Mayf--
You could have a lot of fun with a fairly consistently performing car
running simple designed experiments at Bonneville, or anywhere else for that
matter (like on a dyno or drag strip) where you can consistently load the
motor the same way and capture data with good instrumentation.
How about trying to come up with an explanation of DOE that the technical
wonks among us and the 2.5 GPA engineers can understand? Might be a neat
exercise for one with your experience for those cold winter days out there
in the desert when you'd as soon ignore the machinery in the shop calling
your name.
Or can you recommend a website or software that is fairly easy to use (and
buy if necessary)?
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>
To: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
Cc: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>;
"Higginbotham Land Speed Racing" <saltrat@lubricationdynamics.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: Internal Engine Block Painting
> To me the data looked statistically irrelevant. In typical Hot Rod
> fashion, they seemed to take one reading and move to the next condition.
> If we tested aerospace products that way we would all still be look up
> at the sky and wondering. In order to be meaningful, they should have
> taken a number of readings to determine the characteristics of both the
> motor and the dyno itself. However, they seem to assume that each is
> perfect and that one run defines the spread. They need to read design of
> experiments to ascertain how to test thingmajigs in a manner that
> produces meaningful results. ..........mayf
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