[Healeys] Computing speeds

[Dallas Congleton]

This brings to mind Mark Twain's observation:
"A man who owns two watches never knows what time it is."





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To: <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Computing speeds


> In a message dated 7/11/07 3:46:58 PM, healeys-request at autox.team.net 
> writes:
>
>
>> ...this one.  Providing the diameter of the tire for the
>> computation is just so the program can determine the circumference.  The
>> circumference, or distance around the tire will remain constant...
>>
> Or you could just stick your Garmin Nuvi nave system to the windshield and
> watch the exact mpg based upon the rate of change in your map coordinates.
> Monday coming home from getting a Pertronix and tune-up, the car was doing 
> a
> measured 75 mph, while the speedometer read 82 mph, with the tach showing 
> 2800
> rpm.
> Very, very nice.
>
> Cheers
> Gary
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