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I don't see anyone mention the detail that when you control ignition separately you can wait to activate it until you see you have oil pressure -...
Use wire clamps and you don't have to worry very much about exact dimensions. [MEDIA]
Not sure becoming a BMW driver is considered "good driving practice".
Survivorship bias. We think things were better quality 50 år 100 years ago because the 50 or 100 year old things we see are good quality. Nobody...
Most of the world is metric. Might be time to join in. ;)
If I remember it right, screw type blowers have far better efficiency and handle more boost than the common roots blowers do. If dragracing rules...
Depends. If you have a sensibly built multi carb setup where each cylinder draws air only from one carb you'll know which carb to adjust when you...
The coil getting hot enough to puke oil should only come from too much current running through it for too much time. How that happened when the...
Probably not an issue for old points ignitions, but electronic ignitions (and even more so electronic fuel injections etc.) can get "confused" by...
Yeah, that voltage reading is either a measuring error (digital meter confused by ignition interference for example) or an indication of a very...
Miles per gallon may be important, but smiles per gallon is importanter. :cool:
Loads of ingredients in oil. No surprise if a few show up in UV.
The problem about using the wrong oils is that it rarely punishes us right away, if at all. If we got a broken down engine the next day, the next...
The basic idea should work just fine, although I think you may want something that can move faster. Some sort of servo (look at the ones in radio...
That's still risky. Different additives affect each other, I think it's already been mentioned that the extra detergent in diesel oil reduces the...
You could always get rid of all the nitrogen. Not very practical, but effective!
Sounds like you're not getting power to the ignition system while cranking, but that's easily checked by hooking a light bulb to it, if it goes...
You don't want the coil type insert for spark plugs, you want a solid version with a collar preventing it from going in too far. With the coil the...
If we look far enough back, not everything was built to be perfectly sealed. It may not even be possible to stop all leaks without extensive...
Not sure very many local auto electric shops exists anymore. I wouldn't know where to find one.
When it comes to voltage it's mostly a matter of the insulation and distance between metal parts to be good enough to handle it, and if something...
Does that distributor use one coil to fire four cylinders?
There's nothing that will provide good filtering AND good flow in that small area. panty hose may flow well enough, but will not stop any dust,...
Yeah, if you want things to work well and be easy to tune you don't want any cylinder to draw air through multiple carbs at the same time, you...
A gauge AND a bright idiot light is probably best. The gauge to check what's going on in detail from time to time, and a light to scream DANGER...
Indeed, as far as I know all alcohols (glycol is an alcohol) burn. But glycol is far harder to get to catch fire than methanol and ethanol for...
Got an old book from the 40s, the section on coolant lists alcohol (ethanol), glycerin and two variations of glycol. They seem to mean that...
Look at the motor size on those pumps, compare to the motor size on electric wipers. Add the extra losses of going electric->vacuum->movement...
Quick cooling from high temperature (cherry red or hotter) hardens spring steel to a very hard and very fragile state. This means that a weld...
Unless you're running under water I wouldn't expect the copper to oxidize so badly it makes the cables unusable before the insulation has aged and...
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