Hydrogen Powered Muscle Truck: The Future is HERE! Supercharged LS Classic With Zero Emissions

nobody ever talked it that a hot rodder would want hydrogen we have no carbon at all we're at Arrington performance to check out this truck it says hydrogen on it and that's not a joke we need to figure out how this thing works the mad scientist here is Mike Copeland I know everybody's probably thinking oh it's hydrogen it has to be boring everything that's good for the environment is boring yeah this is a 6.2 liter GM LS we topped it with a Magnuson 2650 supercharger it's a LS3 block it had as LSA cylinder heads all the internals are forged it has a K1 crank K1 rods that's why scope Pistons has total seal rings in it you know there was just so much unknown so we wanted to over build it to the point that it could if we messed up and got too much timing in it or detonated it or whatever that it wasn't going to blow up so we over built it like crazy this engine makes 500 horsepower at nine pounds of pollution hydrogen has more energy but it's less efficient to burn so you need to make some power we have the opportunity obviously to turn the boost up hydrogen has a very high theoretical octane rating so there's not a straight conversion to get that number theoretically and and by all the testing hydrogen is equal to about 130 octane so there have been hydrogen engines run with 25 pounds of boost on an 11 to 1 motor there's a lot of opportunity we're injector limited so all of the parts as you can imagine are experimental we're working really hard to have some production based stuff coming and it'll be bigger we have 16 fuel injectors there are eight in this block that we machine and they're eight in the traditional location down in the blower so we have to use 60 because they're designed for like a small three-cylinder motor nobody ever thought that that a hot rider would want hydrogen I'm a hot router I want it they're just looking at under the hood the only thing that really sticks out is it not being a normal hot rod truck is like this yep what does that do that's the fuel regulator so we put uh we have 5000 PSI roughly in the tank we regulate it down to about 110 PSI at the injector so that's the regulator we put five thousand in it lets one 109 out this is the coolest thing because even I was blown away when I heard about this that is not a it's not boring it it makes 500 Horsepower Supercharged it's a V8 it sounds it makes all the right sounds yep yeah that was the big question right when we started down that path is what does it sound like and truthfully we didn't know we got it all together and the first time we fired it up all it would do was idle because that's how you kind of start the calibration world so it was sitting there Island I was behind the truck there's no smell at all only thing he gets a little bit of water out the tailpipes when you first start it and once the exhaust heats up that goes away I was standing behind the thing and I'm listening to it run I remember thinking to myself we just changed the world this is completely outside of the norm for what you would expect or what you would think you would see and here it is we can fire it up and grab it so we can hear it sure I know how you you said when you were at the Optima challenge that people thought this was fake yeah because you look at this thing from a distance it's this big thing in the back looks like a giant nitrous bottle and it says hydrogen huge on it like you almost think it's a joke like it looks like big Acme hydrogen bottle but you get closer and you're like wait a minute this thing's real yeah we have lots of people problems the truck looking for a gas tank because they didn't believe it would run on processed water processed water that's a that's a funny term this is just awesome foreign yeah it doesn't smell like anything it smells like hydrogen is unique from the standpoint that there's no cold in Richmond so if this was all gasoline we'd have to put a cold enrichment in it to add more fuel when it's cold hydrogen doesn't require that huh always already guessed yeah right because gasoline has a vaporize it you'll burn the liquid fuel so you have to when the engine's still cold it doesn't fully evaporate so you have to put more fuel into the light ends can't evaporate so you can get the proper air fuel ratio because this is already a gas going in right where it is yeah we increase the RPM just a little bit based on temperature to give it uh because of the cold of the oil yeah yeah doesn't that sound awesome yeah it's like regular hot rod truck yeah if I did Legacy the tank and you got it and drove off you would not know yeah couldn't even tell where the tailpipe for now I could see the are coming out nothing literally nothing but what happens if this was running in a garage and you've we're like letting it run in there would you kill yourself no you could let this run in your garage with the door closed forever yes until it ran out of fuel you could literally I mean you got temperature right exhaust temperature but excluding the temperature you could put a hose on the exhaust run itself mask and and just stand there and breathe forever we brought emission tests on it we ran EPA certification test FTP 74 FTP 75 and us06 which are the three key kind of tests to validate your where you're at emission wise and there is no carbon it actually there's more carbon in the air than comes off the tailpipes so it actually cleans a little bit of the carbon out of the air as it burns it interesting yeah with EPA test they actually put the vehicle in a controlled cell and they look at everything that comes in and they everything that comes out not just the tailpipes the evaporative everything out of the entire vehicle but you could have some gear Loops built on a header and that would always throw off oh yeah oh yeah yeah you got to make sure you have no leaks and the engine in this is based on a 2014 uh Cadillac CTS-V or a 2014 Camaro so either LS3 or LSA they take a the government takes a all of the emissions it puts them together and they come up with a number and it's defined as a bin this engine when it was new was a bin 150. lower numbers are better so in 2023 a brand new Corvette is certified at bin 125. they've gotten that much better the government regulations have changed that you have to be that much better our first run with this truck with no catalytic converters no exhaust after treatment no tank evap because we don't evap anything right our first run was a bin 70. wow so we're that much better now in 2035 is when today all the regulations are slated to change and the requirement for 2035 is that they'd be a sulev rating which is once you get past Ben then you go to sue left and where it has been in about 15 been 50 50. all right yeah and then you go into Sue lab and it goes you know 40 30 2010. based on uh some knocks that we get at a couple specific points the heavy acceleration cycle we know where those are we're working to try to do them but we have a backup plan that will allow us to be Sue Lev 20. huh so is that even from the combustion or is that just like crankcase oil that's left on the cylinder wall uh we're not really seeing that you know even when we measure for carbon so our total SEALS or sealed up they're working exceptionally well and uh we have a little bit of an elaborate crankcase about you know ventilation system that that we created for this but what it really is is we just we have no carbon at all we just need to control in a couple of finite places to Knox our knocks on our first run was 0.086 the system we're going to put in will take 90 percent of that away I'm trying not to ask questions that I think you won't want to answer I just won't answer them what's the bin number or the Sue love number of like the the best gasoline burning hybrid car whatever that you could like a Prius or a something like that if you separate if you just do internal combustion engine okay because they calculate electric for for emission rate it's different than they do gasoline so if you use anything gasoline based I don't know of anything that's where we are today I don't know of anybody that's a pin 70 there's some been 90s mid 90s out there but that's some really small engine that that's really limited on Power and specifically targeted certain areas but I I think we're as good or better than any internal combustion engine in the world today and you're making over twice the power with the labels yeah we're fun the other ones that are making been 70 or been in either 90 we're probably five times the power they are oh so they're little Little Engines yeah and we're doing it with no exhaust after that's the big piece right there's nothing you've done literally nothing straight stainless exhaust right yep wow so that that's the hydrogen part of it right yeah so hydrogen it's impossible to make carbon with hydrogen you have to induce something that burns that creates carbon if you're going to get any carbon out of this truck I guess probably somebody watching this would think what happens if somebody rear-ends you in that tank pops well this tank is dot certified so for crash so this is what this they make them it states three and stage four this is a spun aluminum tank that's wrapped with carbon fiber so if you were to crash it it it it doesn't matter you it's it's almost impossible to puncture and if you did it would just the hydrogen will go straight up this is actually designed for use in a boss okay so they use them in a lot of they'll put a number of them on the roof of the bus so but there's a company to build these and uh this one was manufactured in Canada interesting story when we when we built this truck of course real tight timeline and I ordered this tank and it took me it was like an act of Congress right because when you go into this world if people don't know who you are and don't know what you're doing they it they're very suspicious and they've and they they're very guarded right so I finally get through the tank manufacturer they build me a tank I get all that we're shipping it into cust into the country so because it was made in Canada custom seized it because they thought it was a bomb right yeah right yeah so we made the truck run using welding tanks full of hydrogen so when we showed up at SEMA we didn't even have a fuel tank because Customs it actually arrived here on opening day of FEMA so but you know there's so many things like that and so many pieces of this this battle to get this thing to running and driving and and get to where we are today you know we're not a huge company right we're not we're not some well-known whatever OE or whoever and so when I call these companies and say I need these parts they're like what you need what yeah I do what are you doing with it well I'm building a truck if it runs on hydrogen you can't do that yeah I know you can't but we can't I've seen other videos on YouTube it's it's weird because there's not a whole lot about this and I don't even know if this video will get a bunch of views because I think somebody might like manipulate it behind the scenes hopefully not but the popular videos about hydrogen are the people saying bad stuff about it that it will sit in your tank and go away after three days or something like that because they don't understand permeable and they never engineered for it there's liquid hydrogen there's gases hydrogen right liquid hydrogen has to be maintained at a cold temperature like minus 128. in the past BMW did some work where they did a liquid hydrogen car and they actually use the hydrogen to create the cold to keep the tank to keep the hydrogen as a liquid so that actually depleted it over if it sat for two weeks it would empty the tank right if you're using gases hydrogen and any of it ever comes out it depletes it's because you up a leak it doesn't require to be maintained at any temperature it hot it builds more pressure than it does cold but it doesn't require any specific takes in a gas estate you can use it at 350 bar which is where we're at you could do 700 bar which is where like the Toyota Myra the the fuel cell car that's where they're at and then there is a 10 000 PSI rating and uh but that's not uh not very popular as an example every Amazon distribution center in the world as well as every Walmart Distribution Center all their high lows run on hydrogen so they're all fuel cell so they use hydrogen to create electricity to run this to run the truck so they manufactured outside refill on site and that's what they do so people don't know about it they don't think about the fact that hydrogen is all over the place they just think that it's the Hindenburg yeah well I thought you said the people that have all their negative comments about stuff hydrogen on YouTube and stuff in the different videos and you know we've seen the guys with the Whiteboard and they tell you why this engineering explained right yeah it's okay this this one I watch that video too and I'm watching like this guy hates hydrogen he hates ethanol this guy hates everything right but the reality is like hey don't tell the engine that it won't work because it doesn't know any better but it's working right so I get it you're this is what you used to think in theory right you're messing all this stuff out and I'm not against that but the reality is that engine doesn't know that it's working it does all these things everyone says it can't it does it does it over and over again so it's like shut up with the people that are typing and theorizing theory is only Theory yeah this works it's not the real world right it it actually works because you can combust it and utilizing direct injection and turbocharger turbo charging but supercharging you can get the efficiency that people say you can't right and obviously you guys are working really closely with the Bosch and your other engineering Partners to figure out how to manage the the pros and the cons of the few I said get that list of 12 things you started off working on and I when I first started talking to you you'd work through like nine of The Twelve now you said this morning but you've got them all like now yeah yeah we got 12. yeah yeah and there's still more right right but we but that was the common 12 issues that people had been trying to do hydrogen and said hey you make so much progress then you kind of run into this wall so yeah here are these 12 hurdles that you got to overcome to make this real yeah yeah and the nine of them we saw before we even had this running yeah so but it helps that you had some friends that were part of the project have been working on this for it's not like y'all just picked this up no no two years ago you had guys been working on this for decades they knew what they were doing yeah I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express and get up the next morning to build this okay have you engineer anything or designed anything you take you do the analytical work and the analytical tells you you do this and you get this you do this you get this you do this you get this right so a lot of what the 12 issues were were because of analyticals I'm not an analytical guy right I mean I know it we do it all those things but the reality of it is I was a technician before I was an engineer right I question the norm and that's how we got where we are with this is is the people that support me the people from Bosch they listen and they respect me when I question and then together we work on a solution to solve it this is the proof this is the solution yeah yeah it just works I think that's uh says a lot about you know you were a technician before you started the Engineering Process a lot of these Engineers will come out of school and they'll draw up blueprints for stuff but they don't understand how things actually work in the real world or building things and they'll draw blueprints that won't actually work because they don't know how things work yeah they have to load yeah you have to pay to learn yeah yeah see all this gray hair I've been paying for a long time this will be one of those things to look back on when I'm an old man be like I remember the first time I rode in a hydrogen vehicle I was only 27. there you go now everybody has one I'm afraid to like close this [Music] this is t-56 It's a tkx okay I guess I could look at that by looking at the knob you guys built the Hellcat charger for roadkill didn't you we did yep yeah that was that was the first I had heard of Diversified Creations first ever Hellcat swap in the world so you've got a long history of being the first ever something in the world this is just part of it I did my first LS swap in my barn in 1999. wow three we're gonna GM back then yeah [Music] good enough yeah that makes all the supercharger sounds you'd expect why did you choose this truck I had it oh good enough plus I needed something it would get attention the handle's good yeah what kind of suspension you got on it it's a full TCI chassis oh wow 2.1 double adjustable coilovers it's got their brakes on it 14 inch rotors 650 calibers it's kind of a cloud clutch in it got a Mojo rear axle it's a 350 ratio with a Detroit crew track take that Spectators you would never ever know you would never know it makes it makes all the right sounds that makes power okay yeah honestly this didn't work it won't run it won't go huh how about that this thing is faster than what you would expect a truck that looks like this to be because most of them are just you know they got a 5'3 in it and some Flowmasters or something they're not making power they're just looking cool yep well obviously you could tell when a blower comes on and uh yeah we're only at nine pounds of boost so it when we get bigger ejectors we'll turn that up so I think it's realistic to make 600 650 maybe with this and this is a kit that you plan on offering so other people can do this to their yeah I'm sure what we're working on for this type of package is that uh I'm working with the EPA we're going to certify it for um swapping into into kit cars so if you build a new kit car we want to be certified for that so people will be able to buy this package bolt it into their Corvette Grand Sport kit car their whatever cheetah kit car they're off-road dune buggy I think this is the future of Motorsports I think it is too because EPA can if there's no carbon if there's zero emissions essentially this is a way for Motorsports to be able to take off the street off the uh lot streetcar convert it to go racing and not damage the emissions so all the stuff about the whole RPM acting all that whole fuss like where the EPA isn't happy with racing this is the solution to it it makes it where people can go buy production cars they can convert them you can actually build custom built race cars I mean NASCAR should be looking at this versus anything else this is where it needs to be because it's it's the answer right now I think it's the only answer electric cars are fast for a little while I mean I have a customer with a Tesla plant and the thing's horrifyingly fast like the first three times you step on the pedal and then the fourth time it's nowhere near as fast and if you run it hard like that it depletes the battery in no time plus which cars halfway through the race there's no sound and this is a flameest part yeah it's the lack of the sound Ford built a Mustang with electric motor in it one of their Cobra Jet cars it runs mid eight right I go to Las Vegas Motor Speedway every year at SEMA right before SEMA for the NHRA race when they make a pass the line gets long at the beer tank because nobody cares to watch it right it just goes you hear the tires squeal and it goes Nobody Cares no right passionless yeah yeah the sound I mean think about people complaining in Formula One about from the V10 error to today that it's not the sound isn't there it is muffled it's just not the same passion there's no personality right to me this is this has got that guttural sound it's acceleration it's combustion you hear it you feel it it's all the things you want in a competition type engine so to me it's like yeah it's this is what Motorsports should be looking at and adopting as our future so that we can be compliant with what needs to happen in the rest of the world we can still go race we can still have fun we can do it clean you can do it with hydrogen and oh by the way it's only the most abundant element in the universe there's no shortage of hydrogen anywhere yep is the technology there for someone to have fill stations at their house like as this progresses could you have the thing to produce your own hydrogen at home ultimately you will be able to not right now you know the thing you still don't want to forget the hydrogen is explosive right if you hit it with some kind of play it'll burn right I get people that call me all the time because there's a lot of information on this and what we're doing out there and I got a guy that called me two weeks ago and he wants to take hydrogen and spray it above his carburetor and thinking that the engine will pull it in and it's going to work I said no no don't do that yeah he's like well no I think it'll work I said if you're wrong you're dead it's that simple yeah right this requires trained professionals to do this experts in the field you you just don't go off and half do this right it could be like making your own Dynamite [Laughter] I'm gonna mix up a little nitroglycerin because that sounds like fun yeah then there's a big hole where your house used to be right but but you have to do it safe you have to do it with the right level of components we've gone to Great Lengths to engineer every component that's in this vehicle and we've gone to tremendous amounts of safety we we follow so Bosch General Motors a number of society Automotive Engineers all have defined safety practices for working with hydrogen we follow all of them right it's not worth it for me to have somebody that works for me or myself or whatever to get hurt I I it's all of the development in the world and all of the technology in the world and all the accomplishments aren't worth a human life absolutely so you have to do it safely and that's what we do did this thing all started with a retirement party and then we're sitting in a conference room afterwards just de-essing well in 2011 I built a car for Jay Leno a 2011 Camaro with a twin turbocharged direct injected B6 first time direct injection has ever been turbocharged Bosch did the ECM for GM in that car so I contacted Keith and we'd worked together to build Jay's cars okay part of our deal was that I supplied him with an additional set of parts so they could use those parts to build a car of Their Own because as they said when you go to meet with an OE or a big manufacturer or whatever it's one thing so everybody comes in does these beautiful PowerPoint presentations talks about all this stuff but he said it's one thing to do that it's another saying if you want to drive it it's in the parking lot right right so they built that Camaro I helped them put it together they still have it from 2011. so they we got on the subject of you know hydrogen and all kinds of other stuff and they asked if if I would be interested in converting that car to hydrogen so we talked about what they wanted out of it and what their plans were everything else and it just didn't make sense to do that car okay but I had this truck sitting on a hoist it was really just a cab sitting on a chassis nothing else done and I and I said what if we build this truck you support me with what you know about hydrogen I'll take care all the rest we'll build the truck we'll build the engine we'll build all the fuel system components use support with injectors and ECM and some calibration support and let's build this and we'll debut it seems I have a deal with Redline oil where every year I put a new car in their booth at SEMA so most people aren't lucky enough to have that kind of guaranteed spot right yeah yeah exactly yeah right but redline's been a great supporter for a long time so so anyway we just we agreed to do it so we set about building a truck we it took us 10 weeks to build this that's body paint interior engine chassis full I mean 10 weeks from the time we started until we fired it up and took it to SEMA it's been a battle we've learned so much I have some great people that help me my chief engineer Al butlin phenomenal and and he has so much knowledge and so much skill and it was things like if you've never been in hydrogen it's the smallest molecular structure known to man right it's also the lightest element known to man so if I release it it goes straight up as fast as it can travel right if I use traditional like stainless fuel lines like we use in cars or hot rods it will permeate right through it yeah to keep that hydrogen inside a stainless line it has to be quarter inch wall yeah right so every piece you have to look at that way that tank went full is 350 bars so 5074 PSI yeah okay it's got two safety valves if it were to actually have something happen it'll Bend itself if you set hydrogen on fire it it we did a test with Bosch where we created a hydrogen leak and actually lit it it goes up so fast it mixes where the atmosphere put itself yeah right so there's a lot of misinformation everybody thinks about the Hindenburg you know because that was the paint that was burning not the stuff inside wasn't it well in Hindenburg they took a cloth balloon because they needed it light but the hydrogen permeated right through the cloth so they used seven chemicals and then coated it with aluminum so when they hit the power line the aluminum create a short blew a hole through it there are very few pictures that I had when that happened to the Hindenburg but the hydrogen you can see it escape and it goes straight up right big flame but it puts itself out it burns three times as fast as gasoline as far as we know no one into Hindenburg died from the fire they died from a crashing it got a lot of bad press still the number one question that people ask me today right yeah Hindenburg but this tank is DLT approved been through all the testing with the Department of Transportation well you mentioned the buses and I think about we were in California not long ago to do that video they'd think and they actually have public buses sure in L.A that run on hydrogen and they probably use those exact tanks they do yeah they make them in different sizes obviously but this one is uh it holds just over three kilograms of hydrogen yeah so and it's been that way for a while I know there's a from where edelbrock's building was in Torrance down the street there was a Shale hydrogen station it's been there for years yeah yeah it probably at least five or six more more years California is the only state currently where they have commercial punks that you just pull up to and buy hydrogen there's a lot going on with it they're building a bunch of them and it's coming I know in this channel we typically do history videos this is more current but I believe that this is history in the making like we said before a lot of the popular videos on YouTube about hydrogen are ones that are saying why it doesn't work well for every great thing there has always been a million people saying why it doesn't work why it can't work why it's a bad idea blah blah blah blah blah and then it takes one guy to look past that and actually sit down do the work and figure it out get away from the chalkboard and get a wrench in your hand and just do it now there's a lot more stuff we talked about off camera that uh we can't tell you but you'll find out about it in due time it has a car Enthusiast I think it's our duty to make sure people know about this so send this to a friend post it on your social media Pages do whatever you can to get this out there because the system may not do it for us I don't think it's in our favor when it comes to this topic hopefully you feel like this history in the making too because I do hair on my arms standing up right now we are not at the mercy of the fun suckers not at all it got stupid one person at a time it can get better one person at a time be that one person for your circle it will change but nobody's going to come out of the sky and just fix it it's a one person at a time one day at a time deal and it's going to take all of us and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss any of the awesome stuff coming up and check out all the stuff we've already done lots of technical lots of History lots of racing sneak peek race car back there for those of you who watch everything we do has not been shown anywhere yet but uh we're getting there [Music]

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Length: 33min 15sec (1995 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 29 2023