Also, if we're barelling down the road at speed, we have to figure the
delays as explained by Einstein's relativity theory.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Nock" <healeydoc at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Richard Ewald" <richard.ewald at gmail.com>
Cc: <Healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] ingnition leads
> So with these calculations we had better add some wire to the front
> marker lights so that the from marker lights, tail lights and dash
> lights do not have any delays in coming on.
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> David Nock
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> Stockton Ca 95205
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> On May 31, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Richard Ewald wrote:
>
>> For those of you that are math inclined.
>> Speed of light = 186,000 miles per second
>> 186,000 miles per second = 982,080,000 feet per second
>> 982,080,000 = 11,784,960,000 inches per second. That is eleven
>> billion,
>> seven hundred eighty four million, nine hundred sixty thousand
>> inches in
>> one second.
>> Having one spark lead 1" longer will delay the spark by
>> Are you ready for this?
>> Are you sure?
>> *0.000000000085 seconds.*
>> *Holy shit, that is going to throw your timing on that cylinder all to
>> hell. </sarcasm >
>> *
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Ed O'Neal <ed at wadsworth-eng.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Just a tidbit of info from the WFS Garage. Each spark plug
>>> ingnition lead
>>> should be of the same length so that the time for the spark to
>>> travel from
>>> the
>>> distributor to the spark plug will be the same for each cylinder.
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