Forum: Proven Engine Enhancements
08-25-2007, 01:43 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 19,308
Very succinctly put sir.
He was right about...
Very succinctly put sir.
He was right about the ballcock, but missed the fact that the feedback from its position was the only 'function of control', whatever that means. There is no attempt to...
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Forum: Proven Engine Enhancements
08-24-2007, 12:29 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 19,308
Maybe it's me, perhaps I've got it all wrong. ...
Maybe it's me, perhaps I've got it all wrong.
Convince me.
Pick a simple feedback system and show me why output measurement and feedback does not form the essential part of the control system. In...
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Forum: Proven Engine Enhancements
08-23-2007, 06:02 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 19,308
On the whole, I’d rather people thought for...
On the whole, I’d rather people thought for themselves. I like to think that most people are capable of that.
Consider the humble MAF in its box, sitting next to hundreds of other MAFs in their...
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Forum: Proven Engine Enhancements
08-21-2007, 10:13 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 19,308
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Forum: Proven Engine Enhancements
08-21-2007, 04:00 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 19,308
Is this the right room for a five-minute...
Is this the right room for a five-minute argument?;)
I don't want to seem to be teaching someone who knows all about negative feedback how to suck eggs, but that is exactly what the O2 sensors...
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Forum: Technical Q & A
08-15-2007, 11:53 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,702
1.Fix/replace the EGR valve, engines don't run...
1.Fix/replace the EGR valve, engines don't run well on exhaust gases (hot nitrogen and carbon dioxide).
2. Once the engine starts seeing the right amount of oxygen, the problems that the oxygen...
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Forum: Technical Q & A
08-10-2007, 08:56 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,712
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Forum: Technical Q & A
08-10-2007, 01:13 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,302
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Forum: Technical Q & A
07-27-2007, 07:44 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 4,559
Ah! a truce :D
The sad part of it all is...
Ah! a truce :D
The sad part of it all is that we may have driven the original poster away.
We may never know whether or not his alternator charging warning light was ever illuminated, or what...
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Forum: Technical Q & A
07-27-2007, 02:26 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 4,559
Trevor,
I do not want to take up arms in a...
Trevor,
I do not want to take up arms in a variant of the solenoid wars ;)
Let us go back to what the original poster said.
Interesting, isn't it? His dash illumination is weak and/or...
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Forum: Technical Q & A
07-26-2007, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 4,559
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Forum: Technical Q & A
07-26-2007, 12:47 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 4,559
Trevor, your diagnosis does not fit Mike's...
Trevor, your diagnosis does not fit Mike's problem very well. The fault he describes is an itermittent one, with the lights coming on and off, as he puts it.
He undoubtedly has a problem...
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Forum: Technical Q & A
07-25-2007, 05:04 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 4,559
Sounds like a bad connection somewhere to me.
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Sounds like a bad connection somewhere to me.
Whew! You were lucky! You should never do this. The battery acts as the voltage regulator for the charging system, but thankfully, your car stalled,...
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Forum: Technical Q & A
07-06-2007, 07:21 AM
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Replies: 67
Views: 6,255
I'm not convinced that that's your problem, if...
I'm not convinced that that's your problem, if injector cleaner made cars perform worse in this regard then they would never sell any. If your car was overfuelling then you would have failed on the...
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Forum: Technical Q & A
07-05-2007, 07:44 AM
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Replies: 67
Views: 6,255
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Forum: Technical Q & A
06-07-2007, 07:34 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 4,088
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Forum: Technical Q & A
05-31-2007, 09:49 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 4,088
I quote what you said in the other thread
So,...
I quote what you said in the other thread
So, if there is only half the current flowing why is there triple the voltage drop?
I don't know ..... but it seems distinctly possible that there is...
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Forum: Technical Q & A
05-31-2007, 07:08 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 4,088
Funny, I thought that all the testing you did...
Funny, I thought that all the testing you did confirmed that something was definitely wrong.
To summarise, you found that you had approximately double the voltage drop when the indicator switch...
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Forum: Technical Q & A
05-21-2007, 05:03 AM
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Replies: 1,087
Views: 427,241
You can take things a little too far in the...
You can take things a little too far in the search for accuracy ;)
Without knowing anything at all about the ECU I think we can safely surmise that the TPS voltage read by the ECU is unlikely to...
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Forum: Proven Engine Enhancements
05-13-2007, 02:10 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,059
A not too unsurprising result.
For anybody...
A not too unsurprising result.
For anybody who wants to remove a lot of guesswork and have, or are building, a data gathering ECU interface that can record MAF voltage and engine rpm, they can...
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Forum: Proven Engine Enhancements
05-12-2007, 05:18 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,059
Thats true at anything less than full throttle....
Thats true at anything less than full throttle. Most of the time the driver limits the air flowing into the engine by applying less than full throttle and any other limitation of the airflow into the...
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Forum: Technical Q & A
05-08-2007, 03:29 AM
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Replies: 81
Views: 8,966
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Forum: Technical Q & A
05-07-2007, 10:45 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,260
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Forum: General SVX Babble
05-07-2007, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,666
I wouldn't.
I suppose it all depends on...
I wouldn't.
I suppose it all depends on whether you are a gambler or not.
To me, as a potential purchaser, buying a ticket for $20 when I am 99.5% sure that I'm not going to 'win', would seem...
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Forum: Technical Q & A
05-03-2007, 08:13 AM
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Replies: 81
Views: 8,966
Trevor is probably right about SBF3 being a 45...
Trevor is probably right about SBF3 being a 45 Amp fusible link; I apologise to both of you for muddying the waters over that point. You can now entirely discount my first conclusion.
The bald...
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