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201. Re: Why? (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 01:05:01 -0800; Why? F = mA or in case you need it spelled out A = F/m Duh. And you call yourselves car guys? sheesh! -- I've found something worse than oldies station that play the music I used to listen to. Oldies; /html/mgs/2003-03/msg00755.html (6,887 bytes)
202. Xeno's Garage (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 00:59:28 -0800; The plan for today was to take care of a few things on the car, pack it up and head up to Thunderhill. I got email the other day from a friend asking me to teach with the Miata club this weekend. The; /html/mgs/2003-03/msg00789.html (10,028 bytes)
203. Measuring piston rise (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 18:18:26 -0800; It took me all weekend to do it, but I finally made a widget that will tell me where the carb piston is, while I'm driving. I don't know if it is peculiar to my setup with the blower, but if I take t; /html/mgs/2003-03/msg00804.html (11,817 bytes)
204. Re: Which way is the thread ? (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:14:57 -0800; Say, what year is that Undo anyways? -- I've found something worse than oldies station that play the music I used to listen to. Oldies stations that play the "new" music I used to complain about. lrc; /html/mgs/2003-03/msg00806.html (7,245 bytes)
205. Re: Xeno's Garage (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:33:15 -0800; Yeah, I feel that at this point, if I were to start all over, with a fresh MGBGT, I could do a half decent job of building what I theoretically have. When we go and hotrod a production car, what we a; /html/mgs/2003-03/msg00808.html (8,721 bytes)
206. springrates, checking my SCWAG (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:47:58 -0800; It seems that I've got 550 lb/in springs up front. I measured them to 533, but apparantly the part number says 550. Likewise by sitting in the back and measuring the difference in height (3/4") that; /html/mgs/2003-03/msg00809.html (7,059 bytes)
207. Re: Strange Striper Advise... Is this for real? (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 01:14:10 -0800; OK folks, I admit, I'm an obnoxious pedant, but a striper is someone that puts paint on (in narrow stripes) and a stripper takes paint off. -- I've found something worse than oldies station that play; /html/mgs/2003-02/msg00000.html (6,811 bytes)
208. Drive report (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 11:35:41 -0800; I went to double check the calibration of my click type torque wrenches. I realized that I couldn't securly mount the beam type, but that I could securly mount the click type. The handle of the beam; /html/mgs/2003-02/msg00027.html (9,261 bytes)
209. Plugs [warning, likely to be a religious issue] (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 12:14:17 -0800; I've been running NGK BP6ES as the default plugs in my mowog cars for about 22 years. The store I bought plugs in yesterday didn't have the NGKs, so I got a set of Densos. Denso's cross reference to; /html/mgs/2003-02/msg00028.html (7,733 bytes)
210. There is hope for today's generation (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 15:00:26 -0800; I was at the hardware store looking for drain pans. I mentioned to the kid helping me find one that I wanted a low one as it was for my MG. He looked at me and said "Don't you need about eight of the; /html/mgs/2003-02/msg00030.html (7,260 bytes)
211. Re: Drive report (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 18:18:07 -0800; I spent the day futzing with the car. I may have been overly conservative when timing it. It checks out to 3 deg BTDC by my (cheap) timing light. Before retarding it the last time, pulling up a long; /html/mgs/2003-02/msg00036.html (10,563 bytes)
212. Cylinder pressure and predetonation (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:57:25 -0800; When I was driving back to work from lunch today, I was "designing in my head" a test fixture for testing head gaskets. Basically, take a block and attach a piston in one of the cylinders such that i; /html/mgs/2003-02/msg00057.html (8,557 bytes)
213. Pyrometers, mixture balance (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 21:16:29 -0800; Someone reccomended that I get an optical pyrometer and measure the temperature of the various header branches to see if cyl 4 might be running leaner than cyl 1. A friend who works for a company tha; /html/mgs/2003-02/msg00155.html (8,126 bytes)
214. Weekly donuts in Mountain View (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:59:41 -0800; I just found out, from two different guys that were there, about a weekly gathering in Mountain View. It's from 8-10 AM on Saturday mornings at the Krispy Kreme in Mountain View (Rengstorff, logical; /html/mgs/2003-02/msg00158.html (7,091 bytes)
215. Re: removing headlight trim (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:24:11 -0800; You just have to pry them off. They seem to be held on by a little springy thing, and force of habit. if you are worried about chipping the paint when prying (prising?) them off with a screwdriver or; /html/mgs/2003-02/msg00200.html (8,894 bytes)
216. Reading O2 sensors (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 17:12:39 -0800; I'm trying to dial in the carburettor on my MGB now that I've installed the blower. Rather than spending $100/hour on the dyno, I thought I'd try installing a mixture guage, so I bought the Nordskog; /html/mgs/2003-02/msg00275.html (7,601 bytes)
217. Re: OFF TOPIC - PHOTO SIZING (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 02:22:08 -0800; For image editing, I highly reccomend the free/open source program "the gimp" www.gimp.org or if you're stuck using a "broken" operating system, there is a version for windows: http://www.gimp.org/~t; /html/mgs/2003-02/msg00287.html (8,964 bytes)
218. Re: Reading O2 sensors - oh oh ! (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 11:53:06 -0800; Paul, I was curious about this and stuck one of my oscilliscopes on the output of the sensor and I wonder if the S8942 is a wideband sensor because the output was DC, with some tiny (200mV PtP?) puls; /html/mgs/2003-02/msg00300.html (10,800 bytes)
219. Re: Reading O2 sensors - oh oh ! (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 22:50:47 -0800; For folks that are interested in O2 sensor discusions, this is my correspondence, with tech support from Nordskog.; /html/mgs/2003-02/msg00312.html (6,713 bytes)
220. Re: Reading O2 sensors - oh oh ! (score: 1): Author: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 02:37:14 -0800; I just entered the data I collected today into a spreadsheet it is at in excel format http://red4est.red4est.com/lrc/blower/fuelair030216.xls in staroffice format http://red4est.red4est.com/lrc/blowe; /html/mgs/2003-02/msg00316.html (9,644 bytes)

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