From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 8 00:20:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA27740 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:20:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from micro.internexus.net (root@internexus.net [206.152.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA27732 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:20:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cliff@cliffsworld.com) Received: from c.f.ains (ppp13.internexus.net [206.152.14.204]) by micro.internexus.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id DAA14511 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 03:20:29 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19971008032129.00758dbc@mail.internexus.net> X-Sender: compatriot@mail.internexus.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 03:21:29 -0400 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: cliff ainsworth III Subject: FreeBSD Project Truck '98 In-Reply-To: <199710080501.OAA00853@word.smith.net.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Morning all...................... >> Barometric pressure, moisture (as long as we're dreaming ;) Important for carb adjustments and great just to know anyway. > Even a cheap accelerometer is easy to look after. I think I was reading an article a year or so ago in Circuit Cellar about some guy who made one of these for his Saab 9000. I will have to find it. >This is when they're working, or after they've become small rototillers >dragging clumps of the roadway behind you? ROFLMAO I would like top thank you all for such a great response. This should prove to be an interesting project as it progresses. My apologies to anybody who might not find this 100% pertinent to this group. This is the company that we hope to a partial sponsorship from <> for our dashboard. But we are going to wait a while before we contact them. If all goes well on our end we should have carbon-fiber driveshafts and extrude-honed heads/manifolds, US Gear Under/Overdrives which takes you automatic or manual tranny and overdrives each gear. Meaning a three speed is now a six, and a six speed Viper tranny is now a 12 speed transmission. B&M makes a tranny fluid sensor. We are going to push for all of the "chasing the rainbow" technologies so that we have a better shot at a world record. The guy who broke it last didn't really do anything special to his block. So we have an edge there. There are a number of companies that make sensors for tailshaft measurements. So that shouldn't be a problem. VDO from what I remember makes a sensor for just about everything. Stewart Warner probably makes the others for racing that VDO forgot. Jacobs <> if I am not mistaken makes a crank trigger for Chrysler ignitions FINALLY, so we can sense off of that. If they don't, MSD <> probably does. Turbo Hi-Performance magazine has enough companies listed that picking up the other sensors shouldn't be a problem. Interesting point.....When G.M. was promoting their extensively and I mean extensively modified Cyclone pick-up several years ago out at Bonneville the engineers discovered something. As the pick-up got up around 200 mph they lost radio contact with their vehicle. The later figured out that at those speeds on the salt flats a static shield envelopes the vehicle. I hate when that happens :) They probably could have thrown a 75' piece of wire out the window and had it work fine though. Until I get all of the official information here, I believe I will be making a 125 mph pass to qualify the vehicle because it and myself have never been on the flats before, then a pass each way through "The Flying Mile". If the vehicle shows promise (150 mph +) I believe I can go on the 8 mile course. If we can make 140 I'll be satisfied, as I cannot make body modifications in this class and a 1973 Dodge is about as aerodynamic as...............well..........a 1973 Dodge =) Thanx for the info on the Bosche stuff, the next project race vehicle will be an A-21 Fuel (45% water, naphtha and the rest is gas) conversion on a 1987 Audi Quattro. But one scraped knuckle at a time. Thanx again for the enthusiasm. -cliff ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CLIFFSWORLD homepage-- "Open Throttle" web-zine-- Quake-Clan "RIP" homepage---- PGP v5.0 public key available "Do not stare into the FDDI port with remaining eye" (Paraphrased from the Cisco 7206 installation guide).