Re: Generator Rebuilding

Posted by HH56 On 2011/2/6 10:37:05

It scares me what's going to happen to this hobby in like 20-30 years. It's going to be me and some Honda rice rocket guys trying to fit a Packard eight into CRX. :-/

Not to worry. Generator rebuilds won't be an issue without a running engine. In 20-30 years gas will be so high, it will be sold by the cup and your Packard won't even get a full tank without a second mortgage---if you can find enough for a full tank. That cup won't take it very far --- and you might even have to put the CRX engine into your Packard.

Just like alcohol and rubber today, whatever they come up with as tomorrows substitute probably will eat the steel parts along with the replacement rubber because everything will be carbon fiber, plastic and some future to be discovered exotic material by then. Tuning your Packard to run on it might even get interesting assuming it doesn't eat the engine. The substitute might even make ethanol look like the good old days.

Today's worry is trying to find a tank that will fit and look proper, tomorrows will be trying to find a replacement tank and parts made out of something that won't get destroyed by the fake gas and will fit & look proper in the correct spot.