Hi Ed,
I was one of the people who replied about my car test the car alarms. It has
nothing to do with ignition or radio, what's that, just a finely tuned load
exhaust note in combination with a heavy cam. It howls pretty righteously.
Sounds like something you would hear on a track not the street.
It does raise a few eyebrows when they see this itty bitty car making all that
racket.
Here's to car alarms everywhere.
Rick
conan@ralvm8.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> A while back I recall two or three people made comments about driving
> around in their Bugeyes and setting off car alarms everywhere.
> Years ago I remember it being said that old Fords with generators
> would cause static on your radio when they drove by.
> Is this related??
> Anybody know just what it is about the early Spridgets that caused
> the alarms to go off? Generator? Ignition? Other?? Defective parts or
> just the nature of the design? Loud exhaust causing enough noise/vibration
> to rattle the alarms' motion sensors?
> Just seems like there might be a use for this kinda knowledge SOMEwhere...
> :-) Ed in NC :-)
> I remember someone on a ham radio list talking about sitting at a
> stoplight next to a GM product. Everytime he keyed his microphone the
> GM car's engine would stall. (A little shielding problem around somebody's
> computer! ;-)) Didn't do it to -all- GM cars, just this particular one.
> e in nc
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