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The goal: 100 mpg at 70 mph, into a 30 mph headwind, with four bags of groceries.
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Chap. 33: New gears for the Helix
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This is what the Helix final drive looks like
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| Jan Vos of Belgium is well known in fuel economy circles as the machinist who made a new gear set for his Burgman to slow his engine down. He presented his work on ecomodder .
My Helix Streamliner project is stalled out because I need new gears. I don't know how to make them because I am not a machinist. You can imagine my delight a couple of weeks ago when I received this E mail: |
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What a gear cutter looks like
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| Hallo Craig. I still follow your progess with the Honda Helix. The looks getter better with latest modifications.I think you need for improvement of the MPG a higher gear ratio at least 20% higher than you are using now.I am willing to make that for you against a cost that you cannot refuge.I made a big jump in MPG with my Suzuki Burgman when using the new ratio.It will be spur gears, that is the only type I can make.What do you think? regards Jan Vos |
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| What did I think? "Its a miracle" is what I thought! Just how many people are there in world who can and are willing to do this? Jan and I exchanged E mails. All I had to do was send him a set of gears from a Helix and he would do the rest.
I knew where there was a set of gears. |
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| My old friend, Ernie Buckler in Spokane, Washington is an eclectic fan of FF (feet forward) machines. He once mentioned that he had a spare trashed Helix engine. But the drive train was good.
He offered to send it to Belgium. It got there in 3 days! As I post this page, Jan is cutting new gears to slow my Helix engine down 20%. |
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Feb 19, 2010: Jan is making gears faster than I can put them up on my web page!
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| Craig. I received the gears today from the wire EDM shop. End of this week the gears go to a shop for hardening. Typically this takes a week and a half. When they are back they can be finished in one day. regards Jan |
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Page posted Feb 17, 2010
Updated Feb 24, 2010 |
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If you have not yet watched my DVD, How they Got 470 mpg it is time to get it for the basic foundation for what we are doing here
