Guys,
Maybe Ramon had something more along these lines in mind:
http://www.pushrod.inter.net/utterfilth/index2.htm
Bob
At 11:17 PM 9/1/98 -0400, Marc James Small wrote:
>At 07:53 PM 1998-09-01 -0700, Bob Palmer wrote:
>>
>>The way I figure, Mk I or II, it's 16 x 45 = 720 bucks, plus another $45
>>for the one with the clutch makes is $765. That leaves about $435 for tax,
>>shipping, and handling.
>
>Bob
>
>You've got Ramon's math backwards. $1200/$45 per rod = 26 2/3 rods.
>Subtracting the one for the clutch, this means Ramon's remarkable car
>exceeds all expectations in that it has 3.2 valves per cylinder. Or maybe
>it has the conventional two valves per cylinder, but he uses 1.6 rods per
>valve. It all depends on how you do the math; we need more data to
>complete the picture.
>
>After all, straight arithmetic really can't be THAT complex!
>
>Marc
>
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>
Robert L. Palmer
Dept. of AMES, Univ. of Calif., San Diego
rpalmer@ames.ucsd.edu
rpalmer@cts.com
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