If squeezing another mile from that last liter of petrol has been like no other relief, here comes happiness to you in TWO forms. First is that you may now not spend on the more expensive fuel i.e. petrol but diesel and then the cherry on top is that you get to run 110 KM in a liter of it. (Yes, confirmed!). A group of newbie engineers form a Bangalore based engineering college, all inspired by their motto of achieving more fuel economy have developed a prototype of their project which is a diesel powered motor-scooter which does 110 kmpl in actual life. The team consists of mechanical engineering students from M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology. The basic construction of their project is that they have fitted a diesel Bullet engine to a Kinetic Blaze scooter, amazingly being able to retain the automatic transmission and clutch from the Kinetic scooter itself. Guided by their mentor and teacher Dr. S V Prakash four mechanical engineering students namely Naveen V V, Tony Paul, Nadeem Anwar and Sanjay Bhushan attempted and achieved success in completing their project which they completed as the final year project for the college final year examinations. The engine swap was not a breeze as many technical changes to the engine parts had to be made including reducing the engine displacement from 350cc to 200cc. As a part of the weight saving measure the team was also able to bring down the weight of the flywheel to a mere 7 kg. The power output of the engine has also been bought down to 3.5 bhp from the original 6.5 bhp. The team in total spent 77,000 and is pretty confident if the project is mass produced, the cost would come down to approximately 55,000-57,000 rupees. The need for such economical transportation is in a direct opposite relation with the ever increasing fuel prices. The prototype costs 40 paisa per km compared to 1.70 Rs when compared to the closest petrol counterpart. The efforts of the team have not gone in vain as the Kirloskar group has shown interest in the project and will be further providing assistance and aid to the team in bettering the technology, churning out a fine tuned and maybe more fuel efficient engines for future. Source:indianmotosblog.com