Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 03:21:29 -0400 From: cliff ainsworth III <cliff@cliffsworld.com> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD Project Truck '98 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971008032129.00758dbc@mail.internexus.net> In-Reply-To: <199710080501.OAA00853@word.smith.net.au> References: <Your message of "Mon, 06 Oct 1997 12:33:07 CST." <199710061833.MAA01027@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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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 <<http://www.dakotadigital.com>>; 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 <<http://www.jacobselectronics.com>>; 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 <<http://www.msdignition.com/>>; 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--<http://www.cliffsworld.com>; "Open Throttle" web-zine--<http://www.openthrottle.com>; Quake-Clan "RIP" homepage----<http://rip.internexus.net>; PGP v5.0 public key available "Do not stare into the FDDI port with remaining eye" (Paraphrased from the Cisco 7206 installation guide).home | help
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