Mayf;
I use an airspeed indicator and a pitot- static tube mounted above the
nose.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of drmayf
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 6:26 PM
To: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Today's Farkles...
Well, after telling you all how I was going to claibrate it, I
calibrated it. I measured the tire after putting 6 psig in it. Used a pi
tape to get diameter directly. My tire with 60 psig in it is 28.125
inches in diameter. I used a small growth factor for speed and
calculated the roll out diatance. It was 7.51 feet as I recall. I
divided that into 5280 feet for a mile to get the number of revolutions
of the wheel per mile and that turned out to be 703.6 revs. Then I
rolled the rear end 10 times after putting the meter into cal program
mode. In this mode it counts the pulses. For 10 revs I got 53 pulses.
Then I multiplied the 53 by 70.3 to get the total number of pulses
needed for a mile. Or 3726 pulses per mile. Original was 8000 pulses
per mile So not knowing how or what they calibrated it to, this could be
reasonable. Or not... Made the hard wire connections and have called
this good enough. You guys are gonna be so jealous you are all going to
have to have your own speedometers....
After thak farkle, I put the distributor in. Because the distributor
contains the PIP which tell the computer when to fire the ignition and
injectors, I needed to get it in correctly. Lots of tries, but finally
in where I think it should be, at least to start it. Then I put plug
wires on. Yikes, I built a monster for these....what a chore! But done
in any case.
Then I bent an old tranny dipstick, I think it is for a C4 into
semblance of shape and stuck it in. Al teast I can put fluid into the
tranny now.
Messed around some more, loaded the truck for a dump run tomorrow.
Watched the womens Open and hoped really strongly that the young amatuer
would win. Amatuers finished 2 and third. Winner made an unbelievable
shot to get a stroke on the last hole. Wonderful sand shot right into
the hole.
Well, that was my day, how about yours?
mayf
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