpose of proving a legacy engine can run and performs better running on hydrogen than on gasoline. If you are having problems with consistency in maintaining fuels it’s because the engine is carbonated. The floats are actuated by liquid. Once the fuel bowls are empty it’s difficult to meter the fuel. This is why the RPM’s increase once the gasoline is gone. It’s because you are using a regulator that you are able to precisely control the the fuel. If the engine were EFI you could control it with a conventional throttle and timing.
Amazing, thanks you so much for your hard work. ❤
There are no floats to contend with.
Wow it seems your video has caused quite a stir! very cool. well done man!
congrats brother, that was awesome to see
Glad to see it's not only possible but sounds amazing! Good job!
I honestly knew it would work, it’s about the ratios and air flow rates and hydrogen flow rates, stoichiometrically speaking
Good Job man, I enjoyed your enthusiasm as well!
So great to se that the combustion engine has a future. The sounds are very important in the mororsport and the car community..👍😁
I love your enthusiasm. Thanks for sharing
Your excitement reminded me of Doc on “Back to the future” ! 🤜🤛
I have a all forged turbocharged gen1 sbc 383. I love that engine.
Incredible! Great work, sir!
"It ain't got no gas in it!" 🤣 Very impressive project! Well done.
Dude this is seriously impressive.
Love the enthusiasm 👊🏻
This is for all of us with old cars that can't afford a new one.
I hope this technology takes off to the masses so we can once and for all save the combustion engine all while being environmentally friendly
better make it known that you arent suicidal or have any death wish.... there was another fellow that had a hydrogen engine back in the 80s and he disappeared... god speed brother!!
Just don't try to capitalize on it. People only care cuz they didn't think of it first and on a mass scale it would render gasoline useless.
Did you build this? I mean seriously, this is incredible! That engine runs so damned smooth.
Yes - I built the entire engine from the ground up and the fuel delivery system
Well done Karl!
I would love to see some dyno results
Congratulations !!!
Thank you for keeping our dreams alive.
This has always been my dream for 1964 Chevrolet Impala!!!
Congratulations!
Can I ask what this is demonstrating? We know we can run an engine on this, or am I missing something?
I agree, it has demonstrated nothing.
Hydrogen burns very easily across a huge fuel: air ratio. This isn't amazing at all.
Then build one yourself and tell me how it goes...
As someone who is extremely bummed to see ev’s slowly take over I am a full supporter this is awesome! Hope this will be developed in the future!
Good work nothing like a sbc best engines ever imo.
Great work !
Do you change the timing?.. as hydrogen is more of a rapid implosion, the inventor of the JOE CELL used to alter the timing quite a bit.. great video, keep at it..
this should be out to market soon, we need more of you to get the word out there
The problem is how much hydrogen it uses. The better alternative is hydrogen fuel cells that convert the hydrogen to electricity and then run an electric motor.
Why bother with this technological dead end.
@@rogerphelps9939 clueless
Hydrogen is very, very, very small.
It leaks, no matter what you do.
It leaks through rubber seals, it leaks through gaskets, it leaks through pipes if given enough time.
Don't get me wrong, great idea; practical hell if you want to power an engine separately from an hydrogen producing facility.
Storage is almost impossible and if it leaks underground, it makes for an explosive combination that's virtually unstoppable.
@@TheGagabou ya, all of those problems you mentioned are mitigated by maintenance … which adds to costs. I read hydrogen is 8x less energy efficient because of generation losses, compression losses, transport losses, decompression losses, conversion losses. It seems the only industry where it would make sense is one where weight of fuel and batteries would be a barrier. Such as airlines and yachts. Massively expensive energy solution.
I love to see how happy he is, keep the work up, this may be the saving grace for all those who enjoy classic cars, as the push away from gasoline gets stronger.
That was incredible 👏
Great Experiment. 👌🏾👍🏾 I knew Hydrogen can be replaces with Petrol gas in internal combustion engines.
Cool, do you have a means of controlling egr to attain / co-equal the burn rate of petrolium fuel? If not then you might be running a fair bit more hydrogen than required? Have you considered hydrogen/argon or nitrogen pre-mix for testing? Maybe build a blame front test rig.
Argon doesn't burn. It's a noble gas. Nitrogen nearly doesn't burn, which is why it is used in fire extinguishers. We have enough nitrogen in our atmosphere already (+-78%).
They are not fuels. Quite the contrary.
Hydrogen and regular air are all that's required.
Additional fuel and maybe an oxidizer could be considered should more power be required, or to reduce the hydrogen consumption.
Reducing the hydrogen consumption would just mean you are going to burn more of something else (like gasoline).
@@detaart That's exactly my point. Hydrogen burns far too quickly for all of it's potential to be extracted to mechanical advantage. Mixed with noble gases it's burn rate can be slowed to be more efficient in a standard combustion engine. Noble gases are used prior to being mixed with air in the cylinder by normal means, so that the mixture is safe, and far less hydrogen is required. It's possible to add this Hydrogen/noble gas mix into an existing diesel engine without performance reduction. Expect to see this in mining equipment very soon.
@@scottneels2628 yes flame speed of Hydrogen is high if you have a stoichiometric H2 O2 mixture however if the stoichiometric mixture is done with ambient air you will have already a far slower flame front speed due to the high Nitrogen content. Adding additional non fuel gases to the mixture will furthermore increase a big issue with H2 gas in a naturally aspirated ICE and that is its very low volumetric energy density and with it it occupies a lot of space therefore limiting the amount of fuel energy available with a stoichiometric mixture in the fixed cylinder volume.
@@milanswoboda5457 in reality it takes significant egr to make hydrogen usage reasonable.
@@scottneels2628 significant egr? for what? to reduce a low efficiency even further?
I love IC engines ever
There might be some thing here with maybe a water injection system to try and slow the detonation down. Ping ping you gonna melt your pistons over time!
Im quite nervous about having a high pressure vessel like that on my car. Especially one with an element as hard to contain as hydrogen.
That being said, this was awesome to see. No backfiring, quite a smooth sounding operation, love it
Now i have a question. Is it a compression-ignition engine like a diesel, or does it use electrical ignition?
And absymal efficiency meaning prohibitive running costs.
This is a typical gasoline engine with spark plugs
When the Hydrogen kicked in, it definitely sounded like that engine really woke up!
This audible change is typical of all ICEs running on hydrogen
Nice work sir. 👏 now start testing with a load on the engine
Love to see the dino sheets, while running gas, and then the same motor running hydrogen.
That was intense! Good job :-)
YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOOOM!!!!!! AWESOME JOB SIR!!!!
YEAH!
Ever thought of using a propane carburetor/injection system?
Was thinking the same, i converted my old petrol tractor to run on lpg using a vapor gas system from my landcruiser, am re doing the system at the moment as im adding a turbocharger and water injection (water injection instead of an intercooler as they get blocked up too fast while im slashing grass)
Should be good, how it was before i was getting the same power as standard but with less fuel cost (more timing) but it was overheating due to the fuel not scavenging the heat from the cylinders. So water injection should solve that, plus the bigger throttle and plenum im making up should help too
I tried it on smaller single cylinder engines with my own mods. It worked except when your engine backfires during start up and blows the intake to pieces.
Why didn't you have your tank full before the filming?
Sorry - it came in the followup video running to 4000 RPM
YES!! This is awesome!
What compression is this running? Would it make any power? This is cool shit!
a typical crate motor...
Sweet as heck
Brilliant
don't you need direct injection to prevent detonation with H2 ?
7:28-8:00 was my favorite part aside from running on hydro!!
Amazing stuff buddy
Volvo H engines are running 700-800 bar on the H injection
0:11 "small block"
Great Job! Keep going! Wee need man like you
Imagine that, using our brains to evolve our technologies.
Is that stand built from 4' levels?
is it me 4:52 or does it seem like theres alot more oophh to the sbc with the hydrogen.
Theres a lot more power...
He’s like a mad scientist
Amazing. I'd love to see you making a muscle car with a hydrogen engine!
the excitement of ICE's
Once that engine is changed from carbs to injection then the Hydrigen/Air ratio problem will disappear.
You could automate the process with an open sourced EFI like rusEFI
Grande Enzo Salvi
is there any potential problem with combustion/cylinder wall temperatures?
The EGTs are 60º - 100º lower on hydrogen
This is definitely gonna be the future.
There's gonna be the people in new electric cars and hydrogen converted cars.
No
Clean ICE for the win!
Clean? Hydrogen ICE has horrible emissions.
@@zqzj wrong
@@julianbrah5873 H2 + O2 + N2 → H2O + NOx
NO2 and other NOx interact with water, oxygen and other chemicals in the atmosphere to form acid rain. Acid rain harms sensitive ecosystems such as lakes and forests. The nitrate particles that result from NOx make the air hazy and difficult to see though. This affects the many national parks that we visit for the view. NOx in the atmosphere contributes to nutrient pollution in coastal waters. Such exposures over short periods can aggravate respiratory diseases, particularly asthma, leading to respiratory symptoms (such as coughing, wheezing or difficulty breathing), hospital admissions and visits to emergency rooms. Longer exposures to elevated concentrations of NO2 may contribute to the development of asthma and potentially increase susceptibility to respiratory infections. People with asthma, as well as children and the elderly are generally at greater risk for the health effects of NO2.
@@zqzj you forgot about catalytic converters
@@julianbrah5873 Hydrogen ICE produces significantly more NOx than Petrol ICE after being catalyzed. Hydrogen ICE also produces Amonia and N2O. Hydrogen Fuel Cells are more than twice as as efficient, and they only have heat and water as byproducts. Do some research please before you continue with your blind support for Hydrogen ICE.
Does the ignition timing have to change between the gasoline and hydrogen?
No...
so you were controlling the engine rpm's from the mixture of hydrogen and air?
Yes - its manual
This is fantastic! Hydrogen ICE is the future.
No it's not. The fuel tank needs to be 5 times larger to travel the same distance as gasoline. Not to mention the terrible emissions from Hydrogen ICE. It's a cool idea, but terribly impractical.
Why don't you show the control panel and gas pressure
Quick question. How does the hydrogen system work in a combustion engine?
it is a separate fuel rail injection system.
Great!
This guy is an evil genius…..I love it
we need to make sure he his safe at all times.
A more realistic approach than the idea of everybody driving electric vehicles with the current battery technology. Thank you for your efforts.
I have a kit from the seventies I think that converts a 4 barrel Carter to lp that might be useful to look at the switching mechanics of that. If you want pics let me know and I'll try to find it.
Can you make 1H as cheap as petrol
can you guys do an emissions test of the exhaust gases coming right out of the headers? I'd be very curious to see how much carbon and NOx is being emitted while its running on full hydrogen. Also I heard water injection helps with reducing NOx emissions if you guys want to mess around with dual injection (tri I guess since this is dual fuel already). If it passes the emissions test straight out of the headers, that means we can throw away all the emissions equipment on modern cars, especially if its carbon neutral and has very low or no NOx emissions
You definitely get zero co2 on hydrogen, and you will get huge amounts of nox
@@sexyfacenation water injection can help with NOx. It’s been done to a hydrogen swapped coyote engine, look it up
my dream for my trusty old land rover 4.0 here in the UK i use standard LPG / autogas with the setup through a condenser but instead of supporting it here in the UK they are killing it even though it is cleaner than petrol. and i keep saying hydrogen is th future and we can run our ~V~8's on it no problem just need them to build the tech and supply the gas... keep it up and keep our v8's going please
Did the same in New Zealand with CNG & LPG.
Good job 👍🏼🇺🇸
As always the problem is where do you get the Hydrogen from...??!