Alcohol tank? Check. Butane tank? wtf? Vacuum tank? well? Cyclone heat exchanger? ???? Highboy '32 4-door? OK I have no idea what I'm looking at. Perhaps some of your more enlightened folks can straighten me out.
Somebody must have that April 1952 Issue of Hop Up and can give us the rest of the story. Cyclone Heat Exchanger = Turbocharger????
Isn't that Chet Herbert's chopped-n-channeled '32 sedan he used as a 'test bed' for his famous roller tappet cams?
Well, if it runs on butane, the heat exchanger would be used to prevent the system freezing up as the liquid evaporates into gas. Propane setups use the same principle; it's usually integrated into the regulator.
I'd say that TCTND nailed it spot on. Century carburetors were and still are used for compressed fuel. Propane or Butane earlier . Propane / Natural Gas Carburetors (centuryfuelproducts.com)
chet herbert badassery ,, car was a testbed for everything in his head , roller cams wayne head bad boy 6 , lots of trick stuff , chet was in a wheel chair so im thinkin 4dr made it more accessable to all the mechanical madness ,, car has been featured many times lots of info out there .. fabricator john miss you dad
Thanx to everyone so far. I'm somewhat familiar with Mr. Herbert and his Bonneville endeavors. Also that he was pretty much a mechanical genius and was wheelchair bound. However, I had never heard of this particular car or it's inner workings. Did the vacuum tank have something to do with the butane system?
I think it's a mobile whiskey still. Cops were too focused on looking in old sheds that they'd more than likely wander right by this. Plus, while the cops are searching the property, you hop in and move this to another location. Brilliant doesn't begin to describe
The vacuum tank could have been used to operate the wind shield wipers ( if it had any) or any other components needing vacuum at higher speed. My guess on the alcohol tank is maybe it was supplemented to the butane fuel for performance? It is done with deseil fuel.