Re: Traction Control

[Bryan Savage <basavage@earthlink.net>]

Dave,
Electromotive also has external timing controls. I think all modern 
boxes have them because
of the widespread use of Nitrous by the Sport Compact folks.
Bryan

Dave Dahlgren wrote:

>Ya know if a guy used a dual point distributor and hooked the second set up
>to a deal that switch one set off and on he can do the same thing and retard
>the timing. MSD also makes a little knob deal that will input to an MSD and
>control the timing as well. they say it is for bad gas and that sort of
>thing but you know they are fooling everyone cause if you feed 2 wheel
>speeds into a frequency to voltage converter and then to an op-amp to
>subtract one voltage from the other and compare that to allowed slip you
>could feed the MSD a voltage to retard the timing.. You can do the same
>thing by feeding the tach signal in to two frequency to voltage converters
>and have one of them have a filter with a suitable cap so the rate of change
>could be adjusted you just compare those and if she is picking up speed too
>fast you retard the timing as well or set off the rev limiter but that is
>too obvious. hell just go to the IBM patent server and look up Davis
>technology and see how they did it..
>Dave