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Re: Internal Engine Block Painting

To: Ed Weldon <23.weldon@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Internal Engine Block Painting
From: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:13:14 -0700
Some where in my pile of texts and documents, I have one on DOE. I'll 
find it or send you to a reference somewhere..

mayf
Ed Weldon wrote:

>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
>
>
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>
>>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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