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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
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