Thanks for the warm welcomes.
My mileage background:
I only wish I remembered everything I once knew. They say the memory is the second thing to go.
I started modding cars at a young age and obsessed with fuel economy. The Carb Research Center of Foyil OK, got me started with early books from Allan Wallace, "Secrets of the 100 mpg Carb" series of books and the early Hyco stuff from Wiseman.
I chased down Don Novak, Allan Wallace, Ogle's business associates anyone I could that had ever gotten extreme fuel economy. A friend of Pogue once called me. He had a carb for sale. I was broke so contacted Don Garlits and it now sits in his museum.
My relationship with Mike started when he replied to my ad in a magazine (in print!) remember those? The first time I called him it lasted 4 or 5 hours....that became the norm in a time before flat rate long distance, our phone bills exceeded rent.
Mike, his wife Faith, and I started an online sight promoting energy/fuel economy etc.
I found Bruce in the early days of the internet. It was his connections/contacts that got Mike and I involved with Pantone/GEET. Both of us becoming dealers and Mike moving to SLC to work Research and Dev. I was brought in a couple times to work summers in the shop and at one point earned status as a key player in the business plan. It was a dream 'job'. Doing what we love/obsess over. Meeting an elite group of inventors.
Attending various Tesla and Exotic Research conferences allowed me to meet my "hero's"... Paul Pantone, George Wiseman, Joe Newman, Stan Meyer, Dennis Lee, Jeane Manning, Eugene Mallove and others.
My work in NJ... was primarily with the HAFC kit. I helped consult to resolve issues with their early unit. I helped develop the controls and training program and became a Master Trainer for the HAFC kit. (Still have access to a few if anyone is interested).
The PICC was a continuation of the GEET and came about from a brief period of time when Pantone and Lee worked together as I recall. If I'm not mistaken was called the TEEG ?
At any rate, I've been in a sort of semi retired funk in regards to mileage and it's time to start playing again. The toys/tech that was in the various shops was amazing...yet nearly 20 years later... still isn't in wide spread use... wtf?
For now I'm getting my new test vehicle road worthy. Plugs, wires, tuneup(grade) O2's lubes etc.
At this point it still has issues but I'm above EPA rating for it
Seriously tossing the PL around, but at this point I don't know if the budget allows me to put $$ into something I can't even use on my demo vehicle. Maybe later with an intake and ecm swap (to something tunable)... Part of the challenge for me is to do it cost effectively/cheap. I just parted ways with a free Jeep Liberty, a gift from my sister in law... Drove two years and got to 316xxx miles before she gave it up. Sold it for $400 and the spare engine/trans misc parts I had laying around for that much more.. that is my baseline budget to get the replacement / Blazer on the road.
Grant