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Turbopackman wrote:
People gripe about performance and lost power, but actually you can gain power if you tune the engine right and increase the compression ratio.

So, increase the compression ratio, update the rubber components in the fuel system, and advance the timing a little and you should be good to go. Oh, and you can run a hotter spark plugs that will help as well.

HH56 wrote:

EDIT: As to the Hydrogen, there was a splashy announcement when the guvinator took office that he has going to have fill stations up and down the state. As usual, politics and money got in the way. As far as I know, only a few experimental cars are running around--usually in a convoy with press coverage--& there is a fill station only here or there. As I understand it, the car mfgs have seen no need to push the program aggressively or make the cars, the fill stations are expensive and no cars to take advantage of them and oil co's are working against it. There was a plan to require a significant number of cars sold here to be low or zero emission by a certain date, but that was watered down -I think to almost nothing- because someone would have to pay for it and no one wants it out of their pocket.

Turbopackman wrote:
Depends on your idea of simple and inexpensive, but yes, yes I do.

HH56 wrote:
Both not financing and not enthusiastically supporting. Not hearing of much action, there was a followup status interview a year or so later with some of the people that appeared when the program and media blitz happened right after the guv took office. Cost of technology, lack of funding and interest was given as reasons it hadn't moved much.

One of the petroleum companies that was mentioned originally as being a participant pretty much said then (2-3yrs ago) his company was currently not participating in the program because of the cost. Went on to say there were cheaper and more proven alternatives his company was looking at. Last I heard, there is only one fill station locally and that is in conjunction with a federally financed grant with buses and some city fleet cars. No idea how much mileage one gets but don't think there is anything for the public between northern and southern Calif and that's a pretty long stretch.