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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 09:40:36 -0500
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Subject: NT Crocs and EWP Data was  Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Ordered my EWP
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Season's Greetings to All from the Middle Antipodes,

Yair Rusty, it's about them crocs.  I have it on excellent authority 
from my old mate Jarrawalla from Borraloola that 9 out of 10 
Northern Territory crocs definitely prefer women - especially young 
maidens - he tells me that they will go for the Lubras nearly every 
time (It's the dragon syndrome - remember what happened in the 
Garden of Eden,  the story of St George etc??),  which definitely 
counts me out - I'm too old,  too tough,  ... and  ...   

I also happen to be  a cold weather bloke that hates the fetid 
humidity of the tropics,  (Tasmania is more my style!),  so the 
LAST place you would  EVER catch me is in the NT in the middle 
of Summer!  So be warned, ... I am still alive ... !  

I think I also mentioned on the newsletter that I was having several 
weeks off to go and do "other" things which had nothing to do with 
cars,  aircraft etc.. I am still in the process of doing those "other 
things"  which "things" have taken FAR longer than expected (don't 
they always),  and are still  in progress ...

So as for the EWP test data,  it IS coming,  like Armageddon! 
(which  might be closer than we think,  given all the "wars and 
rumours of wars" and this current military madness which seems 
to be infecting certain "Principalities and Powers",  but I do digress 
...  )

As mostly everybody has now gone AWOL Down Under,  the dyno 
testing will now have to wait until the madness of the DUXHIMS 
(Down Under Xmas Holiday Internal Migration Season)  is over 
towards the end of January.  Only then do the milling hoards of 
seething humanity and their (unruly) offspring return from the 
(over)crowded holiday dedstinations as their holiday paychecks run 
out and they all are forced to go back to work! 

The 22nd of Jan is the earliest I can get on my mate's new dyno. 
He has just purchased a DynoPack dyno,  a non-roller chassis 
dynamometer,  and will need careful calibration before it's fully 
operational..   See:

http://www.melfab.com.au/dynopack/

It connects directly to the hubs (you take the wheels off!),  so there 
is no variability as the tyres heat up and lose grip (I've seen a tuff  
turbo 3 rotor turn tyres to licorice on the rollers ),  no tyre noise,  
no problems holding the tyres on the rollers,  and the only power 
losses are the drivetrain losses (mainly diff as the tests are run in 
top - 4th/ 1:1 direct - gear). 

This thing is so accurate and sensitive,  it is possible to tell the 
power differences between how the plug electrodes are clocked!!  

(Oh dear,  I wonder what I have started here! ... for those who doubt 
my sanity,  please read what:

http://www.nhra.com/dragster/1999/issue25/racing_technology.html
and
http://www.automedia.com/xml/pht/pht20001001sp.xml?Template=:
template:is_template.htm

has to say on plug indexing before any of you pillory me on this!

So probably close to the end of January - very early Feb now before 
I have incontovertible,  reproducible data.  (I want to try it on at 
least two different cars with different motors 1 turbo,  and 1 non 
turrbo).

I have to make sure it is RIGHT!   However,  preliminary data does 
show that the EWP does actually perform as advertised. I never 
doubted it for a minute,  much to the chagrin of certain 
mathematically challenged individuals!  

So stay tuned. I don't want to go off half cocked.  It's a bit like that 
shampoo advert,  "It won't  happen overnight, ... but it WILL 
happen".  In the meantime,  I'll keep myself gainfully occupied 
doing those "other" things  which have nothing whatsoever to do 
with cars,  aircraft etc..  

Cheers and Compliments of the Season to all,

Leon


On 27 Dec 2002, at 18:30, Ed Anderson wrote:

> MessageHi Rusty,
> 
>     First, Leon is alive and well, heard from him over Christmas. 
>     Don't know status of Dyno effort, he appears to be in the process
>     of moving his project shop at the moment.  
SNIP>>

>   What ever happened to our mate Leon's dyno test.  I wonder if a 
croc
>   got him :-)
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>   Rusty
>   13B powered RV-3 (experimental aircraft)...Be Afraid :-)
>   1993 RX-7 R1... Mods underway, tickets to follow


Best Wishes & Kindest Regards,

Leon Promet
Aerota.com
leon@aerota.com
0408 223 675