will it run on paraffin?

In any case it would be illegal, and if you follow your idea of switching to a second tank once it's warmed up, that will take a lot of explaining away if you are caught!

true unless its a farm vehicle and limited to 25mph, same level of trouble as running a diesel on red.

the answer is yes it would if you can get the engine hot first, if you wish to use heating oil put some petrol with it and try to use one of the octain increasing addatives you can buy, i once ran a 3.8 mk 2 jag from devon to oxford ( i was skint) on one gal of 5 star to 5 of parafin with no problems outher than a bit of pinking up hill

i dont see a problem mechanicaly , if the exhaust manifold preheats the inlet manifold like on my 2a it would start on petrol and run on parafin once hot, ( military twin tanks with selector would work ) i have run old petrols on celulose thinners ( bit too hot burning) meths, mixed parafin petrol, if its for road use yer better be carefull
on the negitave side the valves will prob take a hammering etc, and the only parafin yer see now is in the little 5ltr cans fer space heaters etc,

as said before , heating oil makes nice diesel - as does parafin. but heating oil is thicker than parafin, so no good as petrol , non combustable with spark systems,

still, if i run a series 1 , i would run it petrol, i get 9mpg out of my series 2a, who cares ,

9 mpg I care, fookin hell, a formula 1 car does 7.5, a 40 ton arctic does 10.

As for pinking count to 5 and you've got a hole in yer piston, detonation knocks spots off valves, pistons and the head.

nigmill said:

no sorry you could try tvo but not paraffin by its self but i think the tvo would have to be at least 80 percent petrol then you got to think about the strip down it it blows up but i could be wrong

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TVO aka Tractor vaporising Oil is .... guess what ... PARAFFIN!
No more, no less.

TVO engines are ALL spark ignition engines.

Your Landy engine MIGHT run on paraffin / TVO once it was very hot, but I suspect it would not be good, and it would be poor on acceleration. Tractor engines usually work at very low revs (2,200 max mostly) and constant speeds.

TVO engines have special VERY hot zones in the INLET manifold to vaporise the incoming atomised spray of fuel.

CharlesY

That sounds dead right charlsey, and theres little argument: TVO tractor vapourising oil, is there.
I think they put something else in, unless I'm getting mixed up I recall a smell of victory v's from tvo, maybe a little ether just to help ignition.
In an earlier post I said some tractors started on tvo and ran on diesel, well its that long sin I might have got that screwy, its more likely they were started on petrol and then switched to tvo, makes more sence, and complies with what you say charlsey.
If theres a leyland type tvo tractor engine, theres a possibility if you can get one of fitting the fanimold to the 2 1/4.

dr pepper said:

That sounds dead right charlsey, and theres little argument: TVO tractor vapourising oil, is there.
I think they put something else in, unless I'm getting mixed up I recall a smell of victory v's from tvo, maybe a little ether just to help ignition.
In an earlier post I said some tractors started on tvo and ran on diesel, well its that long sin I might have got that screwy, its more likely they were started on petrol and then switched to tvo, makes more sence, and complies with what you say charlsey.
If theres a leyland type tvo tractor engine, theres a possibility if you can get one of fitting the fanimold to the 2 1/4.

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The other thing about "petrol-paraffin" engines is they had very LOW compression ratios because the octane rating of TVO/kersosene/paraffin/ 28 seconds heating oil, is DIRE. But with low compressions and low revs, like in an old Fergie Tractor, governed at under 2,000 rpm ploughing, it was fine. I was 12 when I first "ploughed" a field, and that was using a petrol-paraffin Fergie. What a mess I made! It was like a WW1 trench warfare zone after a night of heavy shelling.

Try the Series on kersosene, but you MUST get it up to full heat first before swapping over to the kerosene. You, and every car behind you, will smell the kerosene fumes very disinctly. The smell will be a dead give-away.

Charles.

Yep, a low octane fuel requires a low compression ratio, iso octane slows down combustion and helps prevent 'knock', low ocatne fuel will knock or 'diesel' with engines designed to burn petrol, and that'll knacker them, higher ocatne fuel like modern petrol can withstand higher compression.
If you lower the compression, power will go down, and mpg, pretty much eveything.
And if the exhaust stinks, the local plod will be on your tail, as its probably illegal.

Interestingly boy racers think that super high octane fuel like avgas will make their cars go quicker, it doesnt, it make the possibility of more power possible but on an engine made for standard petrol it wont make any diffo (unless its an expensive saab or beemer which have knock sensors and auto tuning ecu's that make the most of the fuel).

how does nitrous work?

2 ways, it contains a large amount amount of oxygen which is released when its heated in the chamber, which means you can dump a load more fuel in with it (which gets around breathing restrictions of getting enough air therefore oxygen) in the chamber, which means more power, the more nitro and fuel the more power.
Also because nitro vapourises in the fanimold and chamber it absorbs heat relieving the engine/valves and plugs of the extreme temperature, and also provides a sort of intercooling effect, enabling more power to be made.
There are diffo nitro kits available, from a gentle boost to a shed load of power.

on the nitro thing years ago you used to get water injectors for cars, these would give more power and very smoth running, what about using hydrogen-peroxide? this should give all the same things as water but with added oxy, should go like buggery!

Hydrogen peroxide never heard about that tell me more.
Saab have been known to use water injection, by itself it doesnt improve power, what it does do is help prevent 'knock' therefore you can higher the compression ratio without the danger of pre-ignition therefore you can increase the power output on standard petrol.
There were in the 80's popular systems available for the mini that used water injection, and they went like fook, as long as the water lasted.

aint h/peroxide wot they bleach hair with?

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aint h/peroxide wot they bleach hair with?

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teeth whitening usualy mate

Also good for cleaning sinks i believe

H/peroxide that is not teef

Hi yes peroxide is used as a bleach, in common with most bleaches it is full of oxgen
water is h2o and proxide is h202 i think, if you mix this with some other things you get a lot of oxigen driven off, 9 sorry to be cairfull about this but it has been used in certan high profile cases that resulted in people getting locked up! i think in a car engine it might be interesting

Yeah does sound interesting, I've heard of a few tricks but never hair bleach.
I had nos on a mini a long time back, it was a shed, but it fecking went with a bit of nos down its neck.

If I was to install a glow plug into the inlet manifold of a petrol series land rover. And ran it just on paraffin, so that the glow plug vapourised the paraffin before it entered the cylinder.

Do you think it would start and run on just paraffin?