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Http://thelastoutpost.com/video-3/automotive/the-incredible-firestorm-sparkplug.html

Krupa interview and detailed analysis and history of the design and development process behind the Firestorm plugs. Also includes indepth discussion of Krupa’s decision to commercialize the patent instead of making it open source. Clearly that hasn’t worked in our favor as we still can’t buy one at the store but his company may already have profited substantially from the decision by being paid to keep it out of production for the past 10 years.

Posted here in entirety as public record…

First, let’s look at what Krupa’s FireStorm spark plugs give an internal combustion engine:

More horsepower; 44–50% increase in mpg; Dramatic decrease in emissions.

Second, let’s see what FireStorm plugs eliminate:

Smog pump; Catalytic converter; Radio frequency interference (RFI) and the use of resistors in the centre electrode; Gap growth; Exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) systems; Misfire/hesitation/detonation/stutter and stumble.

How, you may ask, is all this achieved? In a word, plasma. The revolutionary design of FireStorm spark plugs creates an electric plasma that fills the entire combustion chamber like a firestorm. It allows you to take an internal combustion engine from the standard 14.7:1 air-to-fuel ratio to an incredibly lean 24:1. At this ratio, all the air/fuel mixture is burned much more efficiently without increasing heat, thus giving an engine more power and fuel economy while creating much less pollution. That’s the good news.

The bad news is that you can’t buy a set of FireStorm spark plugs anywhere right now. No spark plug company wants to make them. Robert Krupa is no stranger to the way the automotive industry and spark plug industry operate. He has worked as a technician, then as an engineer for GM and Ford.

Krupa explained: “Before I entered college and earned a BS [Bachelor of Science] in engineering, I was taking electrolytic capacitors and mounting them to the plus side of a distributor, which would smooth out the electrical pulses going to the distributor and the spark plugs. With that little improvement, I was able to make cars run smoother. So, that was the start of this engineering journey I am now on.

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