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| med6753:
--- Quote from: factory on July 13, 2022, 07:12:43 pm --- Erm it's a blue Sprague 500D in both, also are those trim pots the shite ones, that the plastic top drops off from? David --- End quote --- I stand corrected. But since I'm sitting I sit corrected. ;D |
| Specmaster:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 13, 2022, 05:57:42 pm --- --- Quote from: Specmaster on July 13, 2022, 05:01:26 pm --- 0 to 60 of 10 seconds, where did you get that from, I can assure you that the quoted figure for my car is 8.6 seconds to 62mph. --- End quote --- Like I said, I didn't know which model you have, and 10 is the middle of the range for the "Superb". So, 8.6? The last time I had a car that slow was the 1980s. >:D --- Quote from: Specmaster on July 13, 2022, 05:01:26 pm ---Likewise I'm not sure that a car that measures just 4.8 metres long can be called a land yacht, there are plenty of cars longer ... --- End quote --- And 'twas not me that described it as a land yacht, but 4.8 metres sounds pretty much at the upper end of car lengths, 95%ile or thereabout. In Euro-NCAP terms it would be E-segment "executive cars" the next size up from D-segment which is labelled as "large family cars". The British Parking Association recommends 4.8 metres for the length of a parking space (2.4 wide) and that includes an allowance for access to the boot, space between vehicles and so on, so your car is too big for a "standard" parking space. So Land Yacht? Probably not. Land Gin Palace? Maybe. --- End quote --- I'm not going to be drawn into a long debate here, but I'd just like to point out the following: By your own admission, you have had mid-engined cars, which by default are sports cars surely?, you also stated that you had a MGF (which was introduced in 1995), length of 3.9 metres, (assumed you had the biggest engine, 118 Kw) kerb weight of 1060Kg 0-60mph time of 6.9 seconds. Mine is only 900mm longer, 125Kw but has a kerb weight of 1634Kg and is designed to carry 5 people who are 1.93m tall, so that was the car that I needed and no more to transport my family, of which 4 of us are 1.93m in height. Given that your MGF had to move just 9Kg per 1Kw to my 13Kg per 1Kw so its not to shabby for a Skoda and 8.6 seconds 0-60 is plenty fast enough for all my needs, it can leave most cars in its wake at traffic lights. |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: TERRA Operative on July 13, 2022, 04:33:06 pm --- How about this then? Supercharger and V8. Thing went like a cut snake, was the only one of it's type in Japan at the time. ;D --- End quote --- Yeah, that's a Kenne Bell MOPAR kit; looks like the 170mm. Roughly equivalent to a 6-71; should easily be able to get 1100HP or more out of a properly-built bored & stroked small-block. Modern programmable EFI system are fecking amazing; they can run so much leaner and so much more HP/liter of fuel than we could get back in the float-bowls & jet-plates days. They can lean right out to the point of detonation and then back into the safe zone in a few revs of the engine, before you could even hear the difference by ear. And do it at any load demand, at any throttle position. Little bit of over here. ;) mnem Nitromethane: It's what's for dinner. >:D |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 13, 2022, 05:01:26 pm --- --- Quote from: Cerebus on July 13, 2022, 01:09:54 pm --- --- Quote from: Specmaster on July 13, 2022, 07:45:24 am ---Hmm, that's odd, because my car also has a turbo and I can honestly say that I have not noticed any lag in it cutting in at all. --- End quote --- Turbodiesels are better in this regard than turbo petrol engines, partially because any diesel has a flatter broader torque curve so there's less of a low spot and it's less noticeable, and one also just doesn't expect the throttle response from a diesel that one does from a petrol engine. Plus you're used to a car with a 0-60 time of 10 seconds or longer (I'm not sure exactly which model you have), whereas I'm really talking about sport models more in 6 to 7 second bracket where these things are much more noticeable. --- End quote --- 0 to 60 of 10 seconds, where did you get that from, I can assure you that the quoted figure for my car is 8.6 seconds to 62mph. That figure not such a long ago would have been cloud-cuckoo-land for such a large and heavy car, and would have been certainly the level expected of a sports car. It is a testimony to modern engineers that such times today are indeed possible, even without resorting to mnem's sticking a big V8 in the engine bay, or indeed Anders weight reduction techniques that Colin Chapman was so good at (along with chassis tweaks), and still being economical and low emissions. Likewise I'm not sure that a car that measures just 4.8 metres long can be called a land yacht, there are plenty of cars longer and nowhere in the world is that more true than America. It is true that American cars are nowhere as large as they once used to be, but they are still pretty big when compared with European cars. --- End quote --- I thought you once said you drove for a bus company back in the day? That's what I was ribbing you aboot. :-// mnem :popcorn: |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: 25 CPS on July 13, 2022, 04:47:06 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 13, 2022, 04:04:34 pm ---CT has a $20 "emissions" test which is basically this: They plug in a OBDII scanner and confirm that the ECM doesn't have any current codes and that it returns a positive for all applicable "Systems Readiness Tests". In English, this means that you didn't just park the car and clear the codes; it's been driven long enough to do the readiness tests and not throw a MIL. In many vehicles, that's as little as 5 minutes/5 miles. :palm: Pass, and you're good to go for 2 years. However... my experience has been that states which don't have a annual safety inspection tend to be a bit more gung-ho on cops checking/ticketing for safety issues like bad lights, wipers and tires, and especially loud exhaust. Such "fix-it tickets" can get very expensive very fast. :bullshit: mnem *toddles off to... somewhere.* --- End quote --- It's funny you mentioned loud exhaust. I just got off the phone to book the truck in for muffler work since it's got an exhaust leak that widened up from a faint sputtering sound to a rumble and I want that quietened down before it turns into a full out thundering roar like a freight train that the previous truck was before it got traded in and went out in a blaze of glory. I think your time in Ontario took place after DriveClean got killed. Depending on model year, it was either take the vehicle in for an ODBII scan or put it on a dynamometer and exhaust gas analyzer. The 97 Dodge Grand Caravan I had that got stolen needed the dynamometer but the 1998 model did not and that made it a pain near the end of its life since fewer and fewer places could do the dynamometer test for older vehicles. One of the scams to skirt it was to have an old all wheel drive that required the dynamometer but couldn't be put on one since they could only handle two wheel drive cars. Things got strange before Doug Ford scrapped DriveClean. Hybrids and early electric cars didn't produce any exhaust at idle since they don't idle in the traditional sense. There were newspaper articles about that. Then, you could "pass" if your vehicle still didn't meet emissions but spent above a certain threshold on repairs towards correcting the problems causing that. And in the situation of my previous truck, glitchy computer would throw ODB and codes and TPMS even though most of the fuel and evap system had been replaced and were good so it would flunk and I'd end up throwing away more money chasing phantom problems, hit the threshold and good for another couple of years. The last time it had to go through this, the shop ended up massaging it on a road test to get it into the ready state after clearing the codes, then doing the DriveClean scan immediately after in order to get it to pass. It was a relief not to have to go through that again after they finally scrapped the emissions testing for passenger vehicles and go after heavily polluting commercial and industrial vehicles. My truck with the glitchy water damaged computer wasn't the problem but there's any number of out of tune diesel trucks and construction equipent out there blowing soot that the government wasn't concerned about. Right now, I've got most of the road kit out of the used truck I picked up back in December and won't be loading it back up until after the exhaust is fixed on Monday. That gives me some time to rethink what goes in the truck and how to arrange it in the cabinets in the back. --- End quote --- Yeah; the Rav4 was brammy-spankin' new when we were there, so exempt for two years, then we were stuck on the right side of the border, but still registered in the US until COVID blew over and... :-DD It wasn't until we landed here in CT that we ever had the car inspected. It passed of course... same with our 22-year-old Saturn. mnem :phew: |
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