From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 8 01:52:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA04284 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 01:52:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA04272 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 01:52:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.gsoft.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA01690; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:19:39 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199710080849.SAA01690@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: cliff ainsworth III cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Project Truck '98 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 1997 03:21:29 -0400." <3.0.3.32.19971008032129.00758dbc@mail.internexus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 18:19:39 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Morning all...................... G'day! > >> Barometric pressure, moisture (as long as we're dreaming ;) > > Important for carb adjustments and great just to know anyway. Oh, carby. _That_ stock, hmm. 8) > > 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. If you can do DGPS, an accelerometer's only good for improving your peak readings (DGPS will still only give you per-second or so resolution). > 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. If they don't, we can discourage them. 8) > 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 [... stuff ...] Hah. So much for a budget exercise! > 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. True. Also possible that just shifting frequency might help, but short of finding something to run 300+K's on Lake Eyre, I can't actually suggest anything as a solution. This may also upset your GPS, depending on the nature of the field. > 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. Ow! Ow! Ow! If you have a spare one of those left in road condition, please to be letting me know so as I can dream about owning it... 8) mike