Tom Ogle achieved 100 MPG with a Big V8 in '77 - Here's How He Did It and Why You Can't Have It

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CyberGhost: https://cyberghostvpn.com/Driving4Answers Support the channel by shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3FLpqzm Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/d4a Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwosUnVH6AINmxtqkNJ3Fbg/join A Special thank you to Mina for giving me the idea for this video! This is Tom Ogle from El Paso Texas. In 1977 he took a Ford Galaxie, a car that inside it had a big block v8 engine which in it’s natural unmodofied form has the fuel efficiency of a top fuel dragster and the performance of a tata nano, however Tom Ogle modified the engine and fuel delivery system of the Ford Galaxie and then he together with his assistant and a Journalist of the El Paso Times took this car and drove it from El Paso to Deming new Mexico and back, that’s a 200 mile round-trip, on just 2 gallons resulting in a fuel efficiency of 100 MPG. Before the journey and in front of an audience the gas tank was fully emptied and only 2 gallons have been poured in. Members of faculty of the El Paso university and other independent experts also inspected the car before the journey to verify that it had no hidden fuel tanks. So how did he achieve 100 MPG. By vaporizing the fuel before it got into the engine. He completely removed the carburetor and the fuel pump from the engine,and he heated the fuel tank using engine coolant so the fuel starts to vaporize in the tank and then he piped the fuel vapors directly into the intake manifold where engine vacuum pulled them in. The vapors where combusted and the engine ran and powered the vehicle. So the engine was literally running on fumes. A few months later Ogle obtained a patent pending on his invention. In 1977 The U.S. was in the middle of an energy crisis, and many corporations, including at least one oil company and two car manufacturers, and even the U.S. Air Force, expressed interest in buying Ogle’s device. In 1978 Ogle sold the rights to his Gas-Saving invention. Advanced Fuel Systems Inc. (AFS), a company in Washington state, had bought the manufacturing and marketing rights. The contract sp ecified Ogle would receive an unspecified amount of advance money, 100,000 shares of AFS stock, six percent royalty on sales of each device, a monthly salary and the right to visit AFS About two months later, the Securities Exchange Commission filed a complaint against AFS, saying the company had violated provisions of the federal securities laws. Ogle and his backers became entangled with legalities. By 1981 the legalities were not untangled and the invention was still not on the market. In April of Ogle was shot in the stomach by an unidentified man. He survived but his hospital room was guarded by police. In August of the same year, 26 year old Ogle was pronounced dead of what medical examiners said was an accidential overdose. Allegedly he was drinking alochol while also consuming 20 pills of Darvon, a tranquilizer. He left no suicide note or a will. Even though Ogle had legal and money problems, his friends and lawyer refused to believe that he would have deliberately taken 20 Darvon pills in addition to drinking heavily. His wife inherited his estate and the rights to his invention but bit invention never made it to market. What’s that I hear……..ah yes it’s the increasing heart rate and the adrenaline glands of all the conspiracy theorsists watching this. This does sound like a proper conspiracy theory doesn’t it? Incredible fuel efficiency invenvtion surprpessed by government/big oil/lizard people….but that’s not what we do on this channel. Here we give answers to questions and today we are doing a deep dive into Tom Ogle’s invention to learn hwo, surprisingly, there is some legitimacy in this invention and how it could actually improve fuel efficiency of even the most modern direct fuel injection engines and then we will learn the realt reasons why it never came to market. A special thank you to my patrons: Daniel Zwoa Meda Beda valqk Toma Marini Cole Philips Allan Mackay RePeteAndMe Sam Lutfi Cakeskull 00:00 The Story 07:54 How it Works 11:47 The Problems #d4a #fuelefficiency