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Re: Ford engine to air compressor conversion
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Posted by Nolan on March 31, 2000 at 06:16:10 from (209.48.190.195):
In Reply to: Ford engine to air compressor conversion posted by CY (OHTN) on March 31, 2000 at 06:04:15:
The company you want to talk to is called Smith (real original). They make air compressor conversions for v-8 Ford engines. We've had them in at the shop I used to work at, and the units work quite well. They use a different head on the one bank of cylinders. As for using an N engine, that would be more problematic. The firing order precludes simply blanking off either end of the engine. At least if you want the engine to run smoothy. You'd need to blank off either the inner two or outer two sets of cylinders. You could achieve at least a moderate result replacing the spark plug with a check valve and piping it to the air tank. This assumes clean and unrestricted air available to the intake for the compressor cylinders. You obviously don't want gasoline mixtures here! You could greatly improve the results by removing the lifters from the valves of the compressor cylinders. Leave the exhaust valve and spring in place, sealing it off. Replace the intake valve with a very weak spring that the vacuum could draw open. This would get you compressed air on each rotation of the crankshaft, as opposed to the every other rotation the above method would yield. It's all doable, but of questionable worth. You would probably better serve yourself by either using a rotary screw type compressor mounted onto the complete engine, or using a compact engine and compressor unit. Using the N engine complete on a trailer would allow you to mount up various components to it, like a compressor, welder, generator, pump, etc. Especially if you work carefully with a belt or chain drive.
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