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- Bob Sherunckle
December 30, 2007, 2:10 pm
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it not ?
High Points / Low points.
Good
One of my mates beat a life threatening illness. That was good.
Drove a proper American car, in America. That was also good.
Had some cracking nights at the track - they were all good.
Built a garage for my Sylva - that was really good.
Bad
Two good friends through the car club have died suddenly and in a not at all
Rock n Roll fashion.
One a few weeks ago, one a few days ago.
Enjoy today and every day that follows, you don't know how many you have
left.
Try and fill the first list and ignore the second list.
There endeth the sermon etc... :-)
Re: How's your year been then ?
Bought the rangie.
Alison had/is getting treated for thyroid cancer.
Started snoking the cigars again when stressed or bored.
Good.
Back in work
Sold the rangie and bought the Celsior
Alison's treatment is going well.
The low strength patches are working this time.
More positives than negatives. Must be a good year.
--
Carl Robson
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Re: How's your year been then ?
LOL, I had forgotten about that, but it will always be welcome, and
shared with anyone close and in need of refreshment.
--
Carl Robson
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Re: How's your year been then ?
Good:
Had a great year at work, with lots of disposable cash for once.
Got my 75 back, nice and shiny.
Did 4 track days.
Did more miles on the bike than I have the past few years, but still not
enough.
Went to Portugal twice and it was bloody scorching both times.
Got to spend lots of time in nice, award winning hotels and restaurants,
with work picking up the tab.
Bad:
Not much, really.
--
SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - Hongdou GY200 - Alfa 75 TSpark
Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE - COSOC KOTL
BOTAFOT #87 - BOTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #
Re: How's your year been then ?
I have done a mayor navigation recentely, chickened out and turned back:
no visibility, low clouds, got lost, was talked home by airtrafic
control. When I landed, I wasn't proud but got congratulated by my
instructor: I had done the right thing.
It felt weird but exactely 5 days later an experienced helicopter pilot
flew the same route: clouds became lower, flying into the descending sun
made his forward visibility zero.
Flying VFR (Visual Flight Rules) he descended to 800 feet, 700 feet ,
600, 500 feet QNH (altitude compared to sea level) in order to see the
ground. The fog thickened, visibility reduced to 4 kilometers. That is
not a lot when you are at speeds of around 200 kph.
He didn't chicken out: he had the experience, had flown in far worse
weather.
Then flying at 100 knots and with ground level at 100 ft he suddenly saw
a high tension line coming up. Was he above it? Under it? ON it?
Nobody knows what happened, but the helicopter struck the ground nose
first, killing all 5 on board. Our airfield is 5 NM from the impact. We
fly over the crash site in our "extended circuit" when landing.
http://www.hetvolk.be/Article/Detail.aspx?ArticleID=DMF26122007_043
I am on your side concerning enjoying life but would add my own little
philosophie: "Whenever you have to go, be sure that you can go at peace
with yourselve and without regrets."
Yes, 2007 was a good year and yes, there were a few major
dissappointments. That's life.
All the best for 2008! May every-one receive at least 100 HP extra!
Tom De Moor
Re: How's your year been then ?
Not in fog, but a similar thing happened to my ex boss.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
xml=/news/2004/08/12/wdate12.xml
He had a bit of a life before hand though.
--
Carl Robson
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Homepage: http://www.bouncing-czechs.com
Re: How's your year been then ?
a) fool the injection system in a multitude of ways to give more fuel
b) add petrol, methanol, lpg, propane straight up the intake as it doesent
compression ignite. Very cheaply and easily.
Dont add extra diesel this way though bcos you will run over your
crankshaft!
(disclaimer - your turbo will likley go into orbit bcos they are tiny on
deseasels, but dont let it scare you!)
--
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Powerchairs www.powerchair-review.co.uk
Disabled vehicle conversion www.wheelchairdriver.com
Engines www.more-poweer.info
Re: How's your year been then ?
I know that but I am a bugger who wants those extra 100 HP as long as
there is fuel in the tanc.
Cheers!
Celebrated 2008 my own way. Took the Honda out for a spin: Brussels Ring
(the large on). 80 km in 23 min... 208 KPH. Not bad for a old car.
Looking really forward what a 600 HP Porsche 928 can do.
You don't have to hope for a good 2008. It will be a cracker for all!
Tom - who should know better ;-) - De Moor
Re: How's your year been then ?
HNY to you too :-)
I went out last night, and woke up today with no back ache for the first
time in months! I dunno what I did in the pub, but I guess it was awesome.
I drove home this morning and almost chucked the Vee into a hedge
aquaplaning on a steep, twisty hill. It was awesome fun :-)
--
Dan
Clio V6
Re: How's your year been then ?
Why not!
Its possible.
I said I could give you a 100 extra and I can. Whether a 2cv can stay in one
bit is a different matter!
I stuck a non pulsed all or nothing 140 extra on Gary Atkinsons stock
gsxr1100 (1074cc) suzuki with no worries.
And with a stronger clutch (2 diaphrams) it ran 9.01 secs at 156 on the next
run.
Down massively from its best of 11.4 at 119.
It spat most of its oil out (no retarded timing) but it survived a whole 2
seasons of this abuse without anything more than a bigger catch tank!
A 100 hit "may" be ok is set up a bit rich and retarded (sounds like a few
people I know) on a 2 cv... Lets try it!
Remember though that its 100 extra from all rpms including idle revs if you
are daft enough to try that.
--
DIY Nitrous www.nitrous.info
Powerchairs www.powerchair-review.co.uk
Disabled vehicle conversion www.wheelchairdriver.com
Engines www.more-poweer.info
Re: How's your year been then ?
Needs an extra baffle to stop the gears flinging oil straight up the
breather stack. OK a big catch tank is cheaper than an engine strip.
--
Peter Hill
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Can of worms - what every PC owner gets!
Re: How's your year been then ?
It already had a big extra one on the oil filler cap on the clutch cover.
No, the problem is that if you ignite it too early you get stupidly and
unessasarily high cylinder pressures that
a) can cause detonation (not really good!) but also you waste power and
b) you get most of the gasses blowing past the rings into the sump and
taking the oil with it. They cant push the piston down because its still on
the way up! So the gasses go past the rings. The real solution is to retard
it to almost top dead and get a faster burn and more power where it matters
while the crank is in a more advantagous position to take advantage.
Its possibe to have both cooler or around the same exhaust temperatures
(richer) without having higher peak cylinder pressures (retarded) this way
and still get big power increases from stock engines. The extra power comes
from having a much higher average cylinder pressure. In other words more
pressure where it counts - after top dead and all the way down the cylinder.
Rich and retarded allows more power from a stock engine without stressing it
any more than it already was. Set up correctly a nitrous system can give
big power increases on standard engines without giving any problems! Trouble
is most are not! So you hear about nitrous destroying engines.
Wth nitrous on a stock engine the the morepower you add the richer and the
more retarded you need to go. With especially built engines with low top
rings, lowered compression, nitrous cams, big exhaust valves and exhaust
cams, then you can safely run a bit leaner for better efficiency, but timing
still needs to be conservative!
Been there - got the tee shirt! But Garys mechanic thought he knew better
and decided the timing was fine where it was. All year! IF he had retarded
it he would have gone faster.
--
DIY Nitrous www.nitrous.info
Powerchairs www.powerchair-review.co.uk
Disabled vehicle conversion www.wheelchairdriver.com
Engines www.more-poweer.info
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