- 1. [Land-speed] Odd car related stuff... (score: 1)
- Author: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:37:50 -0800
- Have any of you looked at these doohickeys? I wonder.. http://www.pulstarplug.com/howtheywork.html <http://www.pulstarplug.com/howtheywork.html> Also, my latest Harbor Freight has leakdown testers at
- /html/land-speed/2008-02/msg00034.html (7,348 bytes)
- 2. Re: [Land-speed] Odd car related stuff... (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:25:29 -0500
- If you look at the gains they are mostly in engines that are poorly designed combustion chamber.. The fuel takes a finite time to burn no matter how you start the fire... a million watts for 2 billio
- /html/land-speed/2008-02/msg00039.html (8,134 bytes)
- 3. Re: [Land-speed] Odd car related stuff... (score: 1)
- Author: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:03:18 -0800
- I looked at the web site. The plug may help on my '71 F-250 but it won't have any effect on my '79 Ford Ranger. Why? The wiring diagram that they display, is of a breaker point ignition. Modern ignit
- /html/land-speed/2008-02/msg00049.html (8,354 bytes)
- 4. Re: [Land-speed] Odd car related stuff... (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:30:28 -0500
- I think most passenger car systems are still inductive just replacing a transistor in place of the points. The system will not generate a voltage that is higher than the resistance at the plug gap. I
- /html/land-speed/2008-02/msg00050.html (9,629 bytes)
- 5. Re: [Land-speed] Odd car related stuff... (score: 1)
- Author: <neil@dbelltech.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:29:14 -0700
- I think it's a case of someone reinventing the internal gap spark plug. Spark plugs seem to be an area where miracle "breakthroughs" are claimed with monotonous regularity. And while I'm at it: 1. A
- /html/land-speed/2008-02/msg00051.html (9,636 bytes)
- 6. Re: [Land-speed] Odd car related stuff... (score: 1)
- Author: <neil@dbelltech.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:34:55 -0700
- Sorry to burst the balloon but I couldn't help myself. :) As far as the car is going, it is dead slow (the progress, not the car). I've been occupied with a few other things recently-- we just insta
- /html/land-speed/2008-02/msg00057.html (10,870 bytes)
- 7. Re: [Land-speed] Odd car related stuff... (score: 1)
- Author: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>
- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:10:38 -0800
- Dave is correct, of course. I don't know what to call the ignition management system on the new MB V-12. Maybe a modified for the road, laboratory fuel-air igniter. Thanks Dave Neil came up with the
- /html/land-speed/2008-02/msg00058.html (8,792 bytes)
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