Yes the Tour de Sol: The Great American Green Transportation Festival is back. The college I go to has a team that races in this road rally event for alternative fuled vehicles. If you are near Baltimore MD, Washington DC, Sandy Point State Park MD, Philidelphia PA, Trenton NJ, or NYC please stop by and say hi! My team number is 18. I won’t be there but anyone from the team would be happy to tell you all about our Hybrid 1989 Chevy S-10 that runs on LPG and Electricity!
Ok here’s the scoop on Philly!!! 10:00am - 2:00pm on Eakins Oval off of Ben Franklin Pkwy near 16th(?) St. If your school has scheduled an outing there that’s great and if not catch you next time. Look at the website in my previous post for details about the whole event and look for Team 18 from CT if you do make it!!! Tell somone on the team that Elgin sent you!!!
alright… sounds like a plan… i think that thats worthy of missing school for… i’ll come for the beginning of the day, then just happen to miss the rest of the day… i’ll be sure to look for your team… i wanna see what you guys built…
Team 18 will NOT be on tour this year due to bad luck at the emissions testing station where the person doing the test revved the @#$% out of the truck. Then on the way down to the starting area in Maryland (quite a drive from CT I might add) the head gasket went on the truck!!! ARGHHHHH!!! So maybe next year we’ll catch you!!! If you want to still go, so be it… There are a lot of good competitors in the tour but unfortunately we will not be one of them!!!
Elgin, replace the head gasket, it takes an average person 1-3 hours to do it right, though it can be annoying. Your vehicle is incapacitated for a half a day with it; go on the tour. I’ll coume out and support ya too. You can do it.
Its over now, i’m home… a little more sunburnt than before, but it was a good time. There were a lot of really cool cars and such. I was surprised @ how many high schools were entered in the competition, i thought it was a college comp. shrug I wish i’d gotten to see your car. I liked Chryslers “Boron-Salt Car” and the Yellow Chevy that another team had… maybe an S-10?
Well, from what I remember, the guy was saying that there is a lot of this Boron Salt stuff here in the US, in death valley. The way it works is like, the mixture is put in as normal gas is. Then, through a natural reaction, the stuff splits and creates heat, which makes it split more (or something). And then whats left over is like hydrogen and Borax. They hydrogen is the fuel and the Borax is the byproduct which can be recycled and made into new “gas”. I prob left some important details out. It was a lot cooler when the Chrysler Rep said it. A friend of mine got one of their engineers e-mails addy’s so that he could get info e-mailed to him, would you like the e-mail address or I’ll just get the e-mail forwarded to you?
