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Re: Old Dogs, New Tricks, and Humble Pie...

To: DrMayf <drmayf@teknett.com>
Subject: Re: Old Dogs, New Tricks, and Humble Pie...
From: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 07:03:35 -0400
See now you have to go to Speed Week but be sure to bring a 12 pack with ya, and
be careful to keep it out of the sun and good and cold.. We can sit down and
split it while we figure something else out...Imagine the e-mail pressure later
on if you are a no show.. LOL..

Dave

DrMayf wrote:
> 
> Well, Dave nattered at me enough to see his way of thinking on the article
> about Effective Compression Ratio on my web site. Dad gummit, he's correct!
> Now I gotta do it all over again. Basically, I had ignored the effect of the
> temperaure rise during compression (a mistake I did not make in the turbo
> calcs, by the way and it was ignored because of the math involved). And that
> is significant at running speeds. Not too noticable when cranking to get a
> compression test value because the motor is generally cold and the heat of
> compression is easily lost. But when things are at operating temp and that
> puppy is running, the temp stays up and a smaller amount of heat is
> transferred to the heads and piston top. If you have an air compressor just
> grab the pipe that comes from the compressor to the tank. Yikes! HOT!.
> 
> Dave, I owe ya one! Catch me on the salt for reward.
> 
> mayf

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