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- From: jamesm@lunch.austin.ibm.com (James Miller)
- Subject: Re: How hot can an exhaust manifold get ?
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- In-Reply-To: Peter.Barrett@newcastle.ac.uk's message of 21 Jan 93 15:44:37 GMT
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:07:09 GMT
- Reply-To: jamesm@lunch.austin.ibm.com
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- In message <C17nqE.EBK@newcastle.ac.uk>, Peter.Barrett@newcastle.ac.uk (Peter
- Barrett) writes:
- > A few years ago one of the UK motoring magazines published a photograph of
- > a high-performance sports car (it might have been a Lotus Esprit Turbo, but
- > I don't really remember) after a high-speed run. Not only the manifold, but
- > also the whole turbocharger, was glowing a *bright* red.
-
- My Dad told me that when he was a kid in St. Louis in the Twenties, he was
- standing in a gas station when a hot-rodded model T Ford came screaming in the
- driveway. The driver jumped out just as the car came to a halt and started
- yelling something about stopping his engine, which was plainly visible because
- the covers weren't on (a hallmark of hot rods even then). Dad said the whole
- block was glowing red -- it couldn't be stopped because it was dieseling.
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