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- From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Agro-Barbarian)
- Subject: Re: VDOs in general
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- Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Agro-Barbarian)
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:32:53 GMT
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- banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking) writes:
-
- >My, it has been a while, hasn't it? Exhaust manifold pressure is
- >pretty spurious unless you know the PV=<something> formula and have
- >the constants etched in your frontal lobes. Exhaust manifold
- >*temperature* is much more interesting.
-
- That's PV=nRT, also known as P1V1/T1 = P2V2/T2 (all numbers
- are subscripts). No, the reason I want the pressure in the manifold
- is to see how hard the huffer is working. Manifold temp? Wouldn't
- your cylinder head temp readings be just as informative?
-
- >Reminds me of the guy in the 30 year old Porsche Roadster at PIR,
- >commenting that in the third lap of his race, he noticed the manifold
- >temp on #3 had gone to 0. He finished the race on three cylinders.
- >The amazing part is he *won* and beat JZ by two laps.
-
- What excuse did JZ use for this event?
-
- --
- < Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
- < ISU only censors what I read, not what I say. Don't blame them. >
- < "This isn't an answer, it's a pagan dance around a midnight fire >
- < written in intellectual runes." -- Rich Young >
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