[Healeys] ignition leads

[Richard Ewald]

Gotta love the HP calculator app for my iPhone. Built in scientific notation.
:-)
Rick
Sent from my iPhone

On May 31, 2012, at 8:35, "David Porter" <frogeye at porterscustom.com> wrote:

> I'm impressed your calculator goes out to 16 decimal places.....
> dp
>
> frogeye at porterscustom.com
>
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Richard Ewald
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 9:26 AM
> To: Ed O'Neal
> Cc: Healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] ingnition leads
>
> For those of you that are math inclined.
> Speed of light = 186,000 miles per second
> 186,000 miles per second = 982,080,000 feet per second
> 982,080,000 = 11,784,960,000 inches per second.  That is eleven billion,
> seven hundred eighty four million, nine hundred sixty thousand inches in
> one second.
> Having one spark lead 1" longer will delay the spark by
> Are you ready for this?
> Are you sure?
> *0.000000000085 seconds.*
> *Holy shit, that is going to throw your timing on that cylinder all to
> hell. </sarcasm >
> *